Substance Use and Relationship Functioning Among Young Male Couples.

ABSTRACT: Research shows that, for different sex couples, individual levels of substance use are deleterious for relationship quality (e.g., satisfaction, intimate partner aggression), whereas dyadic concordance is usually protective. However, there has been no research on these effects among male couples, even though they show increased risk for substance use and certain indices of relationship distress (e.g., intimate partner aggression) compared to different sex couples. Male partners also display distinct similarity patterns and norms surrounding substance use, suggesting that there might be unique effects of substance use on relationship quality among this population. We conducted actor-partner interdependence models of substance use on relationship quality (intimate partner aggression, satisfa

SUBMITTER: Smith MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11250655 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature