Melissa A. Curran

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Melissa A Curran, Melissa Anne Curran, Melissa Curran
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96 papers · 1,939 citations · H-index 25

PAPERS

Heterosexist discrimination and relational sacrifice of same‐sex couples
20231 citationsauthor #3
Editorial Synthesis for 2 in 2023: A Collaboration Between IARR’s Two Journals: Recognizing the Need for Greater Inclusivity in Relationship Science
202316 citationsauthor #1
More Than a Score? Indirect Associations Between Credit Score and Romantic Relationship Quality in Emerging Adulthood
20233 citationsauthor #4
Awareness and equity of behavioral sacrifice and same‐sex relationship quality: Heterosexist discrimination as a distal predictor
20232 citationsauthor #3
The Sooner, the Better? Couples' First Financial Discussion, Relationship Quality, and Financial Conflict in Emerging Adulthood
202210 citationsauthor #3
Less Than Fully Honest: Financial Deception in Emerging Adult Romantic Relationships
202215 citationsauthor #4
Talk is cheap: Parent financial socialization and emerging adult financial well‐being
202237 citationsauthor #2
In memoriam of Emily Butler, 1963–2023
20220 citationsauthor #3
Sexual Minority Stressors and Intimate Partner Violence Among Same-Sex Couples: Commitment as a Resource
202210 citationsauthor #2
Spenders and Tightwads Among Newlyweds: Perceptions of Partner Financial Behaviors and Relational Well-Being
202211 citationsauthor #5
A systematic review of relationship sacrifices from 2002 to 2021: Moving toward inclusivity
20228 citationsauthor #1
The ABC-X’s of Stress among U.S. Emerging Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Relationship Quality, Financial Distress, and Mental Health
20227 citationsauthor #3
Dear Solomon, dear Prudence: Using student written advice responses to demonstrate and teach theory application
20210 citationsauthor #3
Tripartite Commitment and Relationship Quality: A Person-Centered Approach
20212 citationsauthor #4
External stressors and trajectories of marital quality during the early years of Chinese marriage: Buffering effects of resources at multiple ecological levels
20215 citationsauthor #2
Couple-Level Attachment Styles, Finances, and Marital Satisfaction: Mediational Analyses Among Young Adult Newlywed Couples
202112 citationsauthor #2
Financial behaviors, financial satisfaction, and goal attainment among college-educated young adults: A mediating analysis with latent change scores
202116 citationsauthor #2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Couples, Families, and Finance
20213 citationsauthor #1
Parent Financial Socialization Scale: Development and preliminary validation.
202132 citationsauthor #2
Finances, depressive symptoms, destructive conflict, and coparenting among lower-income, unmarried couples: A two-wave, cross-lagged analysis.
202124 citationsauthor #1
From Piggy Banks to Significant Others: Associations Between Financial Socialization and Romantic Relationship Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood
20217 citationsauthor #4
Coping profiles in the context of global environmental threats: a person-centered approach
202118 citationsauthor #3
Constructive and destructive interparental conflict, parenting, and coparenting alliance.
202048 citationsauthor #3
The Evolution of Un Abrazo Para La Familia: Implications for Survivors of Cancer
20201 citationsauthor #2
Levels and volatility in daily relationship quality: Roles of daily sacrifice motives
202013 citationsauthor #5
Pathways Linking Parental Relationship Changes, Depressive Symptoms, and Parenting Behaviors to Young Children's Development
202010 citationsauthor #5
Traditional Gender Ideology, Work Family Conflict, and Marital Quality among Chinese Dual-Earner Couples: A Moderated Mediation Model
202038 citationsauthor #3
Cultural Similarities and Differences in Relationship Goals in Intercultural Romantic Couples
202016 citationsauthor #3
Financial Stressors as Catalysts for Relational Growth: Bonadaptation Among Lower-Income, Unmarried Couples
202027 citationsauthor #2
Financial Stressors as Catalysts for Relational Growth: Bonadaptation Among Lower-Income, Unmarried Couples
20200 citationsauthor #2
Traditional Gender Ideology, Work Family Conflict, and Marital Quality among Chinese Dual-Earner Couples: A Moderated Mediation Model
20201 citationsauthor #3
Romantic Attachment Orientations, Financial Behaviors, and Life Outcomes Among Young Adults: A Mediating Analysis of a College Cohort
202030 citationsauthor #2
Understanding Child Behavior Problems in Young Children with Previously Incarcerated Fathers: Parents’ Depressive Symptoms, Relationship Quality, and Coparenting
20205 citationsauthor #2
A theoretical model for understanding relationship functioning in intercultural romantic couples
20208 citationsauthor #4
Financial behaviors and adult identity: Mediating analyses of a college cohort
201919 citationsauthor #2
Pathways from Financial Knowledge to Relationship Satisfaction: The Roles of Financial Behaviors, Perceived Shared Financial Values with the Romantic Partner, and Debt
201954 citationsauthor #4
Pregnancy intentions and family functioning among low-income, unmarried couples: Person-centered analyses.
201911 citationsauthor #2
Interpersonal effects of health-related social control: Positive and negative influence, partner health transformations, and relationship quality
201932 citationsauthor #3
Heteronormativity in the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Young People
201959 citationsauthor #4
Enacting Social Control to Encourage Healthier Partner Diet and Exercise Behavior: Considering the Roles of Constraints and Topic Avoidance
20193 citationsauthor #4
Pathways from Financial Knowledge to Relationship Satisfaction: The Roles of Financial Behaviors, Perceived Shared Financial Values with the Romantic Partner, and Debt
20190 citationsauthor #4
Introduction to the special issue
20183 citationsauthor #2
Part I: Marital and intimate relations Intimacy Behaviors and Relationship Satisfaction for Cohabitors: Intimate Sacrifices Are Not Always Beneficial
20180 citationsauthor #2
Young Adults’ Life Outcomes and Well-Being: Perceived Financial Socialization from Parents, the Romantic Partner, and Young Adults’ Own Financial Behaviors
201875 citationsauthor #1
Oregon's Familias en Acción replicates benefits for underserved cancer co‐survivors through Un Abrazo Para la Familia
20186 citationsauthor #2
Differentiating environmental concern in the context of psychological adaption to climate change
2018246 citationsauthor #4
Volatility in daily relationship quality
201836 citationsauthor #4
Young Adults’ Life Outcomes and Well-Being: Perceived Financial Socialization from Parents, the Romantic Partner, and Young Adults’ Own Financial Behaviors
20180 citationsauthor #1
Gender, Sacrifices, and Variability in Commitment: A Daily Diary Study of Pregnant Heterosexual Cohabitors and their Partners
20179 citationsauthor #4
Patterns of Interparental Conflict, Parenting, and Children’s Emotional Insecurity: A Person-Centered Approach
201736 citationsauthor #4
Daily Relationship Quality in Same-Sex Couples: Attachment and Sacrifice Motives
201718 citationsauthor #3
Reasons Not to Marry Survey
20160 citationsauthor #1
Relational Sacrifices about Intimate Behavior and Relationship Quality for Expectant Cohabitors
201612 citationsauthor #1
Family-Focused Preventive Interventions With Cancer Cosurvivors: A Call to Action.
201618 citationsauthor #4
Intimacy Behaviors and Relationship Satisfaction for Cohabitors: Intimate Sacrifices Are Not Always Beneficial
201610 citationsauthor #2
The calm after the storm
201632 citationsauthor #3
Queer Theory, Intersectionality, and LGBT‐Parent Families: Transformative Critical Pedagogy in Family Theory
201677 citationsauthor #3
Gender, Sacrifices, and Variability in Commitment: A Daily Diary Study of Pregnant Heterosexual Cohabitors and their Partners
20160 citationsauthor #4
Gender, Emotion Work, and Relationship Quality: A Daily Diary Study
20150 citationsauthor #1
Reasons to Delay Marriage to Current Partner Scale
20150 citationsauthor #2
Gender, Emotion Work, and Relationship Quality: A Daily Diary Study
201557 citationsauthor #1
Un Abrazo Para La Familia: An Evidenced-Based Rehabilitation Approach in Providing Cancer Education to Low-SES Hispanic Co-Survivors
201411 citationsauthor #2
Daily Hassles Scale--Short Version
20140 citationsauthor #2
Working to Change the Relationship Measure
20140 citationsauthor #2
Cohabitors’ Reasons for Living Together, Satisfaction with Sacrifices, and Relationship Quality
201419 citationsauthor #2
Identity Style and Marriage for Pregnant Cohabitors as They Begin the Transition to Parenthood
20140 citationsauthor #1
Reflections on Family Science Education: The Importance of Technology, Experience, and Diversity in the Classroom
20142 citationsauthor #4
Daily Positive Relationship Quality Composite Measure
20140 citationsauthor #2
Scale of Daily Sacrifices
20140 citationsauthor #2
Good days, bad days
201377 citationsauthor #2
Un Abrazo Para La Familia: An Evidenced-Based Rehabilitation Approach in Providing Cancer Education to Low-SES Hispanic Co-Survivors
20130 citationsauthor #2
A daily diary study
201394 citationsauthor #2
Un Abrazo Para La Familia: Providing low‐income Hispanics with education and skills in coping with breast cancer and caregiving
201327 citationsauthor #3
Information and support for co-survivors during or after cancer treatment: Consideration of Un Abrazo Para la Familia as a model for family-focused intervention in cancer rehabilitation
20138 citationsauthor #2
Marital Commitment and Perceptions of Fairness in Household Chores
201331 citationsauthor #2
Daily hassles and uplifts: a diary study on understanding relationship quality.
201275 citationsauthor #3
Relational sacrifices in romantic relationships
201251 citationsauthor #2
Influences of Childhood Abuse on Parenting Perspectives of Pregnant Cohabitors
20128 citationsauthor #3
Associations Between Marital Meaning and Reasons to Delay Marriage for Young Adults in Romantic Relationships
201225 citationsauthor #2
Identity Style During the Transition to Adulthood: The Role of Family Communication Patterns, Perceived Support, and Affect
201216 citationsauthor #3
Spirituality, Sacrifice, and Relationship Quality for Expectant Cohabitors
201113 citationsauthor #2
“Me” and “We”: How Expectant Cohabitors Talk about Economic Difficulty
20113 citationsauthor #2
“Like a Mexican Wedding”
201110 citationsauthor #6
Understanding marital conflict 7 years later from prenatal representations of marriage.
201124 citationsauthor #1
Daily hassles, sacrifices, and relationship quality for pregnant cohabitors
201123 citationsauthor #2
Considerations of culture and social class for families facing cancer: the need for a new model for health promotion and psychosocial intervention.
201138 citationsauthor #3
Identity Style and Relationship Quality for Pregnant Cohabitating Couples During the Transition to Parenthood
201110 citationsauthor #2
Partner commitment, gender, and depressive symptoms for expectant cohabitors
20101 citationsauthor #1
An Exploratory Study of the Meaning of Marriage for African Americans
201032 citationsauthor #1
How Resources (or Lack Thereof) Influence Advice Seeking on Psychological Well-being and Marital Risk: Testing Pathways of the Lack of Financial Stability, Support, and Strain
201015 citationsauthor #1
Sacrifices for the Partner and Relational Commitment During the Transition to Parenthood for Pregnant, Unmarried, Cohabitors: A Pilot Study
20090 citationsauthor #2
Effects of participation in a longitudinal study of dating
200910 citationsauthor #2
Representations of Marriage and Expectations of Parenthood: Predictors of Supportive Coparenting for First-Time Parents
200918 citationsauthor #1
How representations of the parental marriage predict marital emotional attunement during the transition to parenthood.
200635 citationsauthor #1
How representations of the parental marriage predict marital quality between partners during the transition to parenthood
20041 citationsauthor #1
Illusory Control as a Function of Motivation for a Specific Outcome in a Chance-Based Situation
199819 citationsauthor #3

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1998 19 citations

2004 1 citations

2006 35 citations

2009 28 citations

2010 48 citations

2011 121 citations

2012 175 citations

2013 237 citations

2014 32 citations

2015 57 citations

2016 149 citations

2017 63 citations

2018 366 citations

2019 178 citations

2020 197 citations

2021 119 citations

2022 98 citations

2023 22 citations

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