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Ha, Ju-Young, and Hyo-Jin Park. "Effect of Life Satisfaction on Depression among Childless Married Couples: A Cross-Sectional Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 4 (2022): 2055. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042055.
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Depression among childless middle-aged and elderly people is a serious social problem in Korea. However, few studies examine the influence of life satisfaction on the depression of spouses as actors and partners. Hence, this study analyzes the influence of life satisfaction (a positive factor childless married couples may have) on depression. This cross-sectional study employed data on couples to analyze the effect of life satisfaction on the depression of childless married couples as actors and partners via the actor–partner interdependence model. The Korea Longitudinal Study of Aging was employed to investigate life satisfaction and depression among 207 childless middle-aged and elderly couples. Regarding actor effects, wives’ (β = −0.285, p = 0.004) and husbands’ (β = −0.403, p < 0.001) life satisfaction significantly affected individual depression. Regarding partner effects, husbands’ life satisfaction (β = −0.255, p = 0.011) significantly affected wives’ depression, and the wives’ life satisfaction (β = −0.375, p < 0.001) significantly affected husbands’ depression. A childless actor’s life satisfaction affected own and partner’s depression. Thus, spouses should work together to improve their life satisfaction, thereby improving their depression.
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Zhang, Ronghua, Xiaofeng Guo, Zhongxiang Zhao, Huanrong Zhang, and Lean Feng. "Spouse's Self-Control and Their Marital Satisfaction: the Actor and Partner Effect of Spousal Phubbing." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 51, no. 5 (2023): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.12302.
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The widespread use of and dependence on smartphones has resulted in spousal marital satisfaction being affected by partner phubbing behavior. We investigated the mediating effect of phubbing on the link between self-control and marital satisfaction for both actors and partners. We used the Smartphone Addiction Scale for Chinese Adults, the Self-Control Scale, and the Olson Enrich Marital Inventory to assess 676 Chinese couples with at least one child. Self-control had a significantly positive correlation with marital satisfaction, and spouses' phubbing partially mediated the relationship between participants' self-control and marital satisfaction, thus indicating a significant actor effect. Only a husband's phubbing significantly mediated the path between the husband's self-control and wife's marital satisfaction, thereby suggesting different partner effect patterns. These findings imply that self-control is a positive factor in marital satisfaction, and a spouse's phubbing may also play a negative role in marital satisfaction.
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Monin, Joan K., Holly Laws, Evelyne Gahbauer, Terrence E. Murphy, and Thomas M. Gill. "SPOUSAL ASSOCIATIONS IN MONTHLY REPORTS OF DISABILITY IN THE PRECIPITATING EVENTS PROJECT." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (2019): S672. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2484.
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Abstract While many prior studies have evaluated the antecedents and consequences of changes in disability, few have considered the social context. As nearly 60% of older adults currently live with a spouse or intimate partner, it is important to examine spousal influences on disability. This study examined spousal associations in self-reported disability using data from the Precipitating Events Project, an ongoing longitudinal study of 754 initially nondisabled community living adults age 70 and over who have had monthly assessments of functional status since 1999. We hypothesized that one spouse’s level of disability would be associated with increases in the other spouse’s subsequent disability. We used the Actor Partner Interdependence Model (APIM), a statistical modeling framework that accounts for the interdependence in two-person data and tests the associations of both self (actor) and partner influences on outcomes. We used multilevel, longitudinal APIMs to examine lagged associations in spouses’ monthly reports of disability in 13 activities of daily living (e.g., walking a quarter mile, bathing) in the 37 married couples. As hypothesized, one partner’s prior disability level was significantly associated with the other partner’s (the actor’s) subsequent disability level (B = .674, SE = .012, p &lt; .001) after controlling for the actor’s prior disability level. Also, when both couple members had higher levels of prior disability, they were particularly at risk of subsequent increases in disability (B = .016, SE = .003, p &lt; .001). Incorporating partner disability level in modeling individuals’ outcomes provides greater precision in predicting future disability levels.
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Jolanki, Outi, Päivi Eskola, and Mari Aaltonen. "People with memory illnesses and their spouses as actors in the hybrid care model." Journal of Family Research 35 (March 27, 2023): 326–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.20377/jfr-892.
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Objective: The study analysed how its participants positioned themselves and other people as actors in daily life, and what matters they portrayed as meaningful in seeking and receiving support in daily life.Background: Family care has traditionally played an important role in elder care in Finland. Current policy goals will further increase the importance of family care, yet research on how people with memory illnesses and their spouses perceive care arrangements is scarce. Method: The study drew from theory of relational agency and positioning theory. The data came from semi-structured, in-depth interviews (10) of home-dwelling people diagnosed with a memory illness and their spouses. The interviewees’ age varied from 62 to 88. The analysis focused on the participants’ self-descriptions and descriptions of their experiences and actions in relation to informal and formal care arrangements. Results: The participants with a memory illness positioned themselves together with their spouses as a couple, as satisfied service recipients, as active and knowledgeable service users, or even as consumers who critically evaluated social and health care services. People with memory illnesses are capable of expressing their self-reflexive agentic self and adopting different positions to that of a person with dementia. Conclusion: There is need to better acknowledge agency of people with memory illnesses and to develop different data collection and analysis methods that enable them to convey their views.
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Lee, Juwon, Vicki S. Helgeson, Meredith Van Vleet, et al. "Implications of we-talk for relationships and health among patients with type 1 diabetes and their spouses." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 37, no. 1 (2019): 345–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407519865613.
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We-talk (first-person plural pronoun usage) is frequently used to represent the degree to which a person views an illness as shared within a couple. There is evidence that we-talk is related to good relationship and health. However, research has failed to examine the implications of we-talk for spouses and the interpersonal mechanisms that underlie relational and health benefits. To address these limitations, we investigated the association of we-talk to relationship and health among 199 couples in which one person had type 1 diabetes. We-talk was assessed in the context of a brief coping interview with patients and spouses separately. Patients reported their perceptions of their spouse’s behavior over the past month. Actor–partner interdependence, regression, and bootstrap models showed that patient we-talk was unrelated to patient and spouse well-being, but greater spouse we-talk was associated with higher patient relationship satisfaction, higher patient self-efficacy, and better patient self-care behavior. For spouses, greater spouse we-talk also was associated with higher relationship satisfaction, lower stress, and fewer depressive symptoms. Mediational analyses showed that patients’ perceptions of spouses’ greater emotional support and fewer critical behaviors partially accounted for these associations. Spouse we-talk may be more important than patient we-talk because it signifies that spouses are involved in helping with diabetes management, namely by providing emotional support and refraining from criticizing the patient.
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Martire, Lynn, Ruixue Zhaoyang, and Christina Marini. "Effects of Late-Life Health Transitions on Spouses’ Psychological Well-Being." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (2021): 296. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1149.
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Abstract Declining physical health likely affects not only older adults’ own well-being, but also that of their spouse. Using two waves of data from 610 couples in the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project, we examined effects of health declines over five years on change in self and spousal psychological well-being. Actor-Partner Interdependence Model findings showed that declines in spouses’ physical health (i.e., increased pain and decreased physical and cognitive function) predicted increases in older adults’ anxiety. Given the increasing importance of later-life social ties outside of marriage, we further considered the role of non-spousal health confidants. Preliminary findings suggest that effects of health declines on both partners’ well-being depend on the availability of these confidants. When older adults have people in addition to their spouse with whom they can talk about their health, detrimental effects of spouses’ declining health on older adults’ well-being are weakened for some health outcomes
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Eskola, Päivi, Outi Jolanki, and Mari Aaltonen. "Muistisairautta sairastavan ikääntyvän puolison toimijuus parisuhteessa." Gerontologia 37, no. 2 (2023): 120–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.23989/gerontologia.119365.
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Tässä laadullisessa tutkimuksessa selvitimme, miten muistisairautta sairastava ikääntyvä puoliso ja hänen puoliso-omaishoitajansa kuvaavat muistisairaan puolison toimijuutta parisuhteessa. Analysoimme aineiston sisällönanalyysin keinoin. Muodostimme aineistosta neljä pääteemaa. Puoliso-omaishoitajat kuvasivat muistisairaan toimijuutta eri tavalla kuin sairastavat itse. Puoliso-omaishoitaja kuvasi muistisairaan puolison toimijuutta touhuamisena, mutta sairastavalla käyttäytymisen taustalla oli huoli kotitöistä. Kun muistisairas puoliso havaitsi, ettei kykene tekemään jotakin, mielenkiinto asiaa kohtaan väheni. Puoliso-omaishoitaja näki tilanteessa aloitekyvyttömyyttä. Parisuhteen yhteisissä sosiaalisissa tilanteissa muistisairautta sairastava oli tilanteesta ja ihmisestä riippuen aktiivisena toimijana tai aktiivisena tarkkailijana, itse toimintatapansa valiten. Puoliso-omaishoitajan näkökulmasta puoliso vetäytyi syrjään. Muistisairas puoliso vaikutti myös puoliso-omaishoitajan toimijuuteen vaatimalla läsnäoloa, jolloin tämä joutui osittain luopumaan omasta toimijuudestaan ja toimimaan puolisonsa ehdoilla. Muistisairauteen sairastuneet ovat aktiivisia toimijoita vuorovaikutuksessa muiden ihmisten kanssa omilla ehdoillaan tilanteesta riippuen. He hakevat toimijuuden jakamista puolisonsa kanssa niissä tilanteissa, joissa se on mahdollista, vaikka puoliso-omaishoitajan näkökulmasta kyse ei olisi vastavuoroisesta toimijuudesta. Jaettu toimijuus tukee muistisairautta sairastavan puolison yhteisessä arjessa selviytymistä. The agency of an ageing spouse with dementia This qualitative study examines how older spouses and their spouses with dementia describe the agency of a spouse with dementia in the relationship. Four themes were formed from the data. The caregiver spouses’ descriptions of the agency of a spouse with dementia differed from those of the spouse with dementia. From the perspective of a spousal carer, the agency of a person with dementia was described as hustling and bustling, but from the perspective of a spouse with dementia, behind the activity was the worry about doing housework. When a person with dementia found him/herself unable to do something anymore, he/she gave it up or his/her interest waned, while the spousal carer described it as inability to take initiative to act. In social situations shared by the couple, the spouse with dementia was, depending on the situation and the person, either an active actor or active observer without participating in the discussions. A spouse with dementia forced the spousal carer to partially relinquish his/her own agency and to act on the terms of the spouse with dementia and to be always present. Persons with dementia are not just passive targets. Their agency is active in interacting with other people on their own terms, depending on the situation. They actively share their agency with their spouse in situations where it is possible, even if it is not reciprocal from the point of view of the spousal caregiver.
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Kim, Kyungmin, Yuri Jang, Nan Sook Park, and David Chiriboga. "Acculturation and Healthcare Utilization Among Older Korean Immigrants: A Dyadic Study of Married Couples." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 583. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1945.
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Abstract Research has focused on the socioeconomic/cultural characteristics of individuals to address health disparities among immigrant populations. Dyadic studies of acculturation and healthcare utilization among older immigrants are rare. Using data from 263 older Korean immigrant couples in the U.S. (Mean_age = 74.75 for husbands; 71.03 for wives), this study examined how each spousal acculturation levels (e.g., English proficiency, familiarity with American culture) are associated with healthcare utilization (e.g., usual source of care, medical checkup) and difficulty in using health services, controlling for sociodemographic characteristics. Overall, husbands showed higher levels of acculturation than their wives, but there was also substantial similarity between spouses (ICC = .58). For healthcare utilization, one’s own acculturation (actor effect) was significant only for wives, but spouse’s acculturation (partner effect) was significant only for husbands. For difficulty in health service use, one’s own acculturation was significant for both spouses, but spouse’s acculturation was significant only for husbands.
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Jagganath, Gerelene. "Migration Experiences of the “Trailing Wives” of Professional and Highly Skilled NRI's in Durban, KwaZulu Natal." Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man 15, no. 2 (2015): 405–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972558x1501500211.
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This paper is based on research among a group of 20 Indian national women, the so-called ‘trailing wives’ of professional and highly skilled NRI's (non-resident Indians) residing in Durban, KwaZulu Natal. Borrowing from Radhakrishnan's (2008) notion of ‘global Indianness’ and the role of diasporic women in embodying the cultural ideals of Indian family life, the study is grounded in a transnational and social networks approach (Wellman, 1984; Lauringand Selmar, 2010). Traditional literature on expatriate workers is preoccupied with the migrant's work experience and more specifically, tends to construct highly skilled migrants as individual economic actors, neglecting the family that accompanies them. However, more recent studies acknowledge the impact a ‘trailing spouse’ may contribute to the transnational experience (Louring & Selmer, 2010; Gupta, Banerjee, & Gaur, 2012). Expatriate employees and their spouses can face multiple challenges in the relocation process, including a lack of support from employers, leaving family and friends behind, adapting to a host society, and the difficulty of raising children where traditional support structures do not exist. By casting an anthropological lens on the diverse forms and functions of social ties and networks the families of highly skilled migrants create, the embodied reality of migration is foregrounded.
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Proulx, Christine, Hanamori Skoblow, and Amy Rauer. "SLEEP AND SEXUALITY AMONG CAREGIVERS AND THEIR PARTNERS." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (2023): 522–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.1715.
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Abstract Older adult caregivers have increased risk of disturbed sleep, which is associated with declines in sexual frequency. Spousal caregivers engage in less sexual activity than caregivers of non-spouses. We examined whether the associations between sleep behaviors (duration, napping frequency, feeling rested) and couples’ sexual frequency, quality, and pleasure were similar among dyads in which one spouse was providing care to a spouse (n = 146) or a parent or other care recipient (n = 211). Using Wave 2 of the NSHAP and actor-partner interdependence models, we found significant differences (p &lt;.01) between dyads. For all spouses, only frequency of sharing a bed was related to frequency of sexual activity in the previous 12 months. Sleep duration was not associated with any outcomes. In both groups, frequency of sharing a bed was positively associated with reports of physical pleasure (b’s ranged from .20 to .50). In spousal caregiver couples, caregivers’ greater napping frequency was negatively associated (b = -.29, p &lt;.01) with their partner’s reports of a physically pleasurable relationship, and their reports of feeling rested were positively (b = .17, p &lt; .01) associated with their own reports of pleasure. For couples in which the caregiver was caring for a non-spouse, there were actor effects for caregivers’ and noncaregivers’ napping frequency on lower reports of sexual relationship quality (b = .19 and .49, respectively), and a partner effect for non-caregivers (b = .25). These results point to the importance of understanding the context of caregiving, sleep behaviors, and sexual relationships.
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Curl, Angela, Jennifer Bulanda, and Amy Restorick Roberts. "Older Couples’ Marital Quality and Health Behaviors." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 348. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1118.
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Abstract Health benefits of marriage may stem in part from spouses discouraging unhealthy behavior and encouraging healthy practices. Although studies show spousal effects on health behaviors, few have assessed whether spousal effects vary by the quality of the marital relationship. Spouses in low-quality marriages may be less likely to engage in joint activities that promote health (e.g., shared exercise), make fewer attempts at monitoring their spouse’s health behaviors, and be less successful in their attempts to intervene. Those in unhappy relationships may also use unhealthy behaviors as maladaptive coping strategies to deal with marital stress. We use dyadic data from couples over age 50 in the 2006 and 2008 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to examine how both spouses’ ratings of positive and negative dimensions of marital quality are associated with their own and their spouses’ exercise and smoking (n=3,498 couples). Using HLM software, we estimated actor-partner interdependence models (APIM). Results indicate that both own and husbands’ ratings of positive marital quality are significantly associated with wives’ odds of smoking. Own perceptions of negative marital quality and wives’ perceptions of both positive and negative marital quality are associated with husbands’ odds of smoking. For wives, neither own nor spousal marital quality is significantly related to exercise. For husbands, however, wives’ higher positive marital quality and lower negative marital quality are associated with increased exercise. Strategies to improve marital quality may promote healthy behaviors among older adults, particularly for husbands.
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Piechota, Amanda, and Joan Monin. "Spouses’ Emotion Regulation Skills and Perceived Partner Emotional Support in the Context of Early Stage Dementia." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 907–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3339.
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Abstract Within older adult marriages, spouses often help regulate one another’s emotions, especially in times of stress (Monin, 2016). Although research shows that better emotion regulation skills are associated with better social skills (Lopes, 2005), less is known about whether better emotion regulation skills in one spouse are associated with greater perceived relationship quality from their partner’s point of view. Further, very little is known about these dynamics in the context of early stage dementia in which both spouses may be feeling more stress over time and need support from one another. In the present study, we hypothesized that (a) one spouse’s greater emotion regulation skills would be associated with their own greater perceived emotional support from their partner and (b) their partner would also report greater perceived emotional support. We made the same hypothesis for both the person with dementia and their spouse without dementia. We used self-report baseline data from an intervention study of 45 older adult married couples (N=90) where one spouse has dementia. Spouses completed questionnaires that measured their emotional regulation habits (DERS; Gratz & Roemer, 2004) and perceived emotional support from their partner (Feeney & Collins, 2000). Results from the actor partner interdependence model showed that when both partners had high emotional regulation skills there were the highest levels of perceived partner support for each dyad member (B=-.02, SE=.01, t(38.83)=-2.37, p=.023). Findings suggest couple-focused interventions to enhance emotion regulation skills are important for maintaining relationship quality in the early stages of dementia.
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Piechota, Amanda, Joshua Novak, Thi Vu, and Joan Monin. "EMOTION REGULATION AND POSITIVE AFFECT IN SPOUSAL DEMENTIA CARE DYADS." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (2022): 400–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1575.
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Abstract The early stages of dementia can be a time of stress and uncertainty for spouses, yet little attention is paid to positive experiences. It is important to understand whether there are individual differences in emotion regulation that impact the positive affect of the individual and the partner. Drawing from interdependence theory, we hypothesized that one spouse’s greater difficulty regulating emotions would be associated with their spouses lower positive emotions over time. We used self-report data from an intervention study with three assessment points (baseline, two weeks, and three months) of 45 older adult married couples (N=90) where one spouse has early-stage dementia. Both partners completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale and the Positive and Negative Affect Scale. Results from the longitudinal actor partner interdependence model showed that when care partners were high in difficulty regulating emotions, their partner’s positive affect decreased (β = -0.343, p &lt;.01), controlling for intervention arm and covariates.
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Momesso, Lara, and Chun-Yi Lee. "Transnational mobility, strong states and contested sovereignty: Learning from the China–Taiwan context." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 26, no. 4 (2017): 459–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0117196817747102.
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Mobility across the Taiwan Strait has intensified since the border was opened in 1987. The cross-border social, cultural and economic exchanges, however, have remained closely embedded in the nationalistic logic specific to cross-Strait relations. Employing a state-centered approach and building on a comparative analysis of the interaction between Beijing and two groups of cross-Strait migrants (mainland spouses in Taiwan, and Taiwanese investors in China), this paper examines the various ways in which a state may still exert influence over migrant communities in a context of increased mobility and exchanges. This paper argues that the nation-state may still shape migrants’ experiences, particularly when sending and receiving governments have unresolved disputes. Under these conditions, state actors may use migrant communities to achieve their nationalistic goals.
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Proulx, Christine, Hanamori Skoblow, and Sae Hwang Han. "Marital Quality and Mental Health Among Caregiving Dyads." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 583. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1943.
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Abstract We examined whether the associations between marital quality and mental health were equally strong among dyads in which one spouse was providing care to a spouse (n = 155), parent (n = 61), or another adult (n = 176). Using Wave 2 of the NSHAP and actor-partner interdependence (APIM) models, we found significant differences (p=.004) among groups. Marital quality was negatively associated with one’s own depressive symptoms (b=-1.29) for husbands in the spousal caregiver group, whereas marital quality was negatively associated with one’s own depressive symptoms for wives in both the parental (b=-1.27) and other adult (b=-1.96) caregiver groups. The only partner effect was the negative association between wives’ marital quality and husbands’ depressive symptoms (b=-2.59) among dyads in which one spouse was a parental caregiver. These results point to the importance of understanding the context of caregiving when examining the protective effect of spouses’ marital quality on mental health.
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Kim, Kyungmin, Jeffrey Burr, Gyounghae Han, and Bon Kim. "CHILDHOOD AND MIDLIFE CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT AMONG KOREAN MARRIED COUPLES." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (2022): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.767.
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Abstract Cultural reproduction theory posits that cultural resources transmit to the next generation, suggesting a lingering effect of parental influences on cultural experiences in adulthood. Further, middle-aged adults’ cultural engagement may not only be influenced by their own childhood experiences but also their spouses’ experiences. This study extends our understanding of childhood and midlife cultural engagement of married couples, using a sample of 1,271 couples (age 49–66) from the 2012 Korean Baby Boomer Panel Study and Korean Forgotten Generation Study. Results from Actor Partner Interdependence Models showed that beyond one’s own childhood cultural engagement, spouse’s childhood cultural engagement was associated with levels of perceived cultural engagement at midlife (for both husbands and wives) and number of arts and cultural activities at midlife (only for husbands). Given the cross-spousal associations in cultural engagement among Korean middle-aged couples, both spouses’ cultural resources need to be considered for policy implications.
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Piechota, Amanda, Talha Ali, Jennifer M. Tomlinson, and Joan K. Monin. "Social participation and marital satisfaction in mid to late life marriage." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 39, no. 4 (2021): 1175–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02654075211056289.
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Objectives Research shows that social participation is beneficial for overall health and well-being. Yet, no research to our knowledge has examined whether social participation is associated with greater marital satisfaction in middle-aged and older couples. We hypothesized that middle-aged and older adults would have greater marital satisfaction when their spouse engaged in social groups because there would be greater opportunity for self-expansion and for social support from ties outside the marriage. Methods We used background self-report data from a multi-method study of 98 middle-aged and older adult married couples ( N = 196) with chronic conditions. As part of the study, spouses completed questionnaires that measured the frequency and intensity of involvement in social groups (e.g., church, business groups). Marital satisfaction was measured with the Locke Wallace Marital Adjustment Test. Results Contrary to our hypotheses, results from actor–partner interdependence models provided no evidence that one’s own social participation was associated with one’s own marital satisfaction (actor effects). However, in line with our hypotheses regarding partner effects, one spouse’s (a) report of any social participation with church organizations, business groups, or social groups, (b) greater number of affiliations with different organizations, (c) greater frequency of participation, and (d) being an active officer in a social organization were significantly associated with the other spouse’s greater marital satisfaction. Discussion Findings of this study suggest that having a spouse who participates in social groups is good for relationship satisfaction in mid to late life marriage.
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Chopik, William J., Jeewon Oh, and Eric S. Kim. "THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ACTOR-PARTNER OPTIMISM AND COGNITIVE ABILITY AMONG OLDER COUPLES." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (2019): S813—S814. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2999.
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Abstract Optimism has been found to be associated with physical health and interpersonal well-being. Spouses also play an important role on people’s health especially in late life. Yet, little is known about how a spouse’s optimism might be associated with an individual’s cognitive health. This study examined how actor and partner optimism in couples are associated with cognitive ability. Results showed positive associations between actor optimism and cognitive ability (.03 ≤ rs ≤ .17), and partner optimism and cognitive ability (.03 ≤ rs ≤.04), which mostly persisted over time. Further, partner optimism moderated actor optimism. Although highly optimistic people had higher cognitive ability regardless of partner’s optimism (r = .02, p = .22), people particularly benefitted from being married to an optimist (r = .05, p &lt; .001). These results suggest that we need to consider the context of spousal relationships when understanding optimism and cognitive health in older-adulthood.
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Karademas, Evangelos C., and Ioannis Tsaousis. "Adaptation to Illness in Couples Dealing With a Cardiovascular Disease." Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie 22, no. 4 (2014): 185–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1026/0943-8149/a000128.
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The aim of this study was to examine the dyadic effects of three patient and spouse personality traits (i. e., neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness) on couples’ adaptation to illness. Two important illness cognitions were used as indicators of adaptation to illness–namely, illness-related acceptance and helplessness. Seventy-five patients with a chronic cardiovascular disease and their spouses participated in the study. The dyadic effects of personality traits, as well as the interaction effects between patient and spouse traits were examined with the actor–partner interdependence model (APIM). Several actor effects (i. e., the effects of a person’s own characteristics on their own outcomes) were noted. Also, certain partner effects (i. e., the effects of the characteristics of the one member of the couple on the other member’s outcomes) were found. After controlling for actor effects, patients’ helplessness was related to their spouses’ extraversion, spouses’ illness acceptance was related to patients’ conscientiousness, and spouses’ helplessness was related to patients’ neuroticism. In addition, patients’ conscientiousness was found to moderate the effects of spouses’ conscientiousness on their own acceptance. These findings seem to challenge the traditional perspective according to which personality refers to intrapersonal processes, and call for a theoretical refocus on the interpersonal/social role of personality traits as far as adaptation to illness is concerned.
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Garza, Elizabeth Zambrano, Rachel Murphy, Maureen Ashe, et al. "RUMINATION IN DYADS DURING TIME OF UNCERTAINTY—DAILY LIFE ASSESSMENTS AFTER THE ONSET OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (2023): 828. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.2671.
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Abstract Rumination involves repetitive, self-oriented, negative thinking and is known to be detrimental to psychological well-being and health. However, little is known about the extent to which rumination is associated with well-being and health in close relationship partners in older age. Additionally, the pandemic was a time that was characterized by high stress, making it an important context to study rumination. Using daily diary data from 140 Canadian older adults plus a close other of their choice (59% spouses, M = 66.72 years, SD = 13.01 range: 18-87 years, 88% White, 62% women), this project builds on past evidence examining daily life rumination dynamics and extends it to a dyadic perspective beyond couples. For ten days, both dyad members provided evening ratings of daily rumination and affect quality. Multilevel models replicate individual level evidence that higher daily rumination was associated with more daily negative affect and less daily positive affect. Importantly, we also found partner effects such that more close others’ rumination was associated with elevated actors’ negative affect (b = 0.03, p = .038) and reduced actors’ positive affect (b = -0.04, p = .023), suggesting that it is not only one’s own rumination that relates to daily well-being, but also that of a close tie. Findings demonstrate the utility of taking a dyadic perspective on what is typically conceived as an individual-level phenomenon.
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Hochgraf, Anna K., and Susan M. McHale. "Honey, do I look fat? Perceptions of spouses’ weight and weight concerns predict marital relationship quality." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 37, no. 3 (2019): 865–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407519880961.
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The majority of adults in the U.S. are overweight or obese, and yet Western ideals of beauty include low body fat composition as a component of physical attractiveness. In turn, perceived discrepancies between actual and ideal body shape and weight mean that many adults experience weight concerns—and they also may be dissatisfied with their spouse’s weight. This study examined whether weight concerns were linked to romantic relationship quality, an important domain of adult development. Specifically, we applied the Actor–Partner Interdependence Model to test how wives’ and husbands’ weight concerns and perceptions of their spouses’ overweight contributed to their own and their spouse’s reports of marital satisfaction and conflict over time. The sample was 197 heterosexual married couples ( Mage = 40.85 and 42.81 years for wives and husbands, respectively; Mlength of marriage = 18.6 years at Time 1) with children, who participated in a short-term longitudinal study of family relationships and adolescent development. Two-way interactions between partner perceptions of spouses’ weight and gender indicated that husbands’ perceptions that their wives were overweight predicted decreases in wives’ marital satisfaction and increases in wives’ reports of marital conflict across 1 year. In contrast, wives’ perceptions of husbands’ weight were not associated with changes in husbands’ marital satisfaction or conflict. A two-way interaction between actor and partner weight concerns indicated that individuals reported more marital conflict when there was a discrepancy between their own and their spouse’s weight concerns. Finally, a two-way interaction between actor and partner perceptions of spouse’s weight indicated that, for individuals whose spouses rated them as below ideal weight, their perceptions of the spouse’s overweight predicted their own lower marital satisfaction. Findings suggest that concerns about one’s own and one’s spouse’s weight have negative ramifications for marital relationships.
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August, Kristin J., Caitlin S. Kelly, Charlotte H. Markey, and Shibin Yan. "RECIPROCITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN DIET-RELATED SPOUSAL INVOLVEMENT AMONG OLDER COUPLES MANAGING DIABETES." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (2019): S262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.977.
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Abstract Spouses are commonly involved in supporting and regulating their partners’ diabetic diet. Older spouses also may be managing their own condition that requires changes to their diet. Little is known about the extent to which this spousal involvement is reciprocal and if there are individual differences in the provision of diet-related support and control (regulation). This study sought to understand the reciprocity of diet-related support and both positive and negative forms of control, whether personality traits predicted the provision of diet-related spousal involvement, and whether gender moderated these associations. We used data from a cross-sectional survey of 150 couples (50+ years) in which one member had type 2 diabetes (Mage=65.94; Mmarital length=33.46; 50.7% male patients; 58.7% of spouses had a condition that required changes to their diet). The provision and receipt of social support and two forms of social control were moderately correlated within individuals (patient rs=.36-.45, ps&lt;.001; spouse rs=.41-.73, ps&lt;.001). Using Actor Partner Interdependence Models that controlled for age and responsibility for managing meals, results revealed that being more extraverted or having a partner who was more extraverted was associated with greater involvement, whereas being more neurotic or having a partner who was more neurotic or had more interpersonal problems was associated with less positive and greater negative involvement. Associations were particularly pronounced for men. Results suggest that there is moderate amount of reciprocity, as well as personality differences, in diet-related spousal involvement. These findings highlight the importance of targeting both members of the couple in diabetes intervention efforts.
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Wang, Shuangshuang, Kyungmin Kim, and Jeffrey Burr. "Older Couples Coping With Adverse Life Events: The Importance of Dyadic Personality Profiles." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 582–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1942.
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Abstract Personality can be an important resource as older couples cope with adverse life events. Analyzing 4,893 older couples from the Health and Retirement Study, this study examined how one’s own and spouse’s adverse life events (health decline, job exit, loss of wealth, family member’s death) occurring in the past two years are associated with changes in depressive symptoms. We further examined the moderating effects for this association of six dyadic personality profiles (combinations of spouses’ positive and negative personality characteristics). We found significant actor and partner effects of health decline for increases in both spouses’ depressive symptoms, and significant actor effects of a family death for husbands’ increased depressive symptoms. For wives, having positive personality profiles buffered negative effects of one’s own health decline and spouses’ family death, whereas having negative profiles intensified negative effects of husbands’ job exit and loss of wealth on the depressive symptoms for both spouses.
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Wilson, Stephanie, Christina Marini, and Amy Rauer. "The Implications of Aging Couples’ Linked Lives: Dyadic Associations in Health and Well-Being." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (2021): 295–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1147.
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Abstract Older adults age in the context of their intimate partnerships. Partners’ lives—their emotions, behaviors, and health—are intricately linked as they navigate the challenges associated with aging. This symposium presents research that illuminates ways partners influence one another later in life. The talks are diverse with regard to their timescale (e.g., years vs. hours) and context (e.g., dementia vs. pain). Dr. Martire will examine associations between declines in one spouse’s physical health over 5 years and the other’s mental health. This talk will further consider whether discussing health concerns exclusively with one’s spouse intensifies such associations. Ms. Nah will show how the pain of both partners (care providers and recipients) contributes to escalating marital conflict over 2 years. Dr. Wilson will demonstrate that emotional reactivity to spousal distress in the lab is associated with increased proinflammatory gene expression up to 80 minutes later, a risky pattern for health if repeated over time. Dr. Monin will examine actor and partner associations of affect and depressive symptoms among people with early-stage dementia and their spouses; the absence of partner associations suggests that emotional spillover may operate differently in early-stage dementia dyads. Dr. Novak will identify correlates of four latent profiles derived from couples’ physical, psychological, and relationship well-being: happy, healthy couples; unhappy, unhealthy couples; and two groups with blissful marriages despite individual problems. Dr. Amy Rauer, an internationally recognized scholar of relationships and health, will discuss ways in which this research advances our understanding of couples’ linked lives.
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Azize Diallo, Abdoul, Prince Justin Anku, and Rhodalyn Adwoa Darkoa Oduro. "Exploring the psycho-social burden of infertility: Perspectives of infertile couples in Cape Coast, Ghana." PLOS ONE 19, no. 1 (2024): e0297428. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297428.
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Infertility is a complex and often sensitive issue with far-reaching psycho-social ramifications for couples and their families. This study therefore seeks to delve into the psycho-social burden of infertility in Cape Coast, a major city in Ghana. Specifically, we explored the impact of infertility on the psychological and social health of infertile couples receiving fertility treatment. It also delves into the strategies they adopt to cope with their conditions. The study employs a qualitative approach to inquiry using phenomenology as a study design to explore the experiences of the study participants. In-depth interviews were conducted using interview guides, voice recorded and transcribed verbatim. Both inductive and deductive/framework coding techniques were used to code the data leading to the generation of themes and sub-themes. The results show that most of the study participants dealing with infertility faced psychological burdens from different sources including their families, society and themselves. These burdens take a toll on their mental health, pushing them into a state of desperation and depression. It was, however, revealed that infertile couples are able to cope with the help of their family, spouses and the church. Curiously, some of them opt for withdrawal from social events as a coping mechanism. Infertility exerts an enormous negative psycho-social impact on affected couples, especially women. The family and society serve as the main sources of stressors for infertile couples. Therefore, programmes that are aimed at fertility treatment should deliberately consider addressing the psychosocial burden of infertility through education targeting actors, especially interpersonal-level actors.
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Pokora, Andrzej. "LIABILITY OF SPOUSES REMAINING IN THE SYSTEM OF JOINT PROPERTY FOR THE OBLIGATIONS OF ONE OF THEM AND ANTI-ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS AS A MEANS OF SUBSTANTIVE DEFENCE OF THE DEBTOR’S SPOUSE." Roczniki Administracji i Prawa 1, no. XX (2020): 147–263. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.1440.
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The study concerns the scope of liability with the joint property for the obligations of one of the spouses and the issue of the defence of the debtor’s spouse by way of anti-enforcement actions. First, the matter of the property liability of the spouses for the obligations incurred by one of them when they remain in the matrimonial regime is discussed. Next, the issue of the joint property liability for the obligations due to the public law liabilities has been outlined. Further on, anti-enforcement actions as an expression of the substantive defence of the debtor’s spouse have been discussed. Finally, it was pointed out that the debtor’s spouse had an opportunity to defend himself/herself in the event of the execution from the joint bank account of the debtor and his spouse.
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Rokan, Mustapa Khamal, Imam Yazid, and Bagus Ramadi. "Family Disharmony as a Reason for Divorce (Analysis of Religious Court Decision in Medan 2017, Psychology and Sociology Perspective)." Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 4 (2020): 2807–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birci.v3i4.1290.
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Family harmony becomes a strong foundation in upholding the integrity of the household, on the other hand, family disharmony is the cause of the collapse of family buildings that have been successfully cultivated. In the last two years, from 2016-2017 the number of divorce cases due to family disharmony has increased significantly. More divorce suits were filed by wives than husbands. This study looks at the problems that occur with the juridical-analysis approach to see the legal facts of the reasons for divorce and to analyze the factors that cause family disharmony based on the decisions analyzed and the research data obtained in the field. Based on the analysis that the author did and saw the facts that the disharmony occurred, it was the culmination of various family problems that the spouses were unable to resolve properly, resulting in continuous disputes that ended in divorce. The paradigm of divorce today is much different from the previous conditions. In the past, divorce was a bad disgrace, divorce was considered a failure in building a family and divorce actors received social sanctions in society.
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Abaei, Elnaz, and Peter Martin. "THE EFFECTS OF PARTNERS’ HAPPINESS ON EACH OTHER: AN ACTOR-PARTNER INTERDEPENDENCE MODEL." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (2023): 172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.0562.
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Abstract The study of happiness among older adults has attracted the attention of researchers and practitioners. Happiness is affected by multiple factors, including the relationship with a partner, as they spend more time together in later life. This research aims to evaluate an actor-partner interdependence model, assessing the association of respondent and spouse happiness affecting each other over time. A second aim is to examine the effect of age, gender, education, and whether parents are alive on the respondents’ and their spouses’ happiness. About 9,570 individuals over 50 years of age from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and their spouses were included. Respondents’ and their spouses’ happiness measured at two time points were included in the analysis, as were age, gender, education, and the parents’ living status. Multiple regression analyses in SPSS were computed, and the results demonstrated that past happiness is directly associated with present happiness for both respondents and spouses. Respondents’ happiness was also significantly associated with spouses’ happiness, as spouses’ happiness was associated with respondents’ happiness. Furthermore, older age, male gender, and higher education were associated with happiness. Parents’ living status was significantly related only to respondents’ happiness at the first time point, but not to spouses’ happiness. This study helps to understand an actor-partner interdependence model, which highlights partners’ influences on each other’s subjective well-being. Our exploratory study raises several opportunities for future research regarding the actor-partner interdependence model. More research will be necessary to find further variables affecting happiness among older adults.
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Zajdel, Melissa, Vicki S. Helgeson, Howard J. Seltman, Mary T. Korytkowski, and Leslie R. M. Hausmann. "Daily Communal Coping in Couples With Type 2 Diabetes: Links to Mood and Self-Care." Annals of Behavioral Medicine 52, no. 3 (2018): 228–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/abm/kax047.
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Abstract Background Adjusting to the challenges of a chronic illness does not affect patients alone but also influences social network members—most notably spouses. One interpersonal framework of coping with a chronic illness is communal coping, described as when a problem is appraised as joint and the couple collaborates to manage the problem. Purpose We sought to determine whether daily communal coping was linked to daily mood and self-care behavior and examined one potential mechanism that may explain these links: perceived emotional responsiveness. Methods Patients who had been diagnosed with diabetes less than 5 years ago and their spouses (n = 123) completed a daily diary questionnaire that assessed communal coping and mood for 14 consecutive days. The patients also reported daily self-care behaviors. We used multilevel modeling to examine the links of communal coping to patient and spouse mood and patient self-care. Because both patients and spouses reported their mood, the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) was employed to examine mood. Results Multilevel APIM showed that actor communal coping was associated with lower depressed mood, higher happy mood, and lower angry mood and partner communal coping was linked to higher happy mood. Patient communal coping was related to better dietary and medication adherence, and spouse communal coping was linked to better medication adherence. Perceived emotional responsiveness partially mediated the relations of communal coping to mood but not to self-care behaviors. Conclusions Communal coping on a daily basis may help both patients and spouses adjust psychologically to the illness as well as enhance patient self-care behaviors.
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Park, Nan, Yuri Jang, Kyungmin Kim, et al. "A DYADIC ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE RESOURCES AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION AMONG OLDER KOREAN AMERICAN COUPLES." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (2023): 811. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.2617.
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Abstract Individuals’ health and well-being are often shaped by significant others in their lives in that spousal relationships are particularly important. In dyadic studies among older couples, few studies have examined cognitive health as an outcome variable. Considering the lack of couple research on cognition especially among older immigrant population, the purpose of this study was to examine the cognitive function of community-dwelling older Korean American couples in the U.S. Data were drawn from a survey with older Korean Americans aged 60 and older, collected during 2017−2018 in multiple locations. Using a subset of 252 couples of the survey (individual N = 504), we examined the extent to which one’s cognitive function was associated with the cognitive resources (education, acculturation, friend network, and activity participation) of their own and of their spouse. The analyses with the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model showed the differences in the actor- and partner-effects between spouses. For husbands, acculturation was the only significant actor-level predictor to cognitive function. Wives’ cognitive function was associated with a wider array of their own cognitive resources, including education, friend network, and activity participation. The partner effect was only observed in education for husbands, indicating that wives’ higher education was beneficial for their husbands’ cognitive function. Further, the cognitive benefit of higher education was found to be maximized for husbands who also had greater levels of acculturation or activity participation. For practice implications, cognitive resources both in individual and spousal levels could help promote the cognitive health and well-being of older married couples.
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Wickrama, Kandauda A. S., Tae Kyoung Lee, and Catherine Walker O’Neal. "Marital strain trajectories over a quarter century and spouses’ loneliness: Couple-level and individual pathways." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 37, no. 3 (2019): 821–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407519879512.
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Although research suggests that stressful marital experiences may lead to feelings of loneliness in later life, little is known about the influence of marital strain over an extended period of time on loneliness in later years. Thus, in the present study, drawing from family systems and cognitive theories along with common fate and actor–partner interdependence modeling approaches, we hypothesized a hybrid model comprised of two multilevel pathways explaining the persistent influence of marital strain on loneliness, including: (a) a couple-level pathway and (b) an individual pathway involving within-spouse and between-spouse effects. Specifically, we investigated the influences of individual- and couple-level trajectories of marital strain over a period of 25 years (from 1991 to 2015) on loneliness outcomes in later years with a sample of 257 couples in enduring, long-term (over 40 years) marriages. The results mostly supported both hypothesized pathways. Consistent with the pathway involving a couple-level process, couple-level trajectories of marital strain predicted couples’ later-life loneliness as reflected by both spouses’ reports of loneliness (shared perceptions). In addition, at the individual level, each spouses’ unexplained variances (unique perception) in marital strain trajectories predicted his/her own later-life loneliness outcomes (within-spouse effect or actor effect). Findings are discussed as they relate to intervention and prevention programs focusing on the well-being of married couples in later life.
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Saresma, Tuija. "Intersections of Mobility and Belonging: Blogging Subjectivities of Finns on the Move." Journal of Finnish Studies 22, no. 1-2 (2019): 47–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/28315081.22.1.2.04.
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Abstract As components of the contemporary experience, mobility and displacement (Appadurai 1990; Said 2002) are accompanied by our need to belong: while global mobility is encouraged by and expected from the educated ex-pats and temporary workers, the “flows” of migrants cause “debates, challenges, and crises” in the European nation-states (Skey 2014). Yet, in the novel interest in digital mobilities, the analysis of personal experiences has been left aside. In this article, the focus is on affective accounts of mobility and belonging. The autobiographical narratives published in the blogosphere are analyzed to shed light on the processes of multi-sited place attachments. The analysis of intersecting mobilities rests on the divergent experiences based on, for example, geographical, gendered, ethnic, age-related, class, or economic differences of the bloggers, mainly Finnish exchange students, travelers, and (spouses of) ex-pats. Analyzing individual digital narratives brings forth the varying experiences and processes of belonging and emphasizes the spatially, temporally, and experientially multidimensional character of mobility and belonging and the localities and situatedness of mobile actors. This analysis of mobility blogs emphasizes the increasing role of the Internet in producing translocal belonging and the centrality of places in self-understanding and meaning-making.
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Lehane, Christine M., Sofia Maria Hofsöe, Walter Wittich, and Jesper Dammeyer. "Mental Health and Spouse Support Among Older Couples Living With Sensory Loss." Journal of Aging and Health 30, no. 8 (2017): 1205–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0898264317713135.
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Objectives: The current study examined the mental health of couples living with and without sensory loss; compared the mental health of couples living with hearing, vision, or dual-sensory loss; and investigated the association between spouse support and the mental health of couples living with sensory loss. Method: The study included 513 couples with sensory loss and 1,079 couples without sensory loss. Actor–Partner Interdependence Models were used to examine associations between spouse support and mental health. Results: Controlling for potential covariates, individuals with sensory loss and their spouses were at a greater risk of mental health problems. Sensory loss modality (hearing and/or vision) did not explain any differences. Both actor and partner effects of spouse support on anxiety and depression were found. Discussion: The findings highlight the need to support the mental health of couples living with sensory loss and indicate the importance of considering the intimate relationship in future studies.
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Lee, Jeong Eun, Lynn M. Martire, Steve H. Zarit, and Michael J. Rovine. "Activity Restriction and Depressive Symptoms in Older Couples." Journal of Aging and Health 29, no. 7 (2016): 1251–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0898264316660413.
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Objective: The present study aimed to clarify the circumstances under which activity restriction (AR) is associated with depressive symptoms among patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and their spouses. Method: A total of 220 older adults with OA and their caregiving spouses participated in the study. The actor–partner interdependence model (APIM) was used to examine the associations between AR stemming from patients’ OA and the depressive symptoms of patients and spouses. The potential moderating role of marital satisfaction also was examined. Results: After accounting for pain severity, health, and life stress of both patients with OA and spouses, higher AR was associated with more depressive symptoms for both patients and spouses. In regard to partner effects, patients whose spouse had higher AR reported more depressive symptoms. In addition, the association of spouses’ and patients’ AR and their own depressive symptoms was moderated by their marital satisfaction. For both patients and spouses, the associations between their own AR and depressive symptoms were weaker for those with higher levels of marital satisfaction compared with those with lower levels of marital satisfaction. Discussion: This pattern of findings highlights the dyadic implications of AR and the vital role of marital satisfaction in the context of chronic illness.
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Lee, Kyuho. "IS ME IMPORTANT TO US? ACTOR AND PARTNER EFFECTS OF SELF-ACCEPTANCE ON SPOUSAL SUPPORT." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (2019): S671—S672. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2483.
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Abstract Marital relationship is influenced by substantial and perceived support exchange. Therefore, it is important to find predictors of support-giving and support-receiving. However, very few studies attempted to do so. As some previous studies reported, individuals’ personality-related characteristics seem to play a significant role in the support exchange within couples. This study aimed to assess the effect of individuals’ self-acceptance on support exchange within older couples. Data of 2,082 heterosexual older couples aged between 50 and 85 in 2006 from the Health and Retirement Study were assessed utilizing an actor-partner inter-dependence model and growth curve model. For the actor effects, both husbands’ and wives’ higher levels of self-acceptance predicted their own perception of the support from a spouse. For the partner effects as well, individuals’ self-acceptance positively predicted their spouse’s perception of the received support. Husbands’ self-acceptance, however, was associated with a decrease in wives’ perceived support. We discuss the possible mechanism with regard to older adults’ self-acceptance and marital support. The findings of the current study contribute to the theories of spousal support and personality as well as in the practical settings of couple therapy and education.
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Ko, Linda K., and Megan A. Lewis. "The role of giving and receiving emotional support in depressive symptomatology among older couples: An application of the actor-partner interdependence model." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 28, no. 1 (2010): 83–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407510387888.
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The present study investigated whether perception of receiving emotional support mediates the relationship between one partner’s giving of emotional support and the other partner’s depressive symptomatology using a population-based sample of 423 couples from the Changing Lives of Older Couples study. A path model was used guided by the Actor—Partner Interdependence Model. Results indicated that spouses’ giving emotional support was related to the degree to which their spouse reported receiving emotional support. Perception of receiving emotional support, in turn, was related to lower depressive symptomatology of the support recipient. Both husbands and wives can benefit from emotional support through their perception of receiving emotional support, and spouses’ perceptions, as well as their actions, should be considered in support transactions.
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Helgeson, Vicki S., Jeanean B. Naqvi, Howard Seltman, et al. "Links of communal coping to relationship and psychological health in type 2 diabetes: actor–partner interdependence models involving role, sex, and race." Annals of Behavioral Medicine 54, no. 5 (2019): 346–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaz052.
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Abstract Background Communal coping is one person’s appraisal of a stressor as shared and collaboration with a partner to manage the problem. There is a burgeoning literature demonstrating the link of communal coping to good relationships and health among persons with chronic disease. Purpose We examined links of communal coping to relationship and psychological functioning among couples in which one person was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. We distinguished effects of own communal coping from partner communal coping on both patient and spouse relationship and psychological functioning, as well as whether communal coping effects were moderated by role (patient, spouse), sex (male, female), and race (White, Black). Methods Participants were 200 couples in which one person had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (46% Black, 45% female) within the last 5 years. Couples completed an in-person interview, participated in a discussion to address diabetes-related problems, and completed a postdiscussion questionnaire. Results Own communal coping and partner communal coping were related to good relationship and psychological functioning. Interactions with role, sex, and race suggested: (i) partner communal coping is more beneficial for patients than spouses; (ii) own communal coping is more beneficial for men, whereas partner communal coping is more beneficial for women; and (iii) White patients and Black spouses benefit more from own communal coping than Black patients and White spouses. Conclusion These findings demonstrate the benefits of communal coping across an array of self-report and observed indices, but suggest there are differential benefits across role, sex, and race.
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Galovan, Adam M., Erin Kramer Holmes, David G. Schramm, and Thomas R. Lee. "Father Involvement, Father–Child Relationship Quality, and Satisfaction With Family Work." Journal of Family Issues 35, no. 13 (2013): 1846–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x13479948.
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Using family systems theory and an actor–partner interdependence model, we examine the influence of the division of family work (including fathers’ participation in child rearing) on father–child relationship quality, satisfaction with the family work division, and marital quality. The strongest effect on both spouses’ marital quality is wives’ perception of father–child relationship quality. Following this, wives’ perceptions of father participation in child rearing are positively associated with both spouses’ reports of marital quality. Furthermore, both husbands and wives report higher marital quality when they are more satisfied with the division of labor. When wives report their husbands have greater responsibility for family tasks, both spouses report higher satisfaction with the division of labor. Post hoc analyses revealed that wives are more satisfied with the division of labor when they work with their spouse rather than alone. All findings support a systemic relational orientation to family work, the division of roles, and relationship quality.
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Kim, Kyungmin, Nan Sook Park, Soondool Chung, and Yuri Jang. "A Dyadic Assessment of Cognitive Resources and Cognitive Function Among Older Korean Immigrant Couples." Korea Gerontological Society 43, no. 6 (2023): 975–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.31888/jkgs.2023.43.6.975.
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Cognitive function is an important component of successful aging, facilitating independent living and affecting quality of life in later life, but less is known whether individuals' cognitive resources and cognitive function are interrelated within couples. Using a sample of 252 older Korean immigrant couples (individual N = 504), we examined the extent to which one's cognitive function was associated with one's own cognitive resources (education, acculturation, friend networks, and participation in activities) and those of one's spouse. Analyses based on the actor-partner interdependence model showed differences in actor and partner effects between spouses. Among husbands, acculturation was the only significant actor-level predictor of cognitive function. Among wives, cognitive function was associated with a wider array of their own cognitive resources, including education, friend networks, and participation in activities. No partner effects were observed for wives' cognitive function, but for husbands, partner effects showed wives' higher education was beneficial for husbands' cognitive function. It is speculated that women's education may promote the cognitive function of their spouses via cognitively stimulating conversations and activities of daily life. These findings highlight the importance of considering the gendered cognitive resources in older immigrant couples’ cognitive health.
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August, Kristin J., Caitlin S. Kelly, and Charlotte H. Markey. "Reciprocity and personality in diet-related spousal involvement among older couples managing diabetes: The role of gender." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 38, no. 1 (2020): 363–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407520962850.
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Spouses are commonly involved in the dietary aspect of their partners’ diabetes management. Older spouses also may be managing their own condition, however, that requires changes to their diet. Given established gender differences in diet-related spousal involvement, gender therefore may be a more important factor than patient status in understanding this type of involvement. In this study, we sought to understand the reciprocity of diet-related support and control (persuasion and pressure), whether personality traits were related to the engagement in this type of involvement, and whether gender moderated these associations. We used data from a cross-sectional survey of 148 couples (50+ years old) in which at least one member had type 2 diabetes. Engagement in support, persuasion, and pressure were moderately correlated within couples, and women engaged in more frequent support and control of their partners’ diet than men. Using Actor Partner Interdependence Models that controlled for race/ethnicity, marital quality, responsibility for managing meals, and patient status, we found that extraversion was associated with engagement in spousal support and persuasion, whereas neuroticism and conscientiousness were associated with engagement in spousal pressure. Associations were particularly pronounced for men. The findings suggest that there is a moderate amount of reciprocity, as well as gender and personality differences, in diet-related spousal involvement.
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Liu, Ruotong, Iris Chi, and Shinyi Wu. "Dyadic Relationships Between Self-Rated Health and Cognition Among Older Adults and Their Spousal Caregivers." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (2021): 519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2004.
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Abstract This study examines spouses who are in a caregiving situation to discern how they influence each other’s health. Previous studies reported health concordance and cross-domain effects among caregiver and care-recipient dyads. However, it is less understood of the health dyadic relationships among spouses who are in a caregiving situation. No studies have specifically looked into the relationship between self-rated health (SRH) and cognitive functioning among spousal caregiving dyads over time. In this study we analyzed the longitudinal reciprocal relationships between SRH and cognitive functioning measured by the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status among older adults and their spousal caregivers, and whether the relationship differed by whether husband or wife was the caregiver. Longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (2010-2016) on 540 dyads were pooled and analyzed using structural equation modeling under an actor-partner interdependence model. Results revealed cognitive concordance among older spouses in which caregivers’ cognition is associated with care-recipients’ cognition subsequently (β=0.05, p&lt;.05). SRH concordance was not significant. Cross-domain results showed only one significant direction, that is, care-recipients’ cognition in the subsequent time was significantly correlated with caregivers’ SRH, regardless of whether husband (β=0.09, p&lt;.05) or wife (β=0.08, p&lt;.05) was the caregiver. Our study found that married couples in a spousal caregiving situation displayed cognitive but not overall health concordance, and cross-domain effects of caregiver’s SRH on spousal care recipient’s cognition subsequently. The reciprocal associations suggest that addressing and improving either partner’s physical health and cognition may benefit both dyad members.
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Piechota, Amanda, and Joan Monin. "Spouses’ Emotion Regulation Skills and Depressive Symptoms in the Context of Early Stage Dementia." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (2021): 1015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3638.
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Abstract In older adults, the suffering of a relative with chronic disease or illness can severely impact their caregiver. However, older adults also tend to have better emotional regulation than younger age groups. Very little is known about these dynamics in the context of early-stage dementia in which both spouses are struggling with caregiving or experiencing dementia and need one another for support. In the present study, we hypothesized that when both partners have better emotion regulation skills, each partner’s depressive symptoms would be the lowest. We made the same hypothesis for both the person with dementia and their spouse without dementia. We used self-report baseline data from an intervention study of 70 older adult married couples (N=140) where one spouse has early-stage dementia. Spouses completed questionnaires that measured their emotional regulation habits (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale) and their recent depressive symptoms (CESD). Results from the actor partner interdependence model showed that when both partners had high emotional regulation skills scores there were the lowest levels of depressive symptoms for each dyad member (B=4.31, SE=.94, t(49.9)=4.61, p&lt;.001). Findings suggest couple-focused interventions to enhance emotion regulation skills are important for coping in the early stages of dementia.
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Al-Rawashdeh, Sami Y., Terry A. Lennie, and Misook L. Chung. "The Association of Sleep Disturbances With Quality of Life in Heart Failure Patient–Caregiver Dyads." Western Journal of Nursing Research 39, no. 4 (2016): 492–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193945916672647.
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Sleep disturbance is common in patients with heart failure and their family caregivers. The purpose of this study was to determine whether sleep disturbances of patients and their spousal caregivers predicted their own and their partners’ quality of life (QoL) in 78 heart failure patient–spousal caregiver dyads. Sleep disturbance was assessed using a composite score of four common sleep complaints. QoL was assessed by the physical and mental well-being subscales of the Short-Form 12 Health Survey. The multilevel dyadic actor–partner interdependence model analysis was used to determine the association between sleep disturbance and QoL. Each individual’s sleep disturbance predicted their own poor physical and mental well-being while spousal caregivers’ sleep disturbance predicted their partners’ mental well-being. Results indicated that patients’ mental well-being is sensitive to their spouses’ sleep disturbance. Interventions targeting improving sleep and QoL may have to include both patients and spousal caregivers.
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Monin, Joan, Jennifer Tomlinson, and Brooke Feeney. "Laughter and Short-Term Blood Pressure Reactivity in Spousal Support Interactions." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 649. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2236.
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Abstract Individual effects of laughter in reducing stress are well-documented. However, no research has examined dyadic associations between laughter and blood pressure in spousal support interactions. This study examined the hypotheses that individual and shared laughter would be associated with lower blood pressure and distress during a support interaction for both the “support-seeker” and the “support-provider”. Two hundred and seventy-one older adult couples were video-recorded and their blood pressure was monitored during a baseline, a discussion about the support-seeker’s greatest fear related to aging, and while playing a game in the laboratory. Both spouses reported their distress after the support interaction. Laughter was coded by trained observers. According to the Actor Partner Interdependence Models, the more the support-seeker laughed, the lower the support-provider’s systolic blood pressure was during the support interaction (partner effect). Also, laughter was associated with less distress for both spouses during the support interaction (actor effects). Part of a symposium sponsored by Dyadic Research on Health and Illness Across the Adult Lifespan Interest Group.
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Li, Yang. "Financial Literacy in the Family Context: The Role of Spousal Education and Gender Among Older Couples." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 475. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1538.
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Abstract Despite recent advances in the literature on the association between one’s own education and financial literacy, the role of the family context in financial literacy has received limited attention. I examine whether spousal education is associated with one’s own financial literacy among older couples and whether this association differs by gender. Using data from the 2016 Health and Retirement Study (n=1,220), I employ a multilevel actor-partner interdependence model to examine the cross-partner effect of spousal education on own financial literacy among older couples. I analyze a set of regression models on pairwise data to estimate the moderating effect of gender. I find that having a college-educated spouse was associated with a higher likelihood of being financially literate and that wives’ education attainment was associated with a higher likelihood of financial literacy for husbands. Understanding the role of spousal education in late-life financial literacy adds to our knowledge about the role of the family context as related to individual financial knowledge and skills. Older adults may acquire financial literacy within the family, such as learning from a spouse.
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Mróz, Teresa. "The functions of the spouse’s consent for the legal actions within the statutory matrimonial property regime." Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej 21 (2022): 199–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/rtk.2022.21.10.
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The teaching of Father Michał Sopoćko which concerns the legal regulations of marriage remains highly relevant. One of the most important basis of functioning a family is establishing the property security. The Polish legal regulations have evolved over the years, we have witnessed various structures of the statutory matrimonial property regimes. Nowadays, at the moment of contracting marriage the spouses establish the community property (matrimonial joint property) which complies a subordinate role for marriage. To strengthen the protective function of the regime it is necessary to obtain the consent of the other spouse for any statutory legal actions.
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Han, Sae Hwang, Kyungmin Kim, and Jeffrey A. Burr. "Social Support and Preventive Healthcare Behaviors Among Couples in Later Life." Gerontologist 59, no. 6 (2018): 1162–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geront/gny144.
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Abstract Background and Study Objectives Intimate partners and close friends represent two major sources of social support that are central to one’s health and health behaviors in later life. The aim of this study was to examine dyadic linkages between perceived social support (from spouses and friends) and preventive healthcare behaviors among coupled-individuals. Design and Methods Prospective data from the Health and Retirement Study (2010, 2012) were used to analyze a sample of coupled-individuals (dyad N = 1,902). A series of multilevel logistic regression (actor–partner interdependence) models were estimated to evaluate whether perceived social support from spouses and friends was associated with the likelihood of using two common forms of preventive healthcare services (i.e., influenza vaccination and cancer screenings). Results Apart from the role of perceived support from spouse on flu vaccinations, wives’ preventive healthcare behaviors were unrelated to perceived social support. In contrast, husbands’ preventive healthcare behaviors showed consistent associations with perceived social support from friends for the 2-year observation period. Further, husbands’ receipt of prostate cancer screening was associated with wives’ perceptions of social support from spouse as well as friends. Discussion and Implications These findings contributed to our understanding of the health advantages associated with being in a marital relationship for preventive healthcare behaviors, especially for men. Future research should unpack the pathways through which social support of various forms is associated with obtaining needed preventive health services.
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Monin, Joan, and Kalisha Bonds Johnson. "ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN HEALTH AND POSITIVE AFFECT IN SPOUSAL DEMENTIA CARE DYADS." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (2022): 400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1574.
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Abstract Little is known about the conditions that foster greater positive affect in the daily lives of spousal dementia care dyads in the early stages of dementia. This study aimed to examine the extent to which multiple indicators of health, including activities of daily living needs, quality of life, and the person with dementia’s behavioral symptoms were associated with each partner’s positive affect in daily life. Using secondary baseline data from a randomized controlled trial testing a stress reduction intervention in 63 couples (N=126), we examined whether individuals’ multiple health indicators were associated with their own positive affect (actor effects) and their partner’s positive affect (partner effects). Actor partner interdependence model results showed that for both persons with dementia and spouses, actor quality of life was the greatest predictor of positive affect, controlling for all other actor and partner health indicators (β=.04, SE=.01, t(67.1)=3.36, p=.001).
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Karademas, Evangelos, and Christoforos Thomadakis. "Dispositional Optimism in Cardiac Patients and Their Spouses: Dyadic Relations to Well-being and Positive Affect." Psychology: the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society 25, no. 1 (2020): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.25364.
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The aim of this prospective study was to examine the relation of a positive personal characteristic, i.e., dispositional optimism, to physical and emotional well-being and positive affect in a sample of chronic cardiac patients and their partners. One hundred and four cardiac patients (25 women; mean age = 64.36 years) and their spouses (mean age = 60.04; all couples were married) participated in the study. Patient and partner dispositional optimism was assessed at baseline; well-being and positive affect, four months later. Τhe Actor-Partner Interdependence Model was used to examine the dyadic effects of optimism on physical and emotional well-being and positive affect. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was applied to run these analyses. In almost all cases, patient and spouse baseline optimism was positively related to their own well-being and positive emotions. Furthermore, patient optimism positively predicted spouse outcomes. However, spouse optimism was not related to any of the patients’ indicators of well-being or positive emotions. These findings provide further support to the beneficial role of optimism, at an intra- and also inter-personal level. Furthermore, they indicate that, even when dealing with severe chronic disease, there are still positive personal characteristics, like dispositional optimism, which may help patients and their partners achieve better adaptation and higher levels of well-being.
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Segel-Karpas, Dikla. "Older Parents’ Cynical Hostility and Their Relationships with Their Adult Children: A Longitudinal Dyadic Study of North American Couples." Healthcare 11, no. 5 (2023): 736. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11050736.
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Older adults’ relationships with their children are often a source of reciprocal emotional and instrumental support, but also of strain. Cynical hostility is a cognitive schema, according to which people cannot be trusted. Previous studies showed that cynical hostility has adverse implications for social relationships. Little is known about the possible outcomes of parental cynical hostility on older adults’ relationships with their children. Two waves of the Health and Retirement Study and Actor–Partner Interdependence Models were used to examine the way spouses’ cynical hostility at Time 1 is associated with their own and their spouse’s relationship with the children at Time 2. Both partners’ cynical hostility predicts his or her own strain in the relationship with the children, and for husbands, their spouse’s cynical hostility also predicts strain. For husbands only, their own cynical hostility is associated with reduced perceived support from their children. Finally, a husband’s cynical hostility is associated with both partners’ reduced contact with their children. These findings illuminate the social and familial costs of cynical hostility in old age, suggesting that older adults with higher levels of cynical hostility may be more susceptible to strained relationships with their children.