PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE HEALTH RELATED TO MARITAL INTERACTIONS: A DAILY DIARY CROSS-LAG EXAMINATION

Marital processes have been linked with physical health. Physical health challenges, sometimes due to aging, have also been associated with marital outcomes. Literature has established interrelations between health and marriage, and that connections vary for husbands and wives. Studies examining rec...

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Published in:Innovation in aging 2017-07, Vol.1 (suppl_1), p.29-29
Main Authors: Yorgason, J.B., Choi, H.
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Language:English
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Summary:Marital processes have been linked with physical health. Physical health challenges, sometimes due to aging, have also been associated with marital outcomes. Literature has established interrelations between health and marriage, and that connections vary for husbands and wives. Studies examining reciprocal pathways between health and marriage have used panel data across years. The current study examined such pathways within a daily dairy framework among couples across 14 days. Multivariate multilevel models were used to model cross-lag, actor/partner associations between daily physical and cognitive health and daily positive and negative marital events for 191 older couples. Findings suggest that daily health limitations are predictive of next-day higher positive marital events for husbands and fewer negative marital events for wives. Daily cognitive challenges in husbands were linked to fewer next-day negative marital events for wives. Also, daily negative marital events were linked to greater next-day cognitive challenges for both husbands and wives.
ISSN:2399-5300
2399-5300
DOI:10.1093/geroni/igx004.110