Factors that contribute to the maintenance or decline of relationship satisfaction

The quality of romantic relationships influences physical and mental health. However, maintaining happy healthy is challenging; relationship satisfaction declines over time, dissolution frequent. This raises the question which factors contribute to maintenance versus decline satisfaction. In this Review, we examine key that have been linked in both cross-sectional longitudinal studies. Specifically, describe how self-reported perceptions (subjective self, partner or relationship), implicit evaluations (automatic one’s assessed indirectly) objective indexes (demographics, life events, communication patterns biological indexes) relate synthesis suggests are not always most reliable predictors changes Thus, uncover why some flourish others struggle future research should solely focus on perceptions, but also evaluations, demographics, factors, their combination. challenging. Righetti et al.