Understanding Everyday Relationship Work: The Development of a Relationship Maintenance Scale

Chonody, Jill M.; Killian, Mike; Gabb, Jacqui; Dunk-West, Priscilla

doi:10.18060/21155

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“…To further interrogate the impact of sexuality on relationship experience in our crossnational survey of long-term couple relationships, we devised scales of relationship quality and relationship maintenance (see Chonody, Gabb, Killian, & Dunk-West, 2018;Chonody, Killian, Gabb, & Dunk-West, 2016). Here we analyze findings from these scales alongside data from survey questions.…”

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“…It is thus important to assess the degree to which these behaviors are occurring and the impacts these have on relationship quality. We therefore created a strengths-based scale that assesses the behaviors of relationship maintenance utilizing the steps described above for the RQ scale (see Chonody et al, 2016). This Relationship Maintenance Scale (RMS) was developed to measure everyday, routine behaviors that occur in relationships.…”

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Relationship Quality and Sexuality: A Latent Profile Analysis of Long-term Heterosexual and LGB Long-term Partnerships

Chonody

Killian

Gabb

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Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

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Purpose: Drawing on survey data (N = 7,826) collected in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, this paper examines whether sexual orientation is a differentiating factor in explaining relationship quality and maintenance. Previous research suggests that sexual orientation is not significant in determining relationship satisfaction; however, these analyses have used traditional variable driven approaches, which do not provide an holistic view of the relationship by considering the unique combination of characteristics. Method: In this study, latent profile analyses were used, which is a person-centered approach that allows for identification of different types of long-term relationships. Results: Data suggested that LGB individuals had marginally higher levels of relationship quality compared to their heterosexual counterparts, and sexual orientation was also associated with differing types of long-term relationships. Discussion: These findings are interrogated in more detail, in particular, how sexual orientation is associated with types of long-term relationships and how everyday practices are associated with relationship quality.

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Relationship Quality and Sexuality: A Latent Profile Analysis of Long-term Heterosexual and LGB Long-term Partnerships

Chonody

Killian

Gabb

et al. 2020

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

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“…A mean summary ranging from 1 to 5 was constructed, with higher scores reflecting more openness in the relationship. This Openness scale has been found to have good reliability (α = .82–.84) (Baptist, Norton, Aducci, Thompson, & Cook, ) and convergent construct validity with greater happiness (Chonody, Killian, Gabb, & Dunk‐West, ). The Cronbach's alpha for this study demonstrated the scale's reliability (Black partners = .88; White partners = .92).…”

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Black–White Marriages: The Moderating Role of Openness on Experience of Couple Discrimination and Marital Satisfaction

Baptist

Craig

Nicholson

2018

J Marital Family Therapy

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This study examined how open communication between spouses may buffer against discrimination experienced by Black–White couples. Results from 178 couples analyzed using a combination of common‐fate and actor–partner interdependence models, indicated that for Black partners, marital satisfaction was not contingent on the level of openness when experiences of couple discrimination were low. When experiences of couple discrimination were high, levels of marital satisfaction were maintained among partners who reported high openness and reduced among partners who reported low openness. Moderation effects were not found for White partners. The results suggest that because Black partners are more aware of and sensitized to discrimination, White partners’ abilities to attune to their partners’ needs for support could help enhance their relationships.

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“…We therefore developed a new parsimonious relationship maintenance (RM) scale to measure behaviors that occur within a relationship and which help sustain it (Chonody et al, 2017). After assessing item performance alongside skew and kurtosis, the original sample (N = 8,132) was then randomly split into two samples in order to perform the psychometric tests (see Chonody et al, 2017).…”

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“…Moreover, how "relationship" is defined is changing and includes couples that live apart, cohabitators, and non-monogamous partnerships. However, the inclusion of diverse coupledoms, such as domestic partners, and diversity in sexual orientation and race/ethnicity are largely absent from the literature (Chonody, Killian, Gabb, & Dunk-West, 2017). This paper aims to redress this lacuna and focus on relationship maintenance in long-term relationships in later adulthood.…”

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Understanding the Role of Relationship Maintenance in Enduring Couple Partnerships in Later Adulthood

Chonody

Gabb

2018

Marriage & Family Review

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Understanding Everyday Relationship Work: The Development of a Relationship Maintenance Scale

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Relationship Quality and Sexuality: A Latent Profile Analysis of Long-term Heterosexual and LGB Long-term Partnerships

Relationship Quality and Sexuality: A Latent Profile Analysis of Long-term Heterosexual and LGB Long-term Partnerships

Black–White Marriages: The Moderating Role of Openness on Experience of Couple Discrimination and Marital Satisfaction

Understanding the Role of Relationship Maintenance in Enduring Couple Partnerships in Later Adulthood

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