Links of communal coping to relationship and psychological health in type 2 diabetes: actor-partner interdependence models involving role, sex, and race.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Communal coping is one person's appraisal of a stressor as shared and collaboration with a partner to manage the problem. There is a burgeoning literature demonstrating the link of communal coping to good relationships and health among persons with chronic disease.

Purpose

We examined links of communal coping to relationship and psychological functioning among couples in which one person was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. We distinguished effects of own communal coping from partner communal coping on both patient and spouse relationship and psychological functioning, as well as whether communal coping effects were moderated by role (patient, spouse), sex (male, female), and race (White, Black).

Methods

Participants were 200 couples in which one pe

SUBMITTER: Helgeson VS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7168575 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature