Daily hassles,marital functioning and psychological distress among community-dwelling older couples |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of psychology, university of Quebec at Montreal, box 8888, succursale centre-ville, H3C 3P8 Montreal, Quebec, Canada;2. Fernand Séguin research center, Montreal, Canada;3. Department of community health sciences, university of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada;4. Research center of Charles Lemoyne hospital, Longueuil, Canada;5. Department of psychiatry, university of Montreal, Montreal, Canada;1. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA;2. Department of Neurology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA;3. Oregon Center for Aging and Technology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA;4. Department of Neurology, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, OR, USA;5. Layton Aging and Alzheimer''s Disease Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA;1. Laboratorio de Neurobiología de la Memoria, Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, IFIBYNE-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina;2. Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina;3. Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia (FLENI), Buenos Aires, Argentina;4. Departamento de Farmacología, IFEC/CONICET-UNC, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Córdoba, Argentina |
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| Abstract: | ObjectivesThis study attempts to examine the association between stress induced by daily hassles, marital functioning and psychological distress among a sample of older couples living at home without assisted living facilities. Moreover, the study looks to assess the moderator role of marital functioning on the association between stress and psychological distress.MethodsThe study included a representative sample of 508 older couples living at home where at least one spouse was aged 65 years or older. To take into account of the non-independence of the data, dyadic analyses were conducted.ResultsFor men, marital functioning and stress induced by daily hassles explained the variance of psychological distress 4.71% and 2.56% respectively. For women, these variables explained 10.96% and 2.43% respectively of this variance. Results found also that marital functioning can play a protective role between the association of stress and psychological distress among men, but not for women. Men with lower marital functioning present a significant higher level of psychological distress when they present stress than those who do not have stress. For those with high marital functioning, no significant differences have been found on psychological distress between those groups.ConclusionStress induced by daily hassles and marital functioning are significantly related to psychological distress among older people, and, for men, marital functioning can play a protective role in the association between those variables. |
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| Keywords: | Older couple Marital functioning Daily hassles Psychological distress Gender Couples aînés Fonctionnement conjugal Tracas quotidiens Détresse psychologique Genre |
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