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Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships
Authors:Nickola C. Overall  Chloe Howard  Danny Osborne  Paula R. Pietromonaco  Nicole Satherley  Chris G. Sibley
Affiliation:1. School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;2. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic produced multiple stressors that risk relationship conflict and dissatisfaction. We extended prior studies that yielded inconsistent effects of the pandemic on relationships by using propensity score matching to (1) compare levels of relationship conflict and satisfaction during the pandemic (pandemic group; N = 7268) to similar people immediately before the pandemic (matched control group; N = 7268), and (2) compare pandemic groups facing different types of restrictions, beginning with lockdowns involving household isolation to returning to normal life. Results reveal that relationship conflict increased and relationship satisfaction decreased in response to the pandemic, but these effects were very small and primarily occurred in the initial stages of the pandemic when lockdown involved household isolation. The results add to evidence of resilience in personal and relationship well-being in 2020, but also indicate the importance of understanding the effects of varying pandemic-related conditions across the years of the pandemic.
Keywords:close relationships  lockdowns  pandemic restrictions  propensity score matching  relationship conflict  relationship satisfaction
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