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Coping Within Couples: Adjustment Two Years after Forced Geographic Relocation
Author(s) -
WAMBOLDT FREDERICK S.,
STEINGLASS PETER,
KAPLAN DENOUR ATARA
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00347.x
Subject(s) - relocation , coping (psychology) , psychology , coping behavior , social psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , computer science , programming language
Is our understanding of how individuals adjust to stressful life events increased when we analyze their adjustment in ways that recognize that these individuals are also married couples? The data used to answer this question came from a unique “natural experiment” occasioned by the forced evacuation of the Israeli settlement of Ophira under the terms of the Camp David Accords. We found that the adjustment of individuals within couples became more similar across the relocation, that is, couples adapted as a “family system.” This occurred because the coping skills of one member of the couple “drove” the adjustment of both partners.