Parameters of marriage in older adults: A review of the literature

Melton, Michael A.; Hersen, Michel; Sickle, Timothy D. Van; Hasselt, Vincent B. Van

doi:10.1016/0272-7358(95)00051-8

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“…The protective impact of marital satisfaction and the impairment associated with marital conflict are well documented within the general health research (Gallo, Troxel, Matthews, & Kuller, 2003;Robles & KiecoltGlaser, 2003). The occurrence of illness and declining health has been associated with reduced marital satisfaction (Melton, Hersen, Van Sickle, & Van Hasselt, 1995). Healthy partners who care for their ill spouse have been found to be particularly vulnerable to marital dissatisfaction (Booth & Johnson, 1994).…”

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The impact of an acute cardiac event on the partners of patients: a systematic review

Randall

Molloy

Steptoe

2009

Health Psychology Review

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Partner support facilitates successful recovery and adjustment following an acute cardiac event (myocardial infarction or coronary revascularisation), but there is limited research examining the partner experience after an acute cardiac event. A computerised literature search was conducted to identify quantitative research investigating the psychosocial impact of an acute cardiac event on the patient's partner. The research base is limited, somewhat methodologically weak and outdated in relation to advances in cardiac care, and little attention has been paid to the experience of non-Caucasian couples, same sex couples or male partners. However, we found that partners are at significant risk of experiencing distress, anxiety and depression that may extend beyond the immediate recovery phase, and may contribute to adverse patient outcomes. Partners contend with significant disruption to their daily functioning and may engage in substantial caregiving responsibilities. Partners describe a lack of social support and information which may contribute to the high levels of distress. Marital and sexual functioning can also be adversely affected. Partner coping strategies and illness perceptions may contribute to adjustment. The findings of this review reveal that partner experience may play an important role in both partner and patient adjustment to an acute cardiac event and there is considerable scope for updating and extending current knowledge of partner experience.

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The impact of an acute cardiac event on the partners of patients: a systematic review

Randall

Molloy

Steptoe

2009

Health Psychology Review

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“…Otherwise both spouse and partner could be responding identically to the same stressor, such as the death of a close family member. For general well-being and marital satisfaction, a review of the literature concluded that the impact of chronic illness could be as strong or stronger for the nondisabled partner than the spouse with the illness, which would be clear evidence of affect contagion (Melton, Hersen, Van Sickle, & Van Hasselt, 1995). Accordingly, if a spouse has negative mood outcomes associated with vision impairment, one would expect his or her partner to be at least similarly impacted on that same mood.…”

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Impact of Spouse Vision Impairment on Partner Health and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Couples

Strawbridge¹,

Wallhagen²,

Shema³

2007

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences an

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Objectives. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of older spouses' vision impairment on the health and well-being of their partners and to test for gender differences.Methods. Participants were 418 older couples from the Alameda County Study. Vision impairment was assessed in 1994 with a 9-point scale assessing difficulty seeing in everyday situations; outcomes were assessed in 1999. Longitudinal analyses included multivariate statistical models adjusting for paired data and partners' own vision impairment, age, gender, chronic conditions, and financial problems. We include results on outcomes for partners' own vision impairment for comparative purposes. We assessed gender differences with interaction tests.Results. Spouse vision impairment negatively impacted partner depression, physical functioning, well-being, social involvement, and marital quality; these effects were not greatly different in magnitude from those associated with partners' own vision impairment. Three of four outcomes with significant gender differences evidenced stronger impacts of husbands' vision impairment on wives' well-being and marital quality than the reverse.Discussion. Spouses do not live in isolation; characteristics of one impact the other. Both treatment and rehabilitation programs should include spouses and other family members of visually impaired patients. Why wives appear more sensitive to their husbands' vision impairment is unclear and warrants further study.

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“…There are many studies on marital satisfaction and the influencing factors on this issue. Melton et al (1995) discussed different parameters influencing a successful marriage. Anderson and Hamori (2000) discussed the most important factors signaling good quality marriage.…”

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A study on relationship between emotional maturity and marital satisfaction

Mosavi¹,

Iravani²

2012

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Marriage is one of the most important events of people's lives and when it happens, it could have both positive and negative consequences. In this paper, we present an empirical study to investigate the relationship between emotional maturity and marital satisfaction using a classical questionnaire. The study chooses all people aged 25-35 who live in region 10 of the city of Esfahan, Iran. The proposed study splits the main hypothesis into five detailed questions, which considers the relationship between marital satisfaction with five other components including emotional instability, return emotional, social maladjustment, close character and lack of independence. The results indicate a negative correlation between marital satisfaction and these items and t-student confirmed that there are meaningful relationship between marital satisfaction and emotional instability, return emotional, close character and lack of independence but there is no meaningful relationship between marital satisfaction and social maladjustment. In summary, the survey concluded that there is meaningful relationship between marital satisfaction and emotional maturity.

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Parameters of marriage in older adults: A review of the literature

Cited by 21 publications

References 36 publications

The impact of an acute cardiac event on the partners of patients: a systematic review

The impact of an acute cardiac event on the partners of patients: a systematic review

Impact of Spouse Vision Impairment on Partner Health and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Couples

A study on relationship between emotional maturity and marital satisfaction

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