Daily Spousal Responsiveness Predicts Longer-Term Trajectories of Patients' Physical Function.

ABSTRACT: Everyday interpersonal experiences may underlie the well-established link between close relationships and physical health, but multiple-timescale designs necessary for strong conclusions about temporal sequence are rarely used. The current study of 145 patients with knee osteoarthritis and their spouses focused on a novel pattern in everyday interactions, daily spousal responsiveness-the degree to which spouses' responses are calibrated to changes in patients' everyday verbal expression of pain. Using couple-level slopes, multilevel latent-variable growth models tested associations between three types of daily spousal responsiveness (empathic, solicitous, and punishing responsiveness), as measured during a 3-week experience-sampling study, and change in patients' physical function across 1

SUBMITTER: Wilson SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5467745 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature