"That's just typical!" A qualitative video review study on the ecological validity of couples' stress conversations

Katharina Weitkamp1, Jasmin Constam1, Guy Bodenmann1

  • 1Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology for Children/Adolescents and Couples/Families, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Frontiers in Psychology
|December 18, 2025
PubMed
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