ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2018
Drinking Patterns Among Older Couples: Longitudinal Associations With Negative Marital Quality.
Article in The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Social context of drinking among older adults: Relationship to alcohol and traffic risk behaviors.Transportation research. Part F, Traffic psychology and behaviour · 2019Article
- Drinking Together: Implications of Drinking Partners for Negative Marital Quality.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2019Article
- Can Spouses Buffer the Impact of Discrimination on Depressive Symptoms? An Examination of Same-sex and Different-sex Marriages.Society and mental health · 2019Article
- Health and Health Behavior Concordance between Spouses in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages.Social currents · 2018Article
- Couples' Alcohol Use in Middle and Later Life: Stability and Mutual Influence.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2018Article
- Dyadic effects of depressive symptoms on medical morbidity in middle-aged and older couples.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Article
- Alcohol and tobacco consumption concordance and its correlates in older couples in Latin America.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2017Article
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Abstract
Objectives: Research with younger couples indicates that alcohol use has powerful effects on marital quality, but less work has examined the effects of drinking among older couples. This study examined whether dyadic patterns of drinking status among older couples are associated with negative marital quality over time. Method: Married participants (N = 4864) from the Health and Retirement Study reported on alcohol consumption (whether they drink alcohol and average amount consumed per week) and negative marital quality (e.g., criticism and demands) across two waves (Wave 1 2006/2008 and Wave 2 2010/2012). Results: Concordant drinking couples reported decreased negative marital quality over time, and these links were significantly greater among wives. Wives who reported drinking alcohol reported decreased negative marital quality over time when husbands also reported drinking and increased negative marital quality over time when husbands reported not drinking. Discussion: The present findings stress the importance of considering the drinking status rather than the amount of alcohol consumed of both members of the couple when attempting to understand drinking and marital quality among older couples. These findings are particularly salient given the increased drinking among baby boomers and the importance of marital quality for health among older couples.
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