The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect couples worldwide who vary in sociocultural values, norms, and expectations, but most work examining connections between pandemic-related stress and couples' relationships has been conducted in the US or similar Western cultures. Guided by the vulnerability-stress-adaptation (VSA) model (Karney & Bradbury, 1995), we present a revised theoretical framework for evaluating how sociocultural contexts may moderate the ways in which pandemic-related stress risks poor couple functioning or promotes couples' resilience. We briefly describe the theoretical model and associated relationship research in the pandemic context and then evaluate how two illustrative sociocultural contexts (country/culture and race/ethnicity) might impact pandemic-related external (disease risks and stress exposure) and internal (psychological distress and felt belonging) stress and adaptive relationship functioning. Our review reveals that much remains to be learned about how couples embedded in different sociocultural contexts have adapted over the course of the global pandemic and highlights key areas for future research.

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社会文化背景如何影响 COVID-19 大流行对夫妻关系的影响

COVID-19 大流行继续影响着世界各地社会文化价值观、规范和期望各异的夫妇，但大多数研究大流行相关压力与夫妻关系之间关系的工作都是在美国或类似的西方文化中进行的。在脆弱性-压力-适应（VSA）模型（Karney & Bradbury，1995）的指导下，我们提出了一个修订后的理论框架，用于评估社会文化背景如何缓和流行病相关压力对夫妻功能不良的风险或促进夫妻的复原力。我们简要描述了大流行背景下的理论模型和相关关系研究，然后评估了两种说明性的社会文化背景（国家/文化和种族/民族）可能如何影响与大流行相关的外部（疾病风险和压力暴露）和内部（心理困扰和压力）。归属感）压力和适应性关系的功能。我们的回顾表明，关于处于不同社会文化背景的夫妇如何适应全球大流行的过程，还有很多有待了解，并强调了未来研究的关键领域。