What Appears to Be True About Stress, Stressor Salience, and Relationship

question 38

Multiple Choice

What appears to be true about stress, stressor salience, and relationship satisfaction, according to the cross-sectional study by Tesser and Beach?

• A) Salient stressors are detrimental to relationship satisfaction.
• B) Satisfaction declines with increases in stress, but moderate levels of stress become more noticeable, and partners recognize that relationship problems are due to the stress.
• C) When stress is severe, it is more salient, and partners tend to assume that relationship problems are due to the stress.
• D) As relationships develop, stress becomes more salient, as in the case of parenthood.

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