sociations between relationship adjustment and anxiety,and so these results build on prior studies that have found cross-sectional associations between marital adjustment and
anxiety symptoms (e.g., Whisman et al., 2004) and anxiety disorders (e.g., Whisman, 2007) assessed at one point in time. As such, these results are important in demonstrating that longitudinal change in relationship adjustment was accompanied by change in anxiety symptoms and that change in anxiety symptoms was accompanied by change in relationship adjustment; this latter association was significant when controlling for change in depressive symptoms.