Ethnic Minority Status, Depression, and Cognitive Failures in Relation to Marital Adjustment in Ethnically Diverse Older Women

Autor:	Luciana Laganà, Taylor Oliver, Therese Spellman, Jennifer Wakefield
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Health (social science) Social Psychology Socioemotional selectivity theory Cognitive disorder Ethnic group Context (language use) Cognition medicine.disease Article Developmental psychology Clinical Psychology Mood medicine Dementia Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology Gerontology Social status
Zdroj:	Clinical Gerontologist. 34:173-189
ISSN:	1545-2301 0731-7115
DOI:	10.1080/07317115.2011.554627
Popis:	The authors investigated the relationship between marital adjustment and ethnic minority status, depressive symptomatology, and cognitive failures among 78 married, community-dwelling, and predominantly non-European-American older women (ages 57 to 89 years). Respondents were screened to rule out dementia. Level of depressive symptoms, self-report of cognitive failures, and marital adjustment scores were obtained. As hypothesized, higher depressive symptomatology and cognitive failures were associated with worse marital adjustment (p < .05 for both). The same was true for membership in a nondominant ethnic group, albeit only when ethnic status was considered outside the context of the other two independent variables. These results have clinical implications and fit within the theoretical framework of the socioemotional selectivity theory (Carstensen, 1992) applied to marriage in older age, a conceptualization formulated by Bookwala and Jacobs in 2004.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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