ArticleFamily process2021
Mastery and Marital Processes: Mechanisms Linking Midlife Economic Adversity and Later-Life Loneliness for Husbands and Wives in Enduring Marriages.
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- Family stress model pathways to cognitive function in older adulthood.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026Article
- Family stress model pathways in middle adulthood to loneliness in later adulthood: Role of self-mastery.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025Article
- Mediating Effects of Financial Resilience Between Family Economic Adversity and Mental Health: Population Heterogeneity in Multiple Subgroups.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- Midlife family financial strain, sense of control and pain in later years: An investigation of rural husbands and wives.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2021Article
- Midlife Marital and Financial Stress and the Progression of Later-Life Health Problems for Husbands and Wives.Journal of aging and health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Research has documented that loneliness is a major public health concern, particularly for older adults in the United States. However, previous studies have not elucidated the mechanisms that connect family economic adversity to husbands' and wives' loneliness in later adulthood. Thus, using prospective dyadic data over 27 years from 254 enduring couples, the present study investigated how spouses' mastery, as an intraindividual process, and marital functioning, as a couple process, link midlife family economic adversity to spouses' later-life loneliness. The results provided support for three linking life course pathways: an adversity-mastery-loneliness pathway, an adversity-marital functioning-loneliness pathway, and a mastery-marital functioning-loneliness pathway. The results also showed spousal contemporaneous dependencies in mastery and loneliness. These findings demonstrate the persistent influence of midlife family economic adversity on husbands' and wives' loneliness nearly three decades later and elucidate linking mechanisms involving mastery and couple marital functioning. Findings are discussed as they relate to life course and family systems theories. Implications address multiple levels including national- and state-policies and couple-level clinical interventions.
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