Close Relationships Matter: Family Well-being and its Effects on Health in Russia

Kravchenko, Zhanna; Stickley, Andrew; Koyanagi, Ai

doi:10.1080/09668136.2015.1100370

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“…Recent research investigating the administration of multiple family functioning measures found results differed depending on the constellation of family members whom respondents reported considering when completing the measures (Priest et al, 2018). The research reviewed herein, at times intentionally, declined to define “family” (e.g., Kravchenko et al, 2015). Instead, we recommend future families and health researchers survey participants regarding which family member or relationship they are describing when completing family functioning measures.…”

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“…Second, Widmer, Girardin, and Ludwig (2018) investigated family conflict structures, including conflict density and adults' centrality in the conflict, and their impact on health‐related quality of life. Third, Kravchenko, Stickley, and Koyanagi (2015) investigated associations between family functioning and health outcomes for 1,190 Russian adults, demonstrating strong connections between worse family functioning (i.e., categorized as either normal/calm or tense/frequent rows, vs. the reference group of good/friendly family relations) and worse self‐rated physical health.…”

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“…Of note, none of these articles defined the construct of “family.” For example, both Widmer et al (2018) and Kravchenko et al (2015) purposefully left the term “family” open‐ended, such that participants responded to family conflict items describing whomever they considered to be family involved in their lives (whether or not they coresided).…”

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A systemic approach to researching families and health should capture the complex network within which family members are embedded, including multiple family relationships and larger systems of health care. However, much of the families and health research focused on adult family members has focused solely on intimate partnerships, usually the marital relationship. This neglects the remainder of the powerfully influencing family relationships adults retain, and may increasingly focus on as they age. We conducted a systematic review of the families and adult health literature, retaining 72 articles which were subsequently thematically coded to highlight main foci of this area of research. Results highlight six themes, which include family relationship quality, family composition, behavioral factors in health and health care, psychophysiological mediators, caregiving, and aging health. Findings support an underrepresentation of family members, other than the intimate partner, in research on adult health.

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“…Research shows that the presence of warm interpersonal relationships within families is an important prerequisite of good health amongst the family members. The opposite is also true -when stressful interactions and relationship quality in the family are present, the health and wellbeing of individuals is not only compromised but also eroded (Kravchenko, Stickley, & Koyanagi, 2015). Moreover, research shows that when the relationship quality between a couple is poor, it inevitably spills over onto the parenting relationship and compromises it.…”

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Falzon¹

2019

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Family wellbeing is looked at as a multi-dimensional concept comprising the physical, social, economic and psychological wellbeing. These different elements in families are dynamic in nature and are in turn also shaped by social, economic, political and psychological processes in society. Local research indicates that similar to other countries in the world, heterogeneity in Maltese couple relationships is the mark of the 21st century. What seems to be constant however, is that being in a warm and supportive couple relationship is associated with the highest level of life satisfaction. This also applies to parent-child relationships. Income adequacy is discussed as a major predictor of life satisfaction. Other major wellbeing concerns include public health issues such as obesity, alcohol consumption and the high incidence of circulatory diseases. Finally worry over poor air quality also has an important influence on Maltese families' wellbeing.

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“…A universal homogeneity of the first cluster could be explained by exhibiting some differences in self-assessed health than it could be in reality. Indicators of self-rated health focus on the individual's perception of health and despite being often used as a proxy for independent "objective" measurements of health outcomes, it is vulnerable to bias from a socially desirable/prescribed response set (Kravchenko et al, 2015).…”

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Although Russia manifests some dynamics in its national policy on ageing, it still lacks comprehensive tools for the older generation wellbeing assessment both on national and regional levels. This research work is an ongoing project aimed at the development of the composite index (composite indicator) to assess the elderly population wellbeing in Russia for cross-regional comparison to equip Russian policy-makers with an essential tool and relevant reliable data to facilitate the decision-making and policy design at national, regional and local levels. The paper discusses the possibility of selecting relevant data from the pool of the official state statistics indicators to assess the elderly generation's wellbeing in 85 regions of the Russian Federation by four index domains (economic, social, health and regional environment dimensions). Due to a high geographical and territorial heterogeneity, this index can be advised to be adopted as a potential tool to monitor wellbeing across Russian regions with the focus on policy development for macro-regions. This grouping of regions can minimize transaction costs of bargaining on behalf of the 85 regions while developing national policies and strategies. The paper employs the Russian Elderly Wellbeing Index (REWI) to compare calculation results for 2014 and 2016 as well as addresses the issue of elderly population wellbeing analysis on the meso level in the context of federal districts. The authors run cluster analysis for the REWI indicators to compare clusters of Russian regions and federal districts.

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Close Relationships Matter: Family Well-being and its Effects on Health in Russia

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The Critical Need to Recognize That Families Matter for Adult Health: A Systematic Review of the Literature

The Critical Need to Recognize That Families Matter for Adult Health: A Systematic Review of the Literature

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