"relationship distress" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a relationship is in difficulty or discomfort due to some kind of conflict or misunderstanding. For example, "The couple had been dealing with relationship distress for months before finally deciding to get counseling."
The Dyadic Adjustment Scale, Short Form (DAS-SF) 7-item measure of marital adjustment and marital quality discriminates between distressed and adjusted relationships and was used as an index of relationship distress in study participants [ 25].
This matters because infidelity commonly causes significant relationship distress and can have a negative and deteriorating effect on marriages and families".
Relationship distress impacts key physiological systems implicated in each of these disorders, including the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system, the immune systems inflammatory response, and the gut microbiota.
We conclude by discussing the powerful role that partners can play in helping individuals with combat-related PTSD recover from the disorder through improved communication, decreased couple-level avoidance, and modification of cognitions held by either member of the couple that can maintain PTSD symptoms and/or relationship distress.
Results suggested the intervention was efficacious in (a) favorably impacting couples' levels of relationship satisfaction, autonomy, relatedness, closeness, acceptance of one another, and relationship distress; (b) beneficially affecting individuals' optimism, spirituality, relaxation, and psychological distress; and (c) maintaining benefits at 3-month follow-up.
There are now diagnoses that reflect the mental illness of this terrible phenomenon, in particular parent-child relational problem and child affected by parental relationship distress.
Further studies are needed to fully explain the relationship between distress or bother and QoL, and greater standardization in the reporting of results of distress or bother and QoL measures will allow for comparison among studies.
The mental health impact of drought is poorly quantified and no previous research has demonstrated a relationship between distress and explicit environmentally based measures of drought.
The objectives of this study were to (1) characterize the relationship between distress and patient-reported voice handicap and (2) examine the role of perceived control in this relationship.
Finally, the relationship of distress caseness to psychosocial use was investigated.
However, there seems to be little consensus about the exact relationship between distress and anxiety/depression.
