ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2016
Marital Quality and Negative Experienced Well-Being: An Assessment of Actor and Partner Effects Among Older Married Persons.
Article in The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
- Spousal Support and Strain in Relation to Concerns About Aging: The Serial Mediating Roles of Life Satisfaction and Attitudes Toward Own Aging.Research square · 2026Article
- Financial Satisfaction in Blended and Nuclear Families: A Dyadic Perspective.Research square · 2026Article
- Discordance in gender role attitudes between spouses and its relationship with the risk biomarkers of cardiovascular diseases: a couple-level analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Exposure and Emotional Reactivity to Daily Stressors in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages.Journal of marriage and the family · 2026Article
- Marital dynamics and daily memory among aging same-sex and different-sex couples.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Perceived spousal similarity in outlook on life: implications for later-life well-being.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Exploring the Potential of a Digital Intervention to Enhance Couple Relationships (the Paired App): Mixed Methods Evaluation.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Article
- Sexual Expression and Subsequent Marital Quality Among Partnered Older Adults.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- The Relationship between Marital Satisfaction and Spiritual Well-Being of Chinese Older Adults: The Mediating Effect of Psychological Security and Aging Expectations.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The role of romantic relationships for sexual minority young adults' depressive symptoms: Does relationship type matter?Social science research · 2024Article
- Who's Worried? Memory, Worries About Dementia, and Marital Strain in Midlife Same- and Different-Sex Marriages: A Dyadic Perspective.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Negative marital interaction, purpose in life, and depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older couples: evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.Aging & mental health · 2022Article
- The relationship between perceived support and depression in spousal care partners: a dyadic approach.Aging & mental health · 2021Article
- Efficient Brain Connectivity Reconfiguration Predicts Higher Marital Quality and Lower Depression.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
- A national longitudinal study of marital quality and cognitive decline among older men and women.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Spousal Support, Spousal Strain, and Loneliness in Older Mexican Couples.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
- Short- and Long-term Effects of Support Visibility on Support Providers' Negative Affect.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
- A National Longitudinal Study of Partnered Sex, Relationship Quality, and Mental Health Among Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2020Article
- Complex assessment of relationship quality within dyads.Journal of community psychology · 2020Article
- The Association Between Spousal Education and Cognitive Ability Among Older Mexican Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
objectivesWe evaluate (a) associations between marital quality (emotional support, strain, and overall appraisal) and three negative aspects of experienced well-being (frustration, sadness, and worry) among older husbands and wives and (b) the relative importance of own versus spouse's marital quality assessments for understanding experienced well-being in later life.
methodData are from the 2009 Disability and Use of Time daily diary supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (N = 722). We estimate actor-partner interdependence models, using seemingly unrelated regression.
resultsOwn reports of marital strain are associated with own frustration, sadness, and worry among wives and are associated with frustration only among husbands. Own reports of marital support are associated with negative emotion among husbands only: higher levels of marital support are associated with less worry. Results from partner effects analyses also are mixed. Husbands' reports of marital strain are associated with wives' elevated frustration levels, whereas wives' reports of greater marital support are associated with their husbands' higher frustration levels. DISCUSSION: One's own and spouse's marital appraisals play a complex role in shaping negative emotions among older adults. Findings suggest that frustration is a particularly complex emotion and a promising area for further study among older married couples.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.