Personal goals and social support in close relationships: Effects on relationship mood and marital satisfaction.

1996 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 1006-1019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim C. Brunstein ◽  
Gabriele Dangelmayer ◽  
Oliver C. Schultheiss
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Personal Goals

Personal Goals of Older Female Twins

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katariina Salmela-Aro ◽  
Sanna Read ◽  
Jari-Erik Nurmi ◽  
Markku Koskenvuo ◽  
Jaakko Kaprio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Environmental Effect ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Environmental Influence ◽  
Genetic Effect ◽  
Additive Genetic Effect ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
The Individual

This study examined genetic and environmental influences on older women’s personal goals by using data from the Finnish Twin Study on Aging. The interview for the personal goals was completed by 67 monozygotic (MZ) pairs and 75 dizygotic (DZ) pairs. The tetrachoric correlations for personal goals related to health and functioning, close relationships, and independent living were higher in MZ than DZ twins, indicating possible genetic influence. The pattern of tetrachoric correlations for personal goals related to cultural activities, care of others, and physical exercise indicated environmental influence. For goals concerning health and functioning, independent living, and close relationships, additive genetic effect accounted for about half of the individual variation. The rest was the result of a unique environmental effect. Goals concerning physical exercise and care of others showed moderate common environmental effect, while the rest of the variance was the result of a unique environmental effect. Personal goals concerning cultural activities showed unique environmental effects only.

scholarly journals The Role of Marital Satisfaction and Perceived Social Support on Depression of Empty and Full Nest Elderly

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emran Rabiee ◽  
Maryam Salehzadeh ◽  
Samane Asadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Geriatric Depression Scale ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Empty Nest ◽  
Satisfaction Index ◽  
Nest Group

Background: Elderly psychopathology has a special significance that nest status (living with or without offspring) can make it more complicated. This study aimed to assess predictors of depression in the elderly empty and nonempty nest. Methods: This correlational descriptive-casual and effect research was conducted in elderly day care centers, some city locations such as parks and streets, and retirement department of administrations and companies. Participants who answered 7 of 10 questions of Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT) were entered into the research. 274 valid questionnaires were selected from 350 questionnaires distributed between older adults 60 years old and older. The sample was selected by sampling availability but location and population variations were considered. To collect the data we used the Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale (12 items, MSPSS), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), and Marital Satisfaction Index (IMS). Regression analysis was performed to analyze the data. Results: Depression was negatively correlated with marital satisfaction and all subscales of MSPSS in both groups (empty and nonempty nest). In the empty nest group, the correlation of depression and family (-0.552), significant others (-0.372), and friends (-201) support, and marital satisfaction (+0.552) were significant (p < 0.01). In the full nest group, the correlation of depression and family (-0.435), and friends (-0.385) support was significant (p < 0.01). Also correlation of depression and significant others (0.279) support, and marital satisfaction (-0.424) were significant (p < .05). In the empty nest group, marital satisfaction and family support reversely predicted depression. In the full nest group marital satisfaction reversely predicted depression. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that considering nest status in elderly depression is important and the type and power of variables in predicting depression in empty and full nest elderly are different. The findings of this study can have significant implications for geriatric health professionals.

Social support and psychiatric sickness absence: a prospective study of British civil servants

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. STANSFELD ◽  
G. S. RAEL ◽  
J. HEAD ◽  
M. SHIPLEY ◽  
M. MARMOT
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Sickness Absence ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Chronic Stressors ◽  
Occupational Cohort ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Support At Work ◽  
At Home

Background. Studies on the direct and buffering effects of social support have not examined psychiatric sickness absence and few studies have considered support both at home and at work. This study addresses prospectively the effects of chronic stressors and social supports, at home and at work, on psychiatric sickness absence rates.Methods. Sociodemographic factors, health and social support were measured at baseline, and short and long spells of sickness absence were measured prospectively over a 5-year period. The participants were a subsample of 4202 male and female civil servants, aged 35–55 years at baseline, from an occupational cohort, the Whitehall II Study, who completed detailed social support questions.Results. Support from colleagues and supervisors at work is related to lower risk of short spells of psychiatric sickness absence, particularly for those also receiving high levels of negative aspects of close relationships from their closest person outside work. Negative aspects of close relationships from the closest person increase the risk of taking long spells of psychiatric sickness absence in men. High levels of material problems increase the risk of short spells of sickness absence.Conclusions. Negative aspects of close relationships may have an aetiological role in non-psychotic psychiatric disorder. Social support at work appears to protect against short spells of psychiatric sickness absence. This potentially implies that levels of short spells of absence might be reduced by increasing support at work. Conversely, emotional support at home may influence absence-related behaviour and encourage a person to take absence at a time of illness.

scholarly journals WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND MARRIAGE SATISFACTION ON EMPLOYEES AT BANK X

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-356
Author(s):  
Amalia Juniarly ◽  
Marisya Pratiwi ◽  
Ayu Purnamasari ◽  
Tiara Fajria Nadila
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Marriage Satisfaction ◽  
Social Support Scale ◽  
Work Family

This study aimed to determine the contribution of work-family conflict and social support in predicting marriage satisfaction. Eighty-seven female workers at Bank X who met the study's criteria, such as frontline worker, married with children; were involved in this study. The participants' age ranges from 22 to 45 years (M = 33.5; SD = 3.589). The researchers used the Work-family Conflict Scale (20 items, α = .879), the Social Support Scale (12 items, α = .927), and the Marriage Satisfaction Scale (38 items, α = .946). The data were analysed with multiple linear regression. The analysis results showed the value of R = .743; F(2, 84) = 51.652, p < .05, and it indicates that there is a significant role of work-family conflict and social support on marital satisfaction. Besides, a value of b = -.960, p < .05, was obtained, and it means that there is a significant role of work-family conflict on marital satisfaction and b = 1.209, p < .05 were found, meaning that there is a significant social support role on marriage satisfaction.  

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