Is it contagious? Affect similarity among spouses
Is it contagious? Affect similarity among spouses
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DOI：
10.1080/13607860220142431
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发表时间：
2002-08-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Shippy, RA
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作者：
Goodman, CR;Shippy, RA
情绪传染理论。表明配偶双方都经历了情感或情绪状态。然而，对这一理论的实证支持是有限的。本研究采用二元研究方法，探讨视障长者与其配偶在抑郁症状上的情感相似性。作为对老年夫妇处理残疾问题的调查的一部分，对123名最近视力丧失的老年人及其配偶进行了采访。在压力过程模型的指导下，研究了配偶抑郁症状的预测因素。分层回归分析显示，配偶的种族，健康，照顾评价，自我效能，冲突与其他家庭成员对他们的合作伙伴，他们的合作伙伴的抑郁症状显着预测配偶抑郁症。具体来说，配偶是白色，健康状况较差，经历了更多的照顾负担，有更多的家庭冲突，和较差的自我效能感，更有可能抑郁。进入最后一步，老年抑郁对配偶抑郁的预测有独特的贡献。这一点影响了配偶之间的相似性，这表明，当一方配偶抑郁时，另一方配偶可能会经历类似的抑郁症。
Theories of emotional contagion. suggest that spouses mutually experience affective or emotional states. However, empirical support for this theory is limited. Using a dyadic approach, this study examines affect similarity of depressive symptoms between elders with vision impairment and their spouses. As part of an investigation on older couples dealing with disability, 123 elders dealing with a recent vision loss and their spouses were interviewed. Guided by a stress process model, predictors of spouse depressive symptoms were examined. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that the spouse's race, health, care-giving appraisal, self-efficacy, conflict with other family members regarding their partner, and their partner's depressive symptoms significantly predicted spouse depression. Specifically, spouses who were white, in poorer health, experienced more care-giving burden, had more family conflict, and poorer self-efficacy, were more likely to be depressed. Entered in the final step, elder depression uniquely contributed to the prediction of spouse depression. This points to affect similarity among spouses, which suggests that when one spouse is depressed, the other spouse is likely to experience a similar depressive symptomatology.