Reporting for Double Duty: A Dyadic Perspective on the Biopsychosocial Health of Dual Military Air Force Couples

Lacks, Meghan H.; Lamson, Angela L.; Lewis, Melissa E.; White, Marilyn Domas; Russoniello, Carmen

doi:10.1007/s10591-015-9341-y

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“…Participants tended to be Caucasian with some college education. The majority of studies were community‐based samples; one study included patients recruited from a chest‐pain clinic (Randall, Bhattacharyya, & Steptoe, 2009), and two studies comprised military couples (Lacks, Lamson, Lewis, White, & Russoniello, 2015; Trump, Lamson, Lewis, & Muse, 2015). No studies reported including couples in same‐sex relationships.…”

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A Systematic Review of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Romantic Relationships

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Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an index of the parasympathetic nervous system, has recently gained attention as a physiological component of regulatory processes, social connectedness, and health. Within the context of romantic relationships, studies have operationalized and conceptualized RSA in disparate ways, obscuring a clear pattern of findings. This systematic review synthesizes the rapidly developing literature and clarifies the role of RSA in romantic relationships. We evaluate support for three conceptual hypotheses: (1) resting baseline RSA is associated with better quality relationships; (2) phasic RSA is reflective of changes in threat and connection during couple interactions; and (3) physiological linkage in RSA between romantic partners relates to positive or negative relationship functioning depending on the nature of the linkage (e.g., in-phase vs. antiphase). We identified 26 empirical studies that tested associations between RSA and an index of romantic relationships (i.e., relationship satisfaction). Our findings show that higher RSA is not uniformly "good" for relationships. Higher resting baseline RSA was contemporaneously associated with better quality relationships, yet higher baseline RSA was also unexpectedly associated with relationship violence. Short-term decreases in RSA were found during relationship conflict, though the opposite-phasic increases in RSA during positive romantic partner interactions-was not found due to mixed empirical support. As expected, evidence for RSA linkage was found, though the connection between linkage and relationship functioning depends on the context in which it was measured. We discuss methodological limitations and directions for future research.

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A Systematic Review of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Romantic Relationships

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“…http://www.archivesofpsychology.org (Bergmann, Renshaw, Allen, Markman, & Stanley, 2014). The composition of families involved with deployments might be different for some deployments than for others; deployed women service members might have different experiences than deployed men (Gewirtz, McMorris, Hanson, & Davis, 2014;Kanzler, McCorkindale, & Kanzler, 2011;Segal & Lane, 2016), while dual military couple families might differ from other military families (Lacks, Lamson, Lewis, White, & Russoniello, 2015). Some deployments may have involved greater stress (e.g., PTSD) for service members (Allen, Rhoades, Stanley, & Markman, 2010).…”

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Military Family Research: Methodological Lessons Learned, Often the Hard Way. Updated, With a Eulogy to Dr. Bruce Bell

Schumm

2019

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Some of the advantages and the pitfalls of planning and conducting military family research are discussed. Family theory remains critical to research on military families but needs to be combined with detailed knowledge of the issues faced by military families. The military’s concerns about family privacy can lead to tensions with the researcher’s need to define population and sample characteristics, as well as to obtain high response rates through systematic follow-up of potential survey respondents. Researchers may find an easier path to publication for research that sounds like “good news”, while research that seems like “bad news” may be suppressed, disguised, or managed in a variety of ways. Because of the complexities of military life and military family life it may be very useful to bring military personnel or veterans into your research group when developing and testing theories about military family life.

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“…Higher levels of tonic RSA have been associated with a greater capacity to suppress negative interpersonal expressions (i.e., negative facial expressions or an angry tone of voice) during conflict within romantic relationships (Halford et al., 2007). Additionally, high levels of tonic RSA have been associated with greater marital satisfaction (Donoho et al., 2015; Lacks et al, 2015) and adjustment (Sauder, 2001), relationship quality (Smith et al., 2011), and spousal support (Donoho et al., 2015). Tonic RSA has also been linked to affect ratings during partner interaction tasks such that higher tonic RSA was associated with more self‐reported positive affect and lower negative affect during a partner interaction task (Cribbet, 2013).…”

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Reactivity and recovery in romantic relationships following a trauma analog: Examination of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in community couples

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Emotion regulation has important implications for individual and relationship health. Psychophysiological responses, such as respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), can serve as a key indicator of emotion regulation processes subsequent to a stressor and may be the process by which couples confer health benefits. Moreover, partners in romantic relationships can mutually impact physiological states both during times of stress and times of support. The current study examined physiological reactivity through RSA during a laboratory stress‐induction (i.e., stressful‐film trauma analog) and recovery within the context of a romantic relationship. Sex, relationship health, and individual mental health indicators were examined as moderators of reactivity and recovery. Forty‐five (n = 90 individuals) community couples, primarily White (n = 75, 83.3%), heterosexual (n = 63, 70.0%), and dating (n = 67, 74.4%), were examined. Both partners' RSA were measured continuously through a series of baseline tasks, a stressful‐film task, and a post‐film interaction task. Reactivity and recovery trajectories were moderated by sex, study task (i.e., baseline, film, and post‐film), and individual mental health (ps < .05). Repeated‐measures actor partner interdependence modeling analyses revealed a strong self‐regulatory (i.e., actor) effect across all tasks as well as co‐regulation (i.e., partner effects) during the post‐film interaction task. Findings provided some evidence of stress transmission to the non‐exposed partner. This study offers initial evidence of self‐ and co‐regulation following a laboratory stress‐induction and potential predictors and moderations of the set point and stability of these regulatory dynamics. Implications and future directions are discussed.

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Reporting for Double Duty: A Dyadic Perspective on the Biopsychosocial Health of Dual Military Air Force Couples

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

A Systematic Review of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Romantic Relationships

A Systematic Review of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Romantic Relationships

Military Family Research: Methodological Lessons Learned, Often the Hard Way. Updated, With a Eulogy to Dr. Bruce Bell

Reactivity and recovery in romantic relationships following a trauma analog: Examination of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in community couples

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