These analyses suggest that examining both enduring and fluctuating effects of the health experienced by patients and
spouses on depressive symptoms increases our understanding of the contextual nature of the marital relationship.
Not exact matches
Supportive
spouse behaviors also moderated the effects of visual acuity
on functional limitations and
depressive symptoms (B = 0.88, β =.07, t = 2.01, p <.05 and B = 1.79, β =.09, t = 2.57, p <.01, respectively, for the interaction terms).
Marital therapy has been suggested as a treatment for couples with a depressed
spouse on the basis of the strong association between
depressive symptoms and marital distress; the role played by marital negative factors
on onset and maintenance of
depressive disorders; and the possible buffering effect of interpersonal support and enhanced intimacy
on depressive symptoms.
Effect of immigrant status
on risk of
depressive symptoms associated with
spouse's chronic conditions
This model included the additional time - varying covariates (Level 1) representing (a) the effect of patient self - rated health
on spouse depressive symptoms and (b) the effect of
spouse self - rated health
on patient
depressive symptoms and the time - invariant effects (Level 2) representing (c) the effect of mean patient self - rated health
on mean
spouse depressive symptoms and (d) the effect of mean
spouse self - rated health
on mean patient
depressive symptoms.
On a clinical level, autonomous motives for giving care to one's
spouse with cancer have been found to predict less
depressive symptoms and more experienced benefits after care provision among the caregiving
spouses.