We used the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study to examine an integrated mediational model linking economic hardship to relationship distress. Depressive symptoms, partner's discord, parenting stress, and coparenting are combined into a joint model linking economic hardship to relationship distress among mothers and fathers in intimate relationships. Although economic hardship is signif...

Findings from a representative U.S. sample of community couples suggest that marital discord is taxonic (comprising a discrete underlying entity), with an estimated base rate prevalence of .31. A 10item screening measure developed to detect marital discord demonstrates good temporal stability and criterion-related validity in distinguishing distressed from nondistressed couples. Adaptations of ...

The Marital Discord Model of Depression maintains that marital discord is an important antecedent in the development of depression. Although empirical evidence supports this premise, none of this research has been done with Latinos. The purpose of this study was to test the longitudinal relationship between marital satisfaction and depression among 99 Brazilian women. Using structural equation ...

The destructive outcomes of marital discord have been well documented, but studies of the underlying processes which contribute to marital discord and effective ameliorative interventions have not been clearly identified. This study assessed the impact of PAIRS, a psychoeducational group model for couples, on individual outcomes, mediated by social support, of decreased destructive adult intera...

We consider a monogamy inequality of quantum discord in a pure tripartite state and show that it is equivalent to an inequality between quantum mutual information and entanglement of formation of two parties. Since this inequality does not hold for arbitrary bipartite states, quantum discord can generally be both monogamous and polygamous. We also carry out numerical calculations for some speci...

Quantum discord Q is a function of density matrix elements. The domain of such a function in the case of two-qubit system with X density matrix may consist of three subdomains at most: two ones where the quantum discord is expressed in closed analytical forms (Q π/2 and Q 0) and an intermediate subdomain for which, to extract the quantum discord Q θ , it is required to solve in general numerica...

We study the computational complexity of quantum discord (a measure of quantum correlation beyond entanglement), and prove that computing quantum discord is NP-complete. Therefore, quantum discord is computationally intractable: the running time of any algorithm for computing quantum discord is believed to grow exponentially with the dimension of the Hilbert space so that computing quantum disc...

In the framework of the theory of open systems based on completely positive quantum dynamical semigroups, we give a description of the continuous-variable quantum entanglement and quantum discord for a system consisting of two non-interacting modes embedded in a thermal environment. Entanglement and discord are used to quantify the quantum correlations of the system. For all values of the tempe...

The dissipative dynamics of classical correlation(CC), quantum discord(QD) and entanglement (QE) of two qubits in two-side and one-side decoherence models are investigated under Markovian environments. We find the sudden change QD as well as CC and sudden death of entanglement (ESD). The results show that QD and QE decay faster with the increasing of squeezing parameter r; the dipole-dipole int...