COVID-19 and relationship quality: Emotional, paid work and organizational spheres. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research|Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022|
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16 mars 2022
- handle: 10670/1.e312eb
- issn: 1728-5305
- doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2022.res1.5
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relationship quality; COVID-19; emotions; paid work; organizational issues,Sociology and EconomicsSujets proches
Relationships, Quality of Quality of interpersonal relationships Interpersonal relations--Quality Quality of relationshipsCiter ce document
« COVID-19 and relationship quality: Emotional, paid work and organizational spheres. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research|Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022| », Elektronisches Publikationsportal der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschafte, ID : 10.1553/populationyearbook2022.res1.5
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This study contributes to the growing literature on the repercussions of the COVID- 19 pandemic for family functioning, with a special focus on couples’ relationship quality. We advance an analytical model that emphasizes the role of three main stressors of relationship quality during the pandemic: namely, emotional, paid work-related and organizational stressors. To outline such an approach, we analyze whether the onset of the pandemic – and the home confinement that followed – has reduced relationship quality in France, Italy and Spain using survey data collected in April 2020.We show that relationship quality decreased for a non-negligible part of the population, and that this result was driven mostly by the emotional stressor. These negative effects on relationship quality appeared to be relatively stable across genders, different levels of network support and countries; which suggests that the severity of the lockdown measures outweighed the traditional moderating factors usually accounted for in family research.