122-01: A Tale of Two Samples: Predictors of Relational Bonadaptation After a Financial Stressor Among Lower-Income, Unmarried Couples

The focus of this symposium is on the complex link that finances have within complex romantic relationships. The papers within the symposium investigate married individuals; low-income, unmarried couples; and young/emerging adults in committed relationships. Finances are often influenced by social and external factors (e.g., macroeconomic forces or social constraints), and identifying the ways individuals and couples react to financial constructs (e.g., stressors or behaviors) within varying environments will strengthen the ability of practitioners to support individuals, couples, and families. Our goal is to facilitate enhanced understanding of how financial influences and constructs are associated with relational characteristics and outcomes.

Objectives

- To analyze how financial constructs are associated with financial and relational outcomes.
- To illustrate associations using different datasets, samples, and analytic techniques. 
- To provide information that family educators can use when they are working with individuals, couples, and families specific to financial constructs and relationship characteristics. 

Keywords: relationships, economics, quantitative methodology

122-02: Perceived Shared Financial Values: Does It Matter What I Do and What I Think My Partner Does?

The focus of this symposium is on the complex link that finances have within complex romantic relationships. The papers within the symposium investigate married individuals; low-income, unmarried couples; and young/emerging adults in committed relationships. Finances are often influenced by social and external factors (e.g., macroeconomic forces or social constraints), and identifying the ways individuals and couples react to financial constructs (e.g., stressors or behaviors) within varying environments will strengthen the ability of practitioners to support individuals, couples, and families. Our goal is to facilitate enhanced understanding of how financial influences and constructs are associated with relational characteristics and outcomes.

Objectives

- To analyze how financial constructs are associated with financial and relational outcomes.
- To illustrate associations using different datasets, samples, and analytic techniques. 
- To provide information that family educators can use when they are working with individuals, couples, and families specific to financial constructs and relationship characteristics. 

Keywords: relationships, economics, quantitative methodology

122-03: Predicting Financial Infidelity in a National Sample

The focus of this symposium is on the complex link that finances have within complex romantic relationships. The papers within the symposium investigate married individuals; low-income, unmarried couples; and young/emerging adults in committed relationships. Finances are often influenced by social and external factors (e.g., macroeconomic forces or social constraints), and identifying the ways individuals and couples react to financial constructs (e.g., stressors or behaviors) within varying environments will strengthen the ability of practitioners to support individuals, couples, and families. Our goal is to facilitate enhanced understanding of how financial influences and constructs are associated with relational characteristics and outcomes.

Objectives

- To analyze how financial constructs are associated with financial and relational outcomes.
- To illustrate associations using different datasets, samples, and analytic techniques. 
- To provide information that family educators can use when they are working with individuals, couples, and families specific to financial constructs and relationship characteristics. 

Keywords: relationships, economics, quantitative methodology