Long-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.

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不仅仅是关系质量：对关系质量和数字夫妻干预潜力的女权主义新唯物主义分析

历史悠久的研究和量表对家庭功能、婚姻满意度和夫妻关系质量有深入的了解。然而，其基础结构仍然没有被概念化，并且在很大程度上脱离了日常生活的启发和当代夫妻的动态。我们建议，要充分参与 21 世纪亲密关系的数字世界，需要进行范式转变。女性主义新唯物主义思想复兴了关系科学的认识论和本体论。这使得我们能够重新审视关系质量如何在人与技术的内部行动中体现和创建。然而，女性主义新唯物主义的研究工具通常具有创造性和有意探索性。我们展示了如何使用注重日常生活经验的实践方法来促进对多维公共-私人世界的调查。我们利用它来建立对数字夫妇干预的女权主义新唯物主义分析。通过这一点，我们提出了“超越关系”的质量概念。