Relationship Quality Among Older Cohabitors: A Comparison to Remarrieds

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (8) ◽  
pp. 1808-1817
Author(s):  
Matthew R Wright
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Union Type ◽  
Quality Relationships

Abstract Objectives Later life marital patterns have undergone shifts over the past few decades, including a rapid growth of cohabiting unions. Despite the increase in older adult cohabitation, research on this population has been slow to keep up. Intimate relationships are linked to well-being and relationship quality is especially important because high-quality relationships offer a number of benefits for well-being, whereas poor-quality relationships often are detrimental. This study compares cohabiting and remarried individuals on two measures of relationship quality. Method Using data from the 2010 and 2012 Health and Retirement Study, I investigate the positive and negative relationship quality of cohabitors relative to their remarried counterparts and whether the association of union type and relationship quality varies by race. Results Across both positive and negative relationship quality, I found few differences between cohabiting and remarried individuals. Black cohabitors report higher positive relationship quality than remarrieds, whereas White cohabitors and remarrieds do not differ. Discussion These findings suggest that cohabiting unions and remarriages are comparable among White older adults, but that Black cohabitors may gain more in terms of positive relationship quality than their remarried counterparts.

Parent-child relationship quality and emotional adjustment among college students: The role of parental financial support

2020 ◽  
pp. 026540752096487
Author(s):  
Anna K. Lindell ◽  
Sarah E. Killoren ◽  
Nicole Campione-Barr
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Parent Child ◽  
Quality Relationships

Many emerging adults experience increases in well-being as they exit adolescence, but college students are at particular risk for emotional adjustment problems, including depression and anxiety. Although receiving financial support from parents may reduce stress and aid emotional adjustment, not all parents are able to provide financial support. Maintaining high-quality relationships with parents may be particularly important for emotional adjustment in these instances. The present study examined whether the quality of parent-emerging adult relationships differed depending on level of parental financial support, and whether parental financial support moderated associations between relationship quality and emotional adjustment. Participants were 260 college students who completed questionnaires during their first and fourth year of college about the quality of their relationships with mothers and fathers, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and parental financial support. On average, parent-child relationships were high-quality, especially when parents provided more financial support. Furthermore, high-quality relationships with parents were related to fewer depressive and anxiety symptoms 3 years later for female students, especially when they received less financial support. However, high-quality relationships along with greater financial support was related to increased anxiety among male students. Results may help colleges and universities developing parent programming understand the nuanced implications of parental support for student mental health.

The Highs and Lows of Love: Romantic Relationship Quality Moderates Whether Spending Time With One’s Partner Predicts Gains or Losses in Well-Being

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 572-589
Author(s):  
Nathan W. Hudson ◽  
Richard E. Lucas ◽  
M. Brent Donnellan
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Relationship Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Romantic Relationship Quality ◽  
Daily Time ◽  
Quality Relationships

Previous research suggests both relationship status and relationship quality correlate with well-being. The present study extended these findings in three ways. First, we benchmarked individuals with various-quality relationships against uncoupled people to determine whether even low-quality relationships are associated with greater well-being than being unpartnered. Second, research suggests global well-being (e.g., life satisfaction) and experiential well-being (e.g., momentary affect) oftentimes have different predictors. Thus, we tested whether individuals report greater experiential well-being while with their partners. Finally, we examined whether daily time invested into one’s relationship predicted well-being. Results indicated that being in a romantic relationship, interacting with one’s partner, and investing greater time into the relationship all predicted greater well-being. However, these effects were moderated by relationship quality, such that being in even relatively neutral relationships and interacting therein were associated with lower well-being than being unpartnered.

scholarly journals Relationship Quality Among Cohabiting Versus Married Couples

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 1730-1753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Brown ◽  
Wendy D. Manning ◽  
Krista K. Payne
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Diffusion Theory ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Union Type ◽  
The Relationship

Using data from the nationally representative 2010 Married and Cohabiting Couples Survey of different-sex cohabiting and married couples, we compared the relationship quality of today’s cohabitors and marrieds. Consistent with diffusion theory and recent conceptual work on the deinstitutionalization of marriage, we found that the relationship between union type and relationship quality is now bifurcated with direct marrieds reporting the highest relationship quality and cohabitors without marriage plans reporting the lowest marital quality. In the middle were the two largest groups: marrieds who premaritally cohabited and cohabitors with plans to marry. These two groups did not differ in terms of relationship quality. This study adds to the growing literature indicating that the role of cohabitation in the family life course is changing in the contemporary context.

scholarly journals Personality Characteristics, Psychological Wellbeing and Academic Success among University Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 805-821
Author(s):  
Bamidele Emmanuel Osamika ◽  
Temitope Lawal ◽  
Adenike Esther Osamika ◽  
Arlette J. Vivian Hounhanou ◽  
Mofoluwake Laleye
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Attending university can be very stressful as students have to go through the process of adapting to new educational and social environments; this experience of difficult change affects student’s psychological wellbeing and subsequently their success in academics. This study examines personality characteristics, psychological wellbeing and academic success among Nigerian undergraduates.While cross sectional design and convenient sampling method were employed, 214 undergraduates were sampled. A structured questionnaire focusing on socio-demographic information, personality profile, psychological wellbeing and academic success was administered to the participants. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result reveals that agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience had a significant positive relationship with psychological well-being, while agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness had positive relationship with academic success; meanwhile, neuroticism had negative relationship with academic success. Furthermore on a regression model, personality characteristics did not independently but jointly predicted psychological wellbeing. Meanwhile personality characteristics independently and jointly predicted academic success. The study conclude that student’s personality characteristics are important for sound psychological wellbeing and effective academic success among Nigerian undergraduates

scholarly journals How Gender Shapes the Effects of Immediate Family Members’ Deaths on Adults’ Psychological Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 93-93
Author(s):  
J Jill Suitor ◽  
Megan Gilligan ◽  
Catherine Stepniak ◽  
Yifei Hou ◽  
Robert Frase
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Time Since Death ◽  
Multilevel Regression ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Face ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The deaths of family members constitute one of the most serious negative life events experienced in adulthood. The impact of these losses on psychological well-being may differ considerably by the structural relationship between the deceased and the survivors, and by the genders of both family members; however, few studies have been able to explore these variations by generation, gender, and time since death. In this paper, we use mixed-methods data to explore how depressive symptoms are affected differentially in adulthood by the deaths of mothers, fathers, and siblings, as well as by the gender of survivors. We address these questions using data collected from approximately 600 adult children nested within 250 later-life families, in which approximately 55% experienced the death of at least one parent and 15% experienced the death of a sibling in the previous decade. Preliminary multilevel regression analyses showed that deaths of siblings predicted sisters’ but not brothers’ depressive symptoms. In the case of parents, only mothers’ deaths were found to predict daughters’ depressive symptoms, whereas neither parents’ deaths predicted sons’ well-being. Further, these patterns differed little by time since death. Qualitative data revealed that women were more likely to report that both their mothers’ and siblings’ deaths had led to higher conflict within the sibling network, which previous research has shown predicts psychological well-being. Taken together, these findings demonstrate the salient role of gender in shaping well-being in the face of events of deaths of parents and siblings in adulthood.

scholarly journals Heterotrophic eukaryotes show a slow-fast continuum, not a gleaner–exploiter trade-off

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (40) ◽  
pp. 24893-24899
Author(s):  
Thomas Kiørboe ◽  
Mridul K. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Ingestion Rate ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Large Mammals ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Fast Gradient ◽  
Using Data

Gleaners and exploiters (opportunists) are organisms adapted to feeding in nutritionally poor and rich environments, respectively. A trade-off between these two strategies—a negative relationship between the rate at which organisms can acquire food and ingest it—is a critical assumption in many ecological models. Here, we evaluate evidence for this trade-off across a wide range of heterotrophic eukaryotes from unicellular nanoflagellates to large mammals belonging to both aquatic and terrestrial realms. Using data on the resource acquisition and ingestion rates in >500 species, we find no evidence of a trade-off across species. Instead, there is a positive relationship between maximum clearance rate and maximum ingestion rate. The positive relationship is not a result of lumping together diverse taxa; it holds within all subgroups of organisms we examined as well. Correcting for differences in body mass weakens but does not reverse the positive relationship, so this is not an artifact of size scaling either. Instead, this positive relationship represents a slow–fast gradient in the “pace of life” that overrides the expected gleaner–exploiter trade-off. Other trade-offs must therefore shape ecological processes, and investigating them may provide deeper insights into coexistence, competitive dynamics, and biodiversity patterns in nature. A plausible target for study is the well-documented trade-off between growth rate and predation avoidance, which can also drive the slow–fast gradient we observe here.

Moderating Effect of Information Asymmetry on the Signalling Role of IPO Lockup Provision

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 917-930
Author(s):  
Norliza Che Yahya ◽  
Ruzita Abdul Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
Initial Public Offerings ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Public Offerings ◽  
True Value ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Lockup Period

This article examines the moderating effect of information asymmetry on the relationship between parameters of lockup provision and flipping activity of Malaysian initial public offerings (IPOs). While the main purpose of lockup provision is to promote commitment of major shareholders for the well-being of the IPO issuing companies at least throughout the lockup period, its role could also extend as a signalling device. Information asymmetry is prevalent in the context of IPOs because information on the issuing firms is normally very limited that the evaluation of the firms’ true value becomes difficult. This study postulates that the lockup provision has a greater influence on flipping activity in higher information asymmetry companies than in lower ones. Using data from 370 Malaysian IPOs issued from January 2000 to December 2012, the results of the multiple regression analyses show that both lockup ratio and lockup period have significantly negative impacts on flipping activities. Since lockup period is uniformly longer (1 year) prior to the 2008 Equity Guidelines revision, the results imply that investors have a greater tendency to flip during the post-2008 revision period when major shareholders are perceived to be less strongly accounted for their firms’ performance. The results also show that information asymmetry moderates the negative relationship between lockup provision and flipping activity, specifically, in regard to lockup period.

Social Determinantsof Health

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Neuropsychological Development ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Fear And Anxiety ◽  
Healthy Community

This book examines the social determinants of health from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on social inequalities and well-being. It analyses the key factors which can lead to poor quality of life, homelessness and reduced mortality. The book begins by looking at early life experiences, which in combination with social networks, exert a strong influence on health and well-being in later life, which in turn are mediated by the development of prosocial behaviour, coping skills, resilience, and optimal cognitive functioning. This requires a healthy mind and body and the motivation to benefit and learn from a supportive environment. The book provides an overview of neuropsychological development and the role of affection, fear and anxiety in early development before discussing social anxiety, communication and socialisation, and the well-being of children. It considers the interrelationships between poverty, child abuse and neglect, with an assessment of social inclusion strategies, troubled families, deviant and anti-social behaviour, and the link between mental health and human distress. Ultimately, the book shows that relative poverty and social capital will provide the resilience for an individual to experience a sense of well-being and lead to successful ageing, while lifestyle choices and the support of a healthy community will reduce vulnerability to negative health behaviours. It explains how personal well-being is related to the availability of personal, family and community resources. The book will enable researchers, front-line workers, managers, service commissioners and politicians to identify and employ the most appropriate health care, social and economic interventions to support those at the edge of the community.

scholarly journals Associations between Relationship Quality and Mental Health during COVID-19 in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 2869
Author(s):  
Christoph Pieh ◽  
Thomas Probst ◽  
Sanja Budimir ◽  
Elke Humer
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Good Relationship ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Poor Relationship

This study investigated the association of relationship quality with several well-being measures during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom. An online survey was conducted on a study sample (n = 682) measuring relationship quality with the Quality of Marriage Index, and well-being measures including quality of life (WHO-QoL BREF), well-being (WHO-5), perceived stress (PSS-10), depressive (PHQ-9), and anxiety (GAD-7) symptoms. Good relationship quality goes along with higher scores in well-being (WHO-5), quality of life (WHO-QoL BREF), psychological domain, physical health, social relationships, environment, and reduced scores in stress (PSS-10), depressive (PHQ-9) and anxiety (GAD-7) symptoms compared with poor relationship quality (p < 0.001). Moreover, 21% of participants living in relationships with poor quality stated that they drink significantly more alcohol since the initial COVID-19 restrictions, compared to 10% of participants with good quality (p = 0.002). Living in a good relationship seems to be an advantage, whereas those with poor relationship quality are particularly more burdened and drink significantly more alcohol during the COVID-19 lockdown.

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship Between Trees and Human Stress in the Urban Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Townsend ◽  
Thomas Ilvento ◽  
Susan Barton
Keyword(s):  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Urban Trees ◽  
Green Vegetation ◽  
Block Level ◽  
Human Stress ◽  
Neighborhood Stress

The research literature describes a positive relationship between seeing plants and human well-being. More rapid recovery from surgery, reduced incidence of neighborhood crime, increased baby birth weight, and increased trust of neighborhood merchants are among the benefits attributed to exposure to trees and shrubs. This study attempted to find a common explanation for these outcomes. It examined the connection between urban trees and neighborhood stress. Each of the stated outcomes can be attributed, in part, to stress reduction. The literature indicated that stress reduction is one of the consequences of exposure to plants. Stress levels were measured at the block level in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., by means of a survey mailed to 2,704 residents. Physical conditions were catalogued using an on-site inventory. The survey and inventory demonstrated that the total number of trees on a block has a strong negative relationship with neighborhood stress and a positive relationship with self-reported health. The results suggest that moderation of stress is one of the factors that underlies the beneficial consequences of exposure to green vegetation on inner-city blocks. This research should prove useful to city planners and urban residents alike.

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