Communally coping with diabetes: An observational investigation using the actor-partner interdependence model.

ABSTRACT: Communal coping is a form of interpersonal coping that involves a shared illness appraisal and collaborating to address illness-related issues. We hypothesized that communal coping among couples in which one person is recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes would be related to better diabetes problem-solving, better mood, greater relationship quality, and less psychological distress for both partners. Communal coping was coded from videotaped interactions in which 119 heterosexual couples discussed difficulties in managing diabetes. Actor-partner interdependence models were performed to isolate associations of actor communal coping and partner communal coping with outcomes, and examined whether the couple-member had diabetes and sex as moderator variables. We expected that communal coping

SUBMITTER: Van Vleet M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6082133 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature