The scope of sustained military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan has placed great
demands on the Armed Forces of the United States, and accordingly, military families have …

Returning military service members and veterans (MSMVs) experience a wide range of
stress-related disorders in addition to social and occupational difficulties when reintegrating …

This essay extends the relational turbulence model as a framework for understanding
communication in romantic relationships. Following the relational turbulence model …

The current study applies the communication theory of resilience (CTR) to assess married
individuals' utilization of resilience communication during the first wave of the COVID-19 …

This study adopts an inductive and dyadic approach to illuminate how depression affects
romantic relationships in people's own words. Depressed couples (N= 135) responded to an …

ABSTRACT Relational Turbulence Theory proposes that when romantic partners interrupt
everyday routines in response to transitions, affective arousal will be heightened in the form …

Background More than a decade of war has strained service members and their families and
the psychological health of military spouses is a concern. This study uses data from the …

This study applied the relational turbulence model to the communication of US service
members and at-home partners following the return from a tour of duty by evaluating three …

Sexual self-disclosure is a critical component of relationship and sexual satisfaction, yet little
is known about the mechanisms that facilitate a person's engagement in sexual self …

This study examined how increased stress during the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to
relational turbulence and undermined dyadic coping. Using longitudinal data, this study also …