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, satisfaction) among a large sample of male dyads (N = 934 individuals, N = 467 dyads). Results suggested that there are novel actor, partner, and similarity effects that imply unique pathways to relationship well-being for male couples. These results are discussed in light of future clinical and empirical efforts. [NCT03186534 – 6/12/2017; NCT03284541 – 6/23/2017].
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Several factors influence transformation of motivation, including how relationship-oriented a person is. However, for the purposes of this study, we focus our review on health/health behaviors (e.g., substance use) relevant to a romantic relationship.
This approach differs from other paradigms (e.g., Judd et al., 2001) in that difference scores are retained at the couple level (i.e., both partners within the couple have the same score, valence is not retained). This is a common procedure for handling dyadic dissimilarity when using a structural equation APIM framework.
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The research leading to these results received funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01AA024065, PI: M. Newcomb) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (DP2DA042417, PI: M. Newcomb). REDCap is supported at the Feinberg School of Medicine by the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science (NUCATS) Institute, which is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR001422, PI: D. Lloyd-Jones). Madison Smith’s time was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (F32DA057128, PI: Smith). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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Smith, M.S., Newcomb, M.E. Substance Use and Relationship Functioning Among Young Male Couples. Arch Sex Behav 52, 2097–2110 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02627-1
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