{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Wilson SJ"],"funding":["U.S. Department of Agriculture","NIA NIH HHS","National Institutes of Health","National Institute of Food and Agriculture","NIH HHS","Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station"],"pagination":["1014-1025"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9528786"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["56(10)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Extensive evidence shows that satisfying marriages boost physical health and longevity. A separate literature reveals strong concordance in couples' health, but the relationship processes that contribute to health concordance remain poorly understood.<h4>Purpose</h4>The current study examined whether relationship satisfaction and joint health behaviors-the extent to which couples eat, sleep, and exercise together-are associated simultaneously with better health and greater health similarity between partners.<h4>Methods</h4>Heterogeneous variance multilevel models were applied to data from 234 married couples (Mage = 46, Range = 20-84) reporting on their relationship satisfaction, joint health behaviors, and four health indicators-health satisfaction, depressive symptoms,"],"journal":["Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine"],"pubmed_title":["The Implications of Being \"In it Together\": Relationship Satisfaction and Joint Health Behaviors Predict Better Health and Stronger Concordance Between Partners."],"pmcid":["PMC9528786"],"funding_grant_id":["K99 AG056667","R00 AG056667","K99/R00 AG056667","L30 AG06025"],"pubmed_authors":["Wilson SJ","Novak JR"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The Implications of Being \"In it Together\": Relationship Satisfaction and Joint Health Behaviors Predict Better Health and Stronger Concordance Between Partners.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Extensive evidence shows that satisfying marriages boost physical health and longevity. A separate literature reveals strong concordance in couples' health, but the relationship processes that contribute to health concordance remain poorly understood.<h4>Purpose</h4>The current study examined whether relationship satisfaction and joint health behaviors-the extent to which couples eat, sleep, and exercise together-are associated simultaneously with better health and greater health similarity between partners.<h4>Methods</h4>Heterogeneous variance multilevel models were applied to data from 234 married couples (Mage = 46, Range = 20-84) reporting on their relationship satisfaction, joint health behaviors, and four health indicators-health satisfaction, depressive symptoms,","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Oct","modification":"2025-04-05T10:57:45.156Z","creation":"2025-04-05T10:57:45.156Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9528786","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34849523"],"doi":["10.1093/abm/kaab099"]}}