More–than–relationship quality: A feminist new materialist analysis of relationship quality and the potential of digital couple interventions

Author:

Gabb Jacqui1ORCID,Aicken Catherine2ORCID,Di Martino Salvatore3,Witney Tom4,Lucassen Mathijs5

Affiliation:

1. School of Social Sciences and Global Studies The Open University Milton Keynes United Kingdom

2. School of Health Sciences University of Brighton Brighton United Kingdom

3. Department of Psychology University of Bradford Bradford United Kingdom

4. Primary Care and Population Health University College London London United Kingdom

5. School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care The Open University Milton Keynes United Kingdom

Abstract

AbstractLong‐established studies and scales have advanced understandings of family function, marital satisfaction, and couple relationship quality. The underpinning constructs nevertheless remain under‐conceptualized and largely removed from the heuristic of everyday life and the dynamic of contemporary coupledom. We propose that a paradigm shift is required to sufficiently engage with the digital worlds of 21st century intimacies. Ideas in feminist new materialism revitalize the epistemology and ontology of relationship science. This enables a new look at how relationship quality is manifest in and created through human–technology intra–actions. The research tools of feminist new materialism are, however, typically creative and intentionally exploratory. We demonstrate how using a practices approach, which focuses on everyday lived experience, facilitates investigation of multidimensional public–private worlds. We deploy this to build a feminist new materialist analysis of a digital couple intervention. Through this, we develop the concept of more–than–relationship quality.

Funder

Economic and Social Research Council

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Social Psychology,Health (social science)

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