Predicting Daily Satisfaction with Spouse Responses Among People with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Holtzman, Susan; DeLongis, Anita

doi:10.1007/s12160-015-9728-x

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“…Although we found evidence that esteem/emotional support provision by spouses may lead to decreases in patient pain, we did not find evidence that patient pain leads to shifts in esteem/emotional support mobilization to patients as reported by either the patient or the spouse. These results extend previous research indicating a general beneficial effect of esteem/emotional support to individuals with chronic illness ( Weinberger et al, 1990 ; Rosen et al, 2014 , 2015 ; Beggs et al, 2015 ; Song et al, 2015 ; Hemphill et al, 2016 ). However, this is the first study of which we are aware to examine daily time-ordered associations between esteem/emotional support and patient pain.…”

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Spousal Support for Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Getting the Wrong Kind Is a Pain

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Research indicates that perceived support availability is beneficial, with support available from the spouse particularly important for well-being. However, actual support mobilization has shown mixed associations with recipient well-being. The primary goal of the present study was to go beyond examining the effects of global perceptions of support on recipient outcomes. Instead, we examined the effects of several specific types of support that have been found to be important in the clinical literature. In this study, we followed both members of couples in which one partner was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Patients provided reports on pain for both mornings and evenings across 1 week. Both partners also reported esteem, solicitous, and negative support mobilization received by the patient. We found that patient pain tended to increase across the day following increases in patient reports of negative support receipt and partner reports of solicitous support provision. We also found that patient pain tended to decrease across the day when partners reported increased levels of esteem support provision. Reverse causation analyses indicated higher levels of patient pain may lead partners to increase solicitous support mobilization to the patient. Findings underscore the importance of examining both partners’ reports of support within a dyadic coping framework. They further suggest that not all forms of support are equally beneficial, calling for a finer grained assessment of specific support transactions.

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“…Couples were recruited as part of a larger study on community-dwelling patients with RA ( Holtzman and DeLongis, 2007 ; Beggs et al, 2015 ). This study is the first to report findings from the spouses of these participants.…”

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“…Although we found evidence that esteem/emotional support provision by spouses may lead to decreases in patient pain, we did not find evidence that patient pain leads to shifts in esteem/emotional support mobilization to patients as reported by either the patient or the spouse. These results extend previous research indicating a general beneficial effect of esteem/emotional support to individuals with chronic illness (Weinberger et al, 1990;Rosen et al, 2014Rosen et al, , 2015Beggs et al, 2015;Song et al, 2015;Hemphill et al, 2016). However, this is the first study of which we are aware to examine daily time-ordered associations between esteem/emotional support and patient pain.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…Couples were recruited as part of a larger study on communitydwelling patients with RA (Holtzman and DeLongis, 2007;Beggs et al, 2015). This study is the first to report findings from the spouses of these participants.…”

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Dyadic Coping: A Collection of Recent Studies

Bodenmann¹,

Falconier²,

Randall³

2019

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Dyadic coping is a concept that has reached increased attention in psychological science within the last 20 years. Dyadic coping conceptualizes the way couples cope with stress together in sharing appraisals of demands, planning together how to deal with the stressors and engage in supportive or joint dyadic coping. Among the different theories of dyadic coping, the Systemic Transactional Model (STM;) has been applied to many studies on couples' coping with stress. While a recent meta-analysis shows that dyadiccoping is a robust and consistent predictor of relationship satisfaction and couple's functioning in community samples, some studies also reveal the significance of dyadic coping in dealing with psychological disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety) or severe illness (e.g., cancer, diabetes, COPD, etc.).Researchers all over the world build their research on this or other concepts of dyadic coping and many typically use the Dyadic Coping Inventory (DCI) for assessing dyadic coping. So far, research on dyadic coping has been systematically presented in two books, one written by Revenson, Kayser, & Bodenmann in 2005, focussing on emerging perspectives on couples' coping, the other by Falconier, Randall, & Bodenmann more recently in 2016, addressing intercultural aspects of dyadic coping in African, American, Asian and European couples. This eBook gives an insight into recent dyadic coping research in different areas and countries.

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“…Furthermore, latest research suggests that the stress-coping process in couples should be theoretically and statistically separated into between and within-person components (e.g., Beggs, Holtzman, & DeLongis, 2016;Hilpert et al, 2018). Between-person components capture trait-like aspects (e.g., average support seeking behaviour), allowing us to compare time-invariant and situation-unspecific differences across couples.…”

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Daily and long‐term consequences of support seeking in Chinese couples: Between‐person differences and within‐person processes

Hilpert

Bodenmann

2019

Int J Psychol

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It is widely accepted that support‐seeking behaviour is culture‐specific, such that Asians are less likely to seek support when stressed compared with Westerners. However, mounting evidence is based on the vignette methodology or the cross‐sectional survey and utilised students sample. Little is known about how such behaviour manifests in real life and incurs relational consequences. Moreover, psychological theories predict both differences in support‐seeking behaviour between persons and the variability of such behaviour within persons. The current study aims to explore between‐and within‐person associations between support seeking and relationship satisfaction in Chinese couples. Eighty‐four Chinese couples reported their daily stressors, support seeking behaviour, and relationship satisfaction every evening for 7 days and overall relationship satisfaction before the diary study and 1 year later. We found that support seeking matters in Asian couples: On days when couples sought more support, they would be more satisfied with their relationship. Notably, no negative associations between couples' own support seeking and partners' relationship satisfaction were found. This study advances our understanding of general and temporal support‐seeking processes in Asian couples in the course of everyday life and over time. Results entail important theoretical and practical implications.

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Predicting Daily Satisfaction with Spouse Responses Among People with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Abstract: Several key factors related to support satisfaction were identified. Esteem support appeared to play a particularly important role and warrants attention in future research.

Cited by 5 publications

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Spousal Support for Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Getting the Wrong Kind Is a Pain

Spousal Support for Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Getting the Wrong Kind Is a Pain

Dyadic Coping: A Collection of Recent Studies

Daily and long‐term consequences of support seeking in Chinese couples: Between‐person differences and within‐person processes

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