PSYC 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Pain Management, Buda
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Lecture 19 coping in a social life context. It takes two to tango: spousal interrelations in well-being and health. Relative stability in well-being across adulthood (kunzmann, little & smith, 2000) Individual differences in well-being as related to social relationships (antonucci, 2001) Spousal interrelations in a long-term physical and mental health (bookwala & schulz, 1996) Wellbeing and health in midlife and old age o o o. Social contextual approaches to well-being and health o o o. Mechanisms contributing to spousal interrelations in well-being and health o o o. Spouses increasingly derive emotional meaning from their relationship. Marriage as a special social unit in old age. Empirical evidence for spousal interrelations in key domains of functioning. 35 years of longitudinal data from 178 sls couples. M age at t1 = 48 years (sd = 14. 5); m marriage duration at t1 = 26 years (sd= 14. 5); m number of children at t1 = 3 (sd = 1. 6)