‘My family is making me sick’ – but, for both him and her?: examining the effect of gender on the association between close relationships and health

Roberson, Patricia N. E.; Woods, Sarah; Priest, Jacob B.; Miller, Melanie

doi:10.1080/13229400.2018.1479978

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“…The BBFM has since been used to explain the health outcomes of Latino American adults, its pathways moderated by nativity status (i.e., country of origin as the United States or other; Priest & Woods, 2015). Further, the BBFM applies for both men and women (Roberson, Woods, Priest, & Miller, 2018) and may benefit from the inclusion of allostatic load (i.e., wear and tear of physical systems due to chronic stress exposure; McEwen, 1998) as a measure of biobehavioral reactivity Priest et al, 2015). Most recently, Priest, Roberson, and Woods (2019) tested individual psychobiological mediators by which family strain and support impact health.…”

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

2019

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

2019

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“…The BBFM was intentionally conceived to inspire alternative variable configurations. It has been shown to be useful for studying various emotional and physical diseases and disorders in different age groups, family configurations, and ethnic cultures (Priest et al, 2015 , 2019 ; Roberson et al, 2021 ; Wood, 1993 ; Wood et al, 2000 ; Woods et al, 2020 ). We propose that the BBFM may serve as a prototype for integrative multi‐level modeling that examines family‐psycho‐biologic pathways by which family relational process not only influences childhood disease but also either transmits the impact of socio‐economic stress on a child emotional and physical well‐being, or helps buffer the child from these effects.…”

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“…These are the most elemental aspects of emotional interaction, thus supporting the broad heuristic application of the model. The model is also unique in positing, with evidence to support, that the impact of family relational stress on disease activity is mediated by psychobiologic stress pathways (Priest et al, 2015 , 2019 ; Roberson et al, 2021 ; Wood, 1993 ; Wood et al, 2000 ; Woods et al, 2020 ). The BBFM has been extensively applied to childhood asthma (Miller & Wood, 2003 ).…”

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An application of the Biobehavioral Family Model: Examining the impact of maternal depression on child asthma mediated by insecure attachment and child depression

2022

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Objective: Child asthma disparities are prevalent in socio-economically stressed single-parent families. Stress impacts childhood asthma mediated by immune and autonomic pathways, but specific family stress pathways are not well established. This study tests the hypothesis, derived from a version of the Biobehavioral Family Model, that single parent maternal depression impacts child asthma mediated by insecure attachment and child depression. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, children with asthma (age 7-17 years old) from a socio-economically disadvantaged population and their single parent mothers (N = 202) were assessed for depression and attachment security. Child asthma disease activity was assessed by symptom report and lung function tests. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test a model in which caregiver depression impacts child asthma disease activity mediated by insecure attachment and child depression.Results: SEM results indicated that maternal depression statistically predicted child depression (β = 0.21, p < 0.01) and insecure mother-child attachment (β = 0.17, p < 0.05).In addition, insecure attachment statistically predicted child depression (β = 0.50, p < 0.001). Child depression mediated the adverse effects of maternal depression and insecure attachment on child asthma disease activityThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

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“…Previous studies using the BBFM as a theoretical guide have regularly incorporated measures of emotion regulation and/or depression/anxiety in their operationalizations of biobehavioral reactivity (Priest et al, 2019; Roberson, Woods, Priest, & Miller, 2018; Woods et al, 2014; Woods & Denton, 2014). This study sought to advance this line of research by testing allostatic load and negative affect reactivity as mediating links between family and health.…”

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Family emotional climate and health: Testing conveyance of effects via psychobiological mediators

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2020

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Using the Biobehavioral Family Model and data from five Midlife in the United States projects (N = 793), this study tests whether allostatic load and negative affect reactivity convey the effects of categorizations of family emotional climate on health appraisal and morbidity (chronic conditions) across 20 years. Results indicated that negative family emotional climate (high strain, low support/parental affection) was indirectly associated with health appraisal 20 years later via negative affect reactivity at 10 years. Ambivalent family emotional climate (high strain/support) was directly associated with greater morbidity. Allostatic load did not serve as a significant mediator in the models tested. Findings suggest that family emotional climates marked by strain and intensity may be especially problematic for health, partly by exacerbating negative affect reactivity. K E Y W O R D S daily diary methods, families, health, psychophysiology 1 | INTRODUCTION Overwhelming evidence has established that close relationships impact health. Among types of close relationships, family relationships have the strongest effects. Family members provide greater emotional support than friends and nonrelatives (Shor & Roelfs,

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‘My family is making me sick’ – but, for both him and her?: examining the effect of gender on the association between close relationships and health

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

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

An application of the Biobehavioral Family Model: Examining the impact of maternal depression on child asthma mediated by insecure attachment and child depression

Family emotional climate and health: Testing conveyance of effects via psychobiological mediators

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