Gender, Neuroticism, and Emotional Expressivity: Effects on Spousal Constraints Among Individuals With Cancer

The authors prospectively tested the hypothesis that emotional expressivity would moderate the predictive relationship between patient neuroticism and spousal constraints among 120 individuals with cancer. The authors also examined whether patient gender further moderated the hypothesized relationsh...

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Published in:Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2005-08, Vol.73 (4), p.769-776
Main Authors: Quartana, Phillip J, Schmaus, Brian J, Zakowski, Sandra G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affect
Affective Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Cancer
Depression (Psychology)
Emotional expressivity
Emotional Response
Emotionality (Personality)
Emotions
Family environment. Family history
Female
Gender
Gender Differences
Human
Human Sex Differences
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Marital Relations
Marital relationships
Marriage
Medical sciences
Mental health
Mental stress
Middle Aged
Neoplasms
Neoplasms - psychology
Neuroses
Neurotic Disorders - psychology
Neuroticism
Patients
Personal relationships
Prospective Studies
Psychological Patterns
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Spouses
Spouses - psychology
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Summary:The authors prospectively tested the hypothesis that emotional expressivity would moderate the predictive relationship between patient neuroticism and spousal constraints among 120 individuals with cancer. The authors also examined whether patient gender further moderated the hypothesized relationships. After we controlled for Time 1 constraints, results revealed a significant emotional Expressivity × Neuroticism effect on Time 2 spousal constraints. This moderator effect was qualified by a significant Gender × Emotional Expressivity × Neuroticism effect, such that neuroticism predicted the greatest levels of spousal constraints among female but not male patients reporting higher levels of emotional expressivity. Thus, female, but not male, patients who report the tendency to both experience and express high levels of distress appear most likely to trigger constraints from their spouses.
ISSN:0022-006X
1939-2117
DOI:10.1037/0022-006X.73.4.769