ArticlePsychology & health2021
Associations between partner's diet undermining and poor diet in mixed-weight, older gay married couples: a dyadic mediation model.
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- The Role of Household Social Support and Undermining in Dietary Change.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Trial
- Romantic partner undermining in a behavioral weight loss intervention.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Couples-based health behavior change interventions: A relationship science perspective on the unique opportunities and challenges to improve dyadic health.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Associations of Perceived Stress and Social Support on Health Behavior Changes in Sexual Minoritized Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- The Implications of Being "In it Together": Relationship Satisfaction and Joint Health Behaviors Predict Better Health and Stronger Concordance Between Partners.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022Article
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backgroundPrior studies have examined how individuals may undermine their partner's efforts to maintain a healthy diet, but gay couples have not been represented in this work. Additionally, research has not accounted for mixed-weight status [lighter partner (LP) and heavier partner] nor investigated the mechanisms through which undermining is associated with dietary outcomes. OBJECTIVE/DESIGN/MEASURES: Utilising dyadic data from 224 gay married couples across the United States, we tested associations between perceptions of partner's diet undermining strategies and diet quality with couple food disagreements and depressive symptoms as putative, serial mediators in an actor-partner interdependence mediation model.
resultsResults revealed that more severe diet undermining was associated with both partners' poorer diet quality, which was explained by more frequent couple food disagreements and higher depressive symptoms for both heavier and LPs.
conclusionThese findings suggest that undermining strategies are detrimental to both partners' relational health (increased conflict), emotional health (depressive symptoms) and physical health (diet)-regardless of weight status-and provide valuable targets for prevention and intervention. Our study underscores the interdependence of couple relations in lifestyle changes and specifically highlight the need for health professionals to discuss the partner's indirect or unintended disruptions to the patient's plan.
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