The Relationship Experiences: Strengths & Strains (REST) Lab is an interdisciplinary team focused on deepening our understanding of how close relationships operate as sites of resilience, resistance, and restoration. We aim to identify factors and mechanisms that contribute to the complex associations between social stress, individual wellbeing, and close relationship dynamics across intersecting social positions.Â
By identifying the ways that close relationships operate as sites of resilience, resistance, and restoration, the REST Lab seeks to equip individuals in relationships with the tools to recover from, and fight against, the adverse implications of social stress on individual and relational wellbeing.