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Financial Stress And Marital Quality: The Moderating Influence Of Couple Communication, Heather H. Kelley, Ashley B. Lebaron, E. Jeffrey Hill
Financial Stress And Marital Quality: The Moderating Influence Of Couple Communication, Heather H. Kelley, Ashley B. Lebaron, E. Jeffrey Hill
Journal of Financial Therapy
This study explores the negative relationship between financial stress and marital quality and examines couple communication as a moderator in this relationship. Using a sample of 373 married U.S. couples from the Flourishing Families Project, an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) was run to determine the influence of husbands’ and wives’ financial stress on both their own and their partner’s reports of marital quality. Results found negative associations between both actor and partner reports of financial stress and marital quality. Couple communication did not moderate the associations between husbands’ and wives’ financial stress and wives’ marital quality. However, it did …