ArticleJournal of marriage and the family2020
The Psychological Toll of Emotion Work in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marital Dyads.
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- Gay Men as Caregivers for Spouses with Dementia: Intersections of Gender and Sexual Orientation.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- 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
- Drinking to Cope Mediates the Association between Dyadic Conflict and Drinking Behavior: A Study of Romantic Couples during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The impact of hearing loss on trajectories of depressive symptoms in married couples.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Relationship Status-Based Health Disparities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Social currents · 2023Article
- Marital Stress and Emotion Work in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages: The Moderating Role of Childhood Adversity.Journal of family studies · 2023Article
- Support in Response to a Spouse's Distress: Comparing Women and Men in Same-sex and Different-sex Marriages.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2021Article
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Abstract
Objective: This study considers how the provision of daily emotion work may affect the psychological well-being of the emotion worker, and how this linkage may vary for men and women in same- and different-sex marriages. Background: Emotion work-work intended to bolster a spouse's well-being by reading and managing the spouse's emotional needs-is common within marital relationships and often gendered, with women more aware of and concerned with emotion work than men. Yet, the psychological cost of performing emotion work is largely unexplored. Method: This study relies on 10 days of daily experiences data from spouses in same- and different-sex marriages (n = 756 individuals). Mixed effects multilevel regression modeling is used to examine how the provision of emotion work is associated with the emotion workers' psychological well-being. Results: Providing emotion work is inversely associated with emotion workers' psychological well-being, especially when provided for a spouse with elevated depressive symptoms. These estimated effects are generally similar for men and women but greater for those married to a man than for those married to a woman, whether in a same- or different-sex marriage. Conclusion: Emotion work appears to adversely affect the worker's own psychological well-being, especially when a spouse has elevated depressive symptoms and when one's spouse is a man. These results point to the importance of dyadic approaches and consideration of gendered relationship dynamics of same- as well as different-sex couples in studies of emotion work and other marital processes.
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