SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2021
Disability as an Interpersonal Experience: A Systematic Review on Dyadic Challenges and Dyadic Coping When One Partner Has a Chronic Physical or Sensory Impairment.
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- Turning Everything Upside Down: The Impact of Illness on Romantic Relationships-A SEM-Based Actor-Partner Interdependence Model.Family process · 2026Article
- Navigating uncertainty together: a participatory mixed-method study of counseling services for couples living with multiple sclerosis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
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- Understanding family caregiving and well-being in adult chronic illness: a call for a more comprehensive perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- We-perspective on vision impairment: pathways between common dyadic coping and relationship satisfaction.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Dyadic coping and well-being in early-stage dementia couples.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Flexibly Incorporating the Dyad into Psychosocial Intervention: Considerations for Neuropalliative Care.Seminars in neurology · 2024Review
- Relationships between dyadic coping, marital adjustment, and post-traumatic growth in patients with maintenance hemodialysis patients and their spouses.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- Inclusion body myositis-health-related quality of life and care situation during phases of the "patience journey" in Germany: results from a qualitative study.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2023Article
- Concordance of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Associated Factors among Older Married Couples in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Relationship Between Dyadic Coping with Anxiety and Depression in Infertile Couples: Gender Differences and Dyadic Interaction.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Couples Coping Together: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence and Conceptual Work Across Three Decades.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Perceptions of people with Parkinson's and their caregivers of falling and falls-related healthcare services- a qualitative study.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Chronically disabling health impairments affect an increasing number of people worldwide. In close relationships, disability is an interpersonal experience. Psychological distress is thus common in patients as well as their spouses. Dyadic coping can alleviate stress and promote adjustment in couples who face disabling health impairments. Much research has focused on dyadic coping with cancer. However, other health problems such as physical and sensory impairments are also common and may strongly impact couple relationships. In order to promote couples' optimal adjustment to impaired health, the identification of disability-related relationship challenges is required. Furthermore, ways in which dyadic coping with these challenges may benefit couples could inform researchers and practitioners how to support couples in coping with health impairments. Accordingly, the aims of this study were to systematically review dyadic challenges and dyadic coping when one partner has a chronically disabling physical or sensory impairment. Out of 873 articles identified through database searches, 36 studies met inclusion criteria. The disability-related dyadic challenges identified in the review were changed roles and responsibilities within the couple, altered communication, compromised sexual intimacy, and reduced social participation. These challenges were reported to burden both partners and the couple relationship. Dyadic adjustment benefitted from a we-perspective, i.e., when couples viewed the disability as a shared challenge and engaged in conjoint dyadic coping. The results suggest that patient/care recipient and partner/caregiver roles should be de-emphasized and that disability should be recognized as an interpersonal experience.
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