Guy BodenmannUniversity of Zurich | UZH · Psychologisches Institut
Guy Bodenmann
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Introduction
Prof. Bodenmann works at the Departement of Psychology, University of Zurich. He does research in Clinical Psychology and mainly Clinical Couple and Family Research with a strong focus on stress, dyadic coping, and the interplay between couple functioning and child well-being. He has several projects in the area of basic research (experimental and longitudinal studies on couples functioning under stress), but also intervention studies (relationship education, couple therapy). One current project is 'Strengthening couples in the transition to parenthood and long-term effects on partners and children.' He developed the concept of dyadic coping within the framework of the Systemic Transactional Model (STM), the Dyadic Coping Inventory (DCI) and the Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET).
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Growing evidence that social support in times of stress is crucial for well-functioning relationships raises important questions about how intimate partners elicit specific forms of supportive behavior. To explore the process of support elicitation, we exposed either the male or female partner in a relationship to a standardized laboratory stressor...
Although active, responsive listening is widely assumed to be essential for well-functioning intimate relationships, the manner in which this important behavior might promote closeness remains unknown. To test the prediction that listening may be especially influential when partners disclose experiences of stress, we instructed 365 heterosexual cou...
Objective: Chronic physical illness affects not only patients but also their partners. Dyadic coping (DC)—the ways couples cope in dealing with a stressor such as chronic illness—has received increased attention over the last three decades. The aim of the current study was to summarize the state of research on DC in couples with chronic physical il...
Dyadic coping (DC), how couples cope together to deal with a stressor like chronic illness, has received increased attention over the last three decades. The aim of the current study was to summarize the current state of research on DC in couples. We conducted a scoping review of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies published betwee...
Chronically disabling health impairments affect an increasing number of people worldwide. In close relationships, disability is an interpersonal experience. Psychological distress is thus common in patients as well as their spouses. Dyadic coping can alleviate stress and promote adjustment in couples who face disabling health impairments. Much rese...
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The way in which parental posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) unfold in the first year after a cancer diagnosis in their child is poorly understood. The aims of this study were to identify parental PTSS trajectories and to examine couple-related predictors (dyadic coping and we-disease appraisals), sociodemographic predictors (education...
Background
Technology has become an integral part of our everyday life, and its use to manage and study health is no exception. Romantic partners play a critical role in managing chronic health conditions as they tend to be a primary source of support.
Objective
This study tests the feasibility of using commercial wearables to monitor couples’ uni...
Introduction
Many adolescents are in their first romantic relationship; at the same time, depressive symptoms generally increase during this developmental stage. In adults, equity of support in romantic relationships is associated with less depressive symptoms—especially in female partners, who are generally on “the losing side” of support transact...
Sexuality is integral to most romantic relationships. Through stress spillover, however, factors such as individually experienced stress outside of the relationship (i.e., extradyadic stress) can negatively impact sexuality. In this study, we explored how a possible (mis)matching of both partners' levels of extradyadic stress is related to sexual a...
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Recent findings suggest that individuals tend to engage in masturbation more frequently when experiencing elevated levels of psychological stress, and there appears to be distinguishable effects on stress response based on clitoral and vaginal stimulation. In this concurrent mixed-method study, we aimed to investigate this association in...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals (hereafter people with minoritized sexual orientation and/or gender identities) have limited legal rights and access to resources because of their marginalized status in society. These limitations are associated with notable health disparities and increase experiences of minority stress. For those...
In couples dealing with health problems, we-disease appraisals can influence dyadic coping strategies to alleviate distress. This study describes the development and validation of a self-report scale to assess we-disease appraisals of health problems. The newly developed We-Disease Questionnaire (WDQ) was administered in three samples: parents of c...
Emerging adults (EAs) are at high risk for mental health challenges and frequently reach out to their parents for support. Yet little is known about how parents help emerging adults manage and cope with daily stressors and which strategies help and which hinder EA mental health. In this cross-sectional pilot study of students at a 2-and 4-year coll...
Globally, one out of three people suffer from a mental health issue during their lifetime. In romantic relationships, impaired mental health does not only affect the individual but also their partner and therefore needs to be coped with dyadically. In this systematic review, we summarize research examining dyadic coping (DC) in the context of menta...
Einführung in die klassischen Lerntheorien Umfassend und anschaulich werden in diesem Lehrbuch die lerntheoretischen Grundlagen unter Einbezug neuer Forschungsbefunde vorgestellt: die Klassische und Operante Konditionierung, neuere behaviorale Ansätze sowie kognitive, soziale und gestaltpsychologische Modelle. Diese bilden unter anderem das lernthe...
BACKGROUND
Technology has become an integral part of our everyday life, and its use to manage and study health is no exception. Romantic partners play a critical role in managing chronic health conditions as they tend to be a primary source of support.
OBJECTIVE
This study tests the feasibility of using commercial wearables to monitor couples’ uni...
Parent couples are involved in a coparenting bond and in a romantic relationship. Research on couple therapy has mainly explored the impact of couple therapy on romantic relationships; however, little is known about how couple therapy affects the coparenting relationship. Self-reports of positive and negative coparenting and observed emotional beha...
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Due to an aging population, the number of persons living with dementia (PWDs) is increasing worldwide. Romantic partners, as informal caregivers (IC) of PWDs, are often adopting additional tasks. The concept of dyadic coping (DC) addresses how couples cope with stress together. For dyadic coping to be successful, efforts of both partners...
Stress, den wir als Individuen im Alltag erleben (z. B. mit Kindern, im Beruf oder in der Freizeit) geht mit negativen Auswirkungen in verschiedenen Aspekten der Partnerschaft, wie beispielsweise der Sexualität, einher (auch «Spill-Over-Prozess» genannt). Obwohl bei partnerschaftlichen und sexuellen Problemen im (paar-)therapeutischen Setting oft z...
Both parental psychological well-being (e.g., depressive symptoms) and parental relationship functioning (e.g., negative communication) are common parental risk factors for dysfunctional parenting. The spillover process from these parental characteristics to dysfunctional parenting is assumed to be amplified by parental stress, which is particularl...
It is well known that although relationship external stressors can harm couples, dyadic coping behavior can buffer the negative effects of stress. Thus far, however, less is known about how vocally encoded stress (i.e., f0) might affect the stress-coping process in couples during an interaction. Therefore, the goal of the current study was to compa...
This randomized, wait list-controlled trial aimed to evaluate the efficacy of the cognitive behavioural therapy-based online e-learning course stressfit for better stress management and the cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia-based online course SweetDreams for coping with insomniac problems. The course modules offer state of the art psychoe...
Repeated admission of children and adolescents to psychiatric inpatient care is an undesirable health care outcome, not only because it is preceded in most cases by acute crises, but also due to the severe distress for patients and their families as well as the high societal costs associated with inpatient care. With the increasing efforts for earl...
Attachment security and dependency play a decisive role for children’s mental health. From a family systems perspective, reciprocal effects of dyadic attachment to each parent within the same family on child symptomatology may well offer additional insights in developmental processes as parents and children influence each other consistently. This s...
Dyadic coping-based gratitude (DC-G) refers to the reaction of appreciation and thankfulness in response to received problem-focused and emotion-focused positive dyadic coping (DC) behaviors by the partner. The actor-partner interdependent mediation model was used to test the mediating role of DC-G between DC and relationship satisfaction in a purp...
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, individuals report psychological distress associated with the “new normal”—social distancing, financial hardships, and increased responsibilities while working from home. Given the interpersonal nature of stress and coping responses between romantic partners, based on the systemic transac�tio...
Recent technological advances have made the remote recording of interactions and the automatic extraction of nonverbal, paraverbal, and verbal behavioral cues from the videos possible. The development of computer programs that can replace human observational coders is imminent. The increasing availability of such new technologies, accompanied by th...
The relevance of dyadic coping (DC), a concept how couples cope with stressors together, has been established in different contexts (e.g., daily hassles, mental and physical health) and is related to different outcomes such as relationship satisfaction, relationship quality and stability, psychological well-being, and child behavior. The current sy...
How parents cope with stress as a couple (i.e., dyadic coping [DC]) is related to mental health problems in children. But little is known about DC within first-time parents and child mental health problems in early childhood. This study investigated subgroups in DC trajectories across the transition to parenthood (TTP) and examined subgroup differe...
Even though poor mental health is commonly associated with impaired sexual function, studies have found increased rates of masturbation in women with symptoms of depression and anxiety. This study hypothesizes that female masturbation is associated with psychological strain and functions as a reliable form of self-soothing behavior. Data forms part...
Intimacy and sexuality are important basic human needs, the satisfaction of which increases general well-being and quality of life. Regardless of age and gender, most sexual encounters take part in stable romantic relationships. However, stress is often seen as one of the main causes couples are sexually unsatisfied, and several studies show negati...
Background
Intimate social relationships improve individual health and longevity, an effect which is supposed to be mediated through stress-sensitive endocrine and immune mechanisms in response to positive interaction behavior. On a neuroendocrine level, oxytocin (OT) buffers stress responses, modulates social attachment behavior and has been assoc...
Couples generally manage chronic diseases together and the management takes an emotional toll on both patients and their romantic partners. Consequently, recognizing the emotions of each partner in daily life could provide an insight into their emotional well-being in chronic disease management. Currently, the process of assessing each partner's em...
Mental health conditions are increasing worldwide. In close relationships, mental health conditions do not only affect the patient, but also their partner. Dyadic coping (DC) – the way couples cope with stressors such as mental illness – has received growing attention over the last three decades. This systematic review aims to summarize the state o...
It has been demonstrated that stress, experienced outside of a relationship, can spill into a relationship and cross over during interactions from one partner to the other. However, the mechanism of how stress cross over in real-time between partners is still unknown. To overcome this limitation, we invited 189 couples (N = 378 individuals) for two...
It has been demonstrated that stress, experienced outside of a relationship, can spill into a relationship and cross over during interactions from one partner to the other. However, the mechanism of how stress cross over in real-time between partners is still unknown. To overcome this limitation, we invited 189 couples (N = 378 individuals) for two...
The study of romantic partners’ experiences of stress and coping has exploded with nearly 11,000 empirical studies on this topic within the past two decades alone. Despite its prevalence, researchers, clinicians, and policy makers alike are questioning how inclusive is our current knowledge base on partners’ stress and coping? The purpose of this r...
Depressionen gehören zu den häufigsten psychischen Störungen und betreffen entsprechend auch viele Personen in einer festen Paarbeziehung. Während Beziehungen auf der einen Seite einen Schutzfaktor darstellen, sind sie andererseits von der Depression ebenfalls betroffen und das Paar ist in hohem Maße herausgefordert. Das Buch möchte ein fundiertes...
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Although most people in romantic relationships co-sleep, biosocial modulators of sleep quality have only recently come into focus. Oxytocin (OT) might be one such modulator, as it had been shown to increase social attachment and safety. We investigated the association between everyday life couple interaction and sleep quality, as well a...
Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Bisherige Befunde zeigen, dass Pornographienutzung einen Zusammenhang mit der Zufriedenheit in der Paarsexualität hat. Fragestellung: Um diesen Zusammenhang besser zu verstehen, soll diese Studie aufzeigen, welche Faktoren dabei von Bedeutung sind. Methode: Dafür wurden 18- bis 60-Jährige in einer Beziehu...
Recently, there has been growing interest in stress and coping strategies from a relational perspective. Researchers recognize the importance of a partner’s coping strategy in terms of relationship satisfaction and a relational sense of well-being. The aim of the article is to present the results of work on the Polish validation of the Dyadic Copin...
Zweck: Der vorliegende Bericht beschreibt den Ablauf sowie die Ergebnisse und Schlussfolgerungen der Studie «Auswirkungen einer Sehbeeinträchtigung auf die Partnerschaft und partnerschaftliche Ressourcen zu deren Bewältigung», welche im Rahmen des SELODY-Projekts (Sensory Loss in the Dyadic Context) entstand. Hintergrund: Sehbeeinträchtigungen gehö...
How romantic partners interact with each other during a conflict influences how they feel at the end of the interaction and is predictive of whether the partners stay together in the long term. Hence understanding the emotions of each partner is important. Yet current approaches that are used include self-reports which are burdensome and hence limi...
Many processes in psychology are complex, such as dyadic interactions between two interacting partners (e.g., patient-therapist, intimate relationship partners). Nevertheless, many basic questions about interactions are difficult to investigate because dyadic processes can be within a person and between partners, they are based on multimodal aspect...
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, individuals report psychological distress associated with the “new normal”—social distancing, financial hardships, and increased responsibilities while working from home. Given the interpersonal nature of stress and coping responses between romantic partners, based on the systemic transaction...
Different forms of dyadic coping are associated with positive outcomes in partner relationships, yet little is known about dyadic coping in parent-child relationships. The current research explored the association between parent-child dyadic coping and children’s quality of life in 12–18-year old children with a chronic disease (i.e., cystic fibros...
In dyadic interaction, a verbal focus on one individual (“you-talk”, “I-talk”), rather than on the couple (“we-talk”) has predominantly been linked to dysfunctional relationship processes. However, context differences in these links have not yet been systematically examined. Is it functional to asymmetrically focus on one partner during support int...
Research outside of India suggests that romantic partners can help one another cope with these stressors by engaging in dyadic coping; however, to date, there lacks an empirically validated self-report measure to assess perceptions of one’s own and their partner’s behaviors in the Indian cultural context. While the Dyadic Coping Inventory has been...
Many processes in psychology are complex, such as dyadic interactions between two interacting partners (e.g. patient-therapist, intimate relationship partners). Nevertheless, many basic questions about interactions are difficult to investigate because dyadic processes can be within a person and between partners, they are based on multimodal aspects...
How romantic partners interact with each other during a conflict influences how they feel at the end of the interaction and is predictive of whether the partners stay together in the long term. Hence understanding the emotions of each partner is important. Yet current approaches that are used include self-reports which are burdensome and hence limi...
Introduction: For couples, depression can position diagnosed partners to receive dyadic coping and mates to primarily provide support. We examine whether inequities in dyadic coping covary with depressive symptoms. Methods: Using data from 62 mixed-gender couples with one partner diagnosed with major depression (60% female), we computed differences...
Relationship science contends that the quality of couples’ communication predicts relationship satisfaction over time. Most studies testing these links have examined between-person associations, yet couple dynamics are also theorized at the within-person level: For a given couple, worsened communication is presumed to predict deteriorations in futu...
Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Befunde zeigen, dass Pornographiekonsum innerhalb einer Partnerschaft im Zusammenhang steht mit sexueller Zufriedenheit. Bisher wurde aber kaum berücksichtigt, ob alleiniger oder gemeinsamer Konsum dabei ausschlaggebend sind und welche Bedeutung der sexuellen Kommunikation zukommt. Fragestellung: Diese St...
When experiencing personal distress, people usually expect their romantic partner to be supportive. However, when put in a situation to provide support, people may at times (still) be struggling with issues of their own. This interdependent nature of dyadic coping interactions as well as potential spillover effects is mirrored in the state-of-the-a...
Because emotional exchanges are central in couple interactions, individual competences to manage one’s own emotions and those of others are important to develop a good relational intimacy with a romantic partner over time. It is assumed that individual differences in attachment orientation influence the development of emotional competences and inti...
Wir alle wünschen uns die große Liebe. Und wer sie gefunden hat, hofft, dass sie ein Leben lang hält. Doch die hohen Trennungs- und Scheidungsraten zeigen: Allzu oft schwindet die Liebe, und die Beziehung zerbricht. Doch Paare können etwas dagegen tun: Wie eine Pflanze bedarf die Liebe der Pflege. Es gilt, sich für die Beziehung zu engagieren, sich...
Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Um die Einflüsse des Pornographiekonsums auf die Partnerschaft zu verstehen, werden Daten zum Erleben des eigenen und partnerschaftlichen Konsums benötigt. Fragestellung: Diese Studie soll einen Überblick über Häufigkeit, Einstellung, Motivation und Konsequenzen des Pornographiekonsums bei heterosexuellen...
For married individuals living in Pakistan, stress within their relationship has emerged as a major source of marital conflicts and even relationship dissolution. However, research based on the systemic transactional model of dyadic coping (DC) suggests partners' use of coping strategies may help in buffering these devastating effects of stress. Th...
When experiencing personal distress, people usually expect their romantic partner to be supportive. However, when put in a situation to provide support, people may at times (still) be struggling with issues of their own. This interdependent nature of dyadic coping interactions as well as potential spillover effects are mirrored in the state-of-the-...
Across the world, millions of couples get married each year. One of the strongest predictors of whether partners will remain in their relationship is their reported satisfaction. Marital satisfaction is commonly found to be a key predictor of both individual and relational well-being. Despite its importance in predicting relationship longevity, the...
Emotionen treten in den seltensten Fällen isoliert, sondern meist im Kontext sozialer Interaktionen auf. Folglich ist die Regulation von Emotionen ein Kernthema in Partnerschaften. Eine funktionale Emotionsregulation im Paar hat sich als ein wichtiger Prädiktor sowohl von individuellem Wohlbefinden als auch von Partnerschaftsqualität erwiesen. Eine...
Background
Couples and families often seek therapy to deal with relational distress, which is a result of external or internal factors of the relationship. Two approaches are acknowledged to be most effective in dealing with relationship distress or psychological disorders in couples: (a) cognitive behavioral couple therapy with new directions (CBC...
Stress is an important factor in most models of individual psychopathology (see diathesis–stress model). However, the role of stress in close relationships is often neglected in understanding psychopathology and often considered as interpersonal tensions that originate inside the relationship. Research on stress as a dyadic construct highlights the...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt die bisherigen empirischen Befunde zur Sprachgrundfrequenz (f 0 ) in Paargesprächen vor und untersucht, wie sich die f 0 nach einer experimentellen Stressinduktion im anschließenden spontanen Gespräch zwischen den Partner_innen verändert, wie die f 0 mit der verbalen Stressäußerung zusammenhängt und wi...
Stress is an important factor in most models of individual psychopathology (see diathesis–stress model). However, the role of stress in close relationships is often neglected in understanding psychopathology and often considered as interpersonal tensions that originate inside the relationship. Research on stress as a dyadic construct highlights the...