{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Chai HW"],"funding":["Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development","NICHD NIH HHS","NIA NIH HHS","National Institute on Aging"],"pagination":["261-273"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9960013"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["63(2)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background and objectives</h4>Within relationships, sexual motives and stress are independent determinants of psychological health, with notable gendered patterns. However, previous research largely focuses on young adults and different-sex couples. Both sexual motives and levels of stress may be uniquely important to psychological health in midlife, and in potentially different ways for same-sex and different-sex couples. This study examined how the associations between sexual motives, stress, and depressive symptoms differ for midlife men and women in same-sex and different-sex marriages.<h4>Research design and methods</h4>Using dyadic data from same-sex and different-sex midlife married couples (N = 830 individuals; 415 couples), we examined the associations of intrinsic (e.g., sex "],"journal":["The Gerontologist"],"pubmed_title":["Sexual Motives, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Among Midlife Different-Sex and Same-Sex Couples."],"pmcid":["PMC9960013"],"funding_grant_id":["R01AG076057","P30AG066614","P2C HD042849","P30 AG066614","P2CHD042849"],"pubmed_authors":["Chai HW","Mernitz SE","Umberson DJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Sexual Motives, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Among Midlife Different-Sex and Same-Sex Couples.","description":"<h4>Background and objectives</h4>Within relationships, sexual motives and stress are independent determinants of psychological health, with notable gendered patterns. However, previous research largely focuses on young adults and different-sex couples. Both sexual motives and levels of stress may be uniquely important to psychological health in midlife, and in potentially different ways for same-sex and different-sex couples. This study examined how the associations between sexual motives, stress, and depressive symptoms differ for midlife men and women in same-sex and different-sex marriages.<h4>Research design and methods</h4>Using dyadic data from same-sex and different-sex midlife married couples (N = 830 individuals; 415 couples), we examined the associations of intrinsic (e.g., sex ","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Feb","modification":"2025-04-22T20:56:53.649Z","creation":"2025-04-06T03:25:20.001Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9960013","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36063367"],"doi":["10.1093/geront/gnac136"]}}