[1] Afifi is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has taught through the years 2011 to 2013 and 2016 to present.
[5] However, when a relationship or family handles the stress poorly it can cause a distance between parties by allowing the people involved to diminish the others.
[6] In 2018, Afifi continued to study the Theory of Resilience and Relational Load with families who had a child that had Type 1 diabetes.
They found out that the children and the wife's stress level with Type 1 Diabetes correlated together and the husbands were not.
However, for the children, they found that it reduced stress in general, not specifically for type 1 diabetes.