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| Age, marital processes and depressed affect | | Author(s) | Jamila Bookwala, Jamie Jacobs |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 44, no 3, June 2004 |
| Pages | pp 328-338 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Marriage ; Quality ; Depression ; Young adults [20-25] ; Middle aged ; Age groups [elderly] ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Age-cohort differences in the interrelationships among marital processes and depressed affect were examined, using data from individuals in first marriages participating in the US National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH). The NSFH interviewed one adult per household of a national representative sample. Participants were categorized into young (n = 2,289), middle-aged (n = 1,145) and older adult (n = 691) age cohorts. The three age cohorts did not differ on negative marital processes (NMP) - unfairness in allocation of household chores, for example. However, older adults scored significantly higher on marital satisfaction than the other two age groups. NMP were more strongly related to depressed affect for young adults than middle-aged adults, whereas marital satisfaction was more strongly related to depressed affect for older adults than young adults. These findings on age-cohort differences in the salience of marital processes to depressed affect are discussed in the light of socioemotional selectivity theory. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040816202 A |
| Classmark | SL: 59: ENR: SD6: SE: BB: 3KB: 7T |
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