Hostility, Marriage, and the Heart: The Social
                    Psychophysiology of Cardiovascular Risk in Close Relationships

Smith, Timothy W.; Glazer, Kelly

doi:10.4135/9781452231631.n2

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“…These findings support models suggesting that CVR contributes to associations between marital strain and heightened CVD risk (Rhobles & Kiecolt-Glaser, 2003; Smith & Glazer, 2006), and this mechanism is relevant for both men and women. Although we found no evidence that women are more reactive to marital stressors than are men on traditional measures of CVR (i.e.…”

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Conflict and collaboration in middle-aged and older couples: II. Cardiovascular reactivity during marital interaction.

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Uchino²,

Berg³

et al. 2009

Psychology and Aging

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Marital strain confers risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), perhaps though cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) to stressful marital interactions. CVR to marital stressors may differ between middle-age and older adults, and types of marital interactions that evoke CVR may also differ across these age groups, as relationship contexts and stressors differ with age. We examined cardiovascular responses to a marital conflict discussion and collaborative problem solving in 300 middle-aged and older married couples. Marital conflict evoked greater increases in blood pressure, cardiac output and cardiac sympathetic activation than did collaboration. Older couples displayed smaller heart rate responses to conflict than did middle-aged couples, but larger blood pressure responses to collaboration–especially older men. These effects were maintained during a post-task recovery period. Women did not display greater CVR than men on any measure or in either interaction context, though they did display greater parasympathetic withdrawal. CVR to marital conflict could contribute to the association of marital strain with CVD for middle-aged and older men and women, but other age-related marital contexts (e.g., collaboration among older couples) may also contribute to this mechanism.

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Conflict and collaboration in middle-aged and older couples: II. Cardiovascular reactivity during marital interaction.

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Uchino²,

Berg³

et al. 2009

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“…Since the publication of Burman and Margolin's landmark article in 1992, literally dozens of rigorous research articles have been published describing the impact of marital problems on a variety of health conditions (Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001;Sandberg, Miller, Harper, Robila, Davey, 2009;Umberson, Williams, Powers, Liu, & Needham, 2006). Specifically, research has shown that marital distress is a significant predictor of cardiovascular disorders (Smith & Glazer, 2005), chronic fatigue (Goodwin, 1997), atherosclerosis (Gallo et al, 2003), hypertension (Wickrama et al, 2001), the flare-up of rheumatoid arthritis symptoms (Zautra et al, 1998), and even mortality (Coyne et al, 2001). Individuals in poor-quality marriages are also more likely to engage in high-risk health behaviors (Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001).…”

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Family‐to‐Work Spillover in Singapore: Marital Distress, Physical and Mental Health, and Work Satisfaction

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Family-to-Work Spillover in Singapore: Marital Distress, Physical and Mental Health, and Work Satisfaction Using data from a representative sample (N = 1,026) of married workers in Singapore, this study examined potential family-to-work spillover relationships among marital distress, health and mental health, and work satisfaction. Results from structural equation modeling analysis showed that marital distress was a significant predictor of depressive symptoms, health, and work satisfaction. Health was not related to work satisfaction. Depression acted as an indirect link between marital distress and work satisfaction. No major gender differences emerged from the regression analysis, and approximately 40% of the variance in work satisfaction was explained by the model. Results suggest that marriage-to-work spillover is real and costly for families, organizations, and governments.A significant theoretical and methodological shift has occurred during the last 30 years of marital research. Instead of conceptualizing marital quality solely as an outcome variable, current studies are more prone to see marital quality as a predictor variable, linking it to outcomes of central importance to both School of Family Life, 266 TLRB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 (jonathan_sandberg@byu.edu).

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“…Several robust social-environmental risk factors have been identified, notably isolation, low social support, job stress, and strain in close relationships (Everson-Rose & Lewis, 2005; Smith & Glazer, 2006). Risk factors are often grouped as characteristics of individuals (e.g., personality traits) versus social circumstances (e.g., isolation), even though these sets of constructs are interrelated.…”

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Interpersonal Circumplex Descriptions of Psychosocial Risk Factors for Physical Illness: Application to Hostility, Neuroticism, and Marital Adjustment

Smith

Traupman

Uchino

et al. 2010

Journal of Personality

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Personality risk factors for physical illness are typically studied individually and apart from risk factors reflecting the social environment, potentially fostering a piecemeal understanding of psychosocial influences on health. Because it can be used to describe both personality and social relationship processes, the interpersonal circumplex (IPC) provides an integrative approach to psychosocial risk. In 301 married couples we examined IPC correlates of three risk factor domains: anger, hostility, and aggressiveness; neuroticism; and marital adjustment. Risk factors displayed IPC locations ranging from hostile dominance (e.g., verbal aggressiveness, marital conflict) to hostility (e.g., anger) to hostile submissiveness (e.g., anxiety, depression); protective factors (marital satisfaction and support) reflected warmth or friendliness in the IPC. Similar descriptions were found using self-reports and spouse ratings of IPC dimensions, indicating that interpersonal styles associated with risk factors do not simply reflect common method variance. Findings identify interpersonal processes reflecting low affiliation or high hostility as a common component of risk and indicate distinctions among risk factors along the dominance dimension.

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Hostility, Marriage, and the Heart: The Social Psychophysiology of Cardiovascular Risk in Close Relationships

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Conflict and collaboration in middle-aged and older couples: II. Cardiovascular reactivity during marital interaction.

Conflict and collaboration in middle-aged and older couples: II. Cardiovascular reactivity during marital interaction.

Family‐to‐Work Spillover in Singapore: Marital Distress, Physical and Mental Health, and Work Satisfaction

Interpersonal Circumplex Descriptions of Psychosocial Risk Factors for Physical Illness: Application to Hostility, Neuroticism, and Marital Adjustment

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