Browsing by Subject "Relationship quality"

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    Relationship Quality Patterns and Disability in Later Life
    (Oxford University Press, 2024-12-31) Sauerteig-Rolston, Madison; Ferraro, Kenneth; Medicine, School of Medicine
    Informed by the life course perspective and stress process model, this study examined the gendered relationship between patterns of relationship quality (identified as high quality, adverse, indifferent, or ambivalent) and the onset of disability in later life. Cross-sectional and longitudinal models were estimated using nationally representative data from the Health and Retirement Study. Logistic regression models were used to examine cross-sectional associations between relationship quality and wave 1 (W1) disability (i.e., occurrence). Weibull accelerated failure-time models were employed to examine the association between relationship quality and age of onset of disability 12-14 years later (i.e., incidence). We tested for moderation between relationship quality and disability by gender. At W1, older adults in adverse relationships had higher odds of disability than older adults in high quality relationships (OR=1.26, 95% CI=1.11-1.44). In addition, men who reported adverse or indifferent relationships had a higher probability of disability than women in adverse or indifferent relationships (respectively, 2nd differences= 0.029, 0.032). Over time, early onset of disability was associated with adverse (β = -0.07, p < 0.001) and ambivalent relationships (β = -0.07, p < 0.001). It is important to consider the complex and multidimensional aspects of social relationships to understand how relationships influence later-life disability. Not only are adverse relationships associated with an earlier onset of disability in later life, but ambivalent relationships, those identified by high levels of support and high levels of strain, are detrimental for physical functioning among older adults.
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    "Technoference" and Implications for Mothers' and Fathers' Couple and Coparenting Relationship Quality
    (Elsevier, 2018-03) McDaniel, Brandon T.; Galovan, Adam M.; Cravens, Jaclyn D.; Drouin, Michelle; Psychology, School of Science
    Technology devices are widely used today, creating opportunities to connect and communicate with distant others while also potentially disrupting communication and interactions between those who are physically present (i.e., technoference or phubbing). These disruptions in couple and coparenting relationships have the potential to negatively impact relationship outcomes. In this two-part study of 182 married/cohabiting couples from the Daily Family Life Project and 239 couples from the Couple Well-Being Project, we examined the role of technoference in couple and coparenting relationship quality and potential gender differences utilizing dyadic data. We found that greater technoference related to greater conflict over technology use, and greater conflict predicted lower relationship satisfaction and poorer perceptions of coparenting quality (Study 1). Using a more diverse sample (Study 2), we again found support for the main pathways tested in our first study, suggesting that results found in Study 1 and in previous work are not artifacts of sampling. As satisfaction, support, and agreement among relationship partners and parents are often critical to relationship health and family cohesion, it is important for couples and families to evaluate, monitor, and be willing to adapt their technology usage patterns so that these patterns do not cause conflict and possibly relationship deterioration over time