Linguistic markers of emotion regulation and cardiovascular reactivity among older caregiving spouses

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 903-911

  Monin, Joan K ^a   Schulz, Richard ^b   Lemay, Edward P ^c   Cook, Thomas B ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular reactivity; Caregiving; Emotion; Linguistic content; Suffering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; COGNITION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CAREGIVERS; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84874494771     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027418     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Bonanno, G. A., & Field, N. P. (2001). Examining the delayed grief hypothesis across five years of bereavement. American Behavioral Scientist, 44, 798-806.
2. Bonnano, G. A. (2004). Loss, trauma, and human resilience: Have we underestimated the human capacity to thrive after extremely aversive events? American Psychologist, 59, 20-28. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.59.1.20
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2004). Facts about prevalence of arthritis- U.S., 2004. Atlanta, GA: Author.
4. Chida, Y., & Steptoe, A. (2010). Greater cardiovascular responses to laboratory mental stress are associated with poor subsequent cardiovascular risk status: A meta-analysis of prospective evidence. Hypertension 55, 1026-1032. doi:10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.146621
5. Eisenberger, N. I., Kemeny, M. E., & Wyatt, G. E. (2003). Psychological inhibition and CD4 T-cell levels in HIV-seropositive women. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 54, 213-224. doi:10.1016/S0022-3999 (02)00473-7
6. Enders, C. K., & Tofighi, D. (2007). Centering predictor variables in cross-sectional multilevel models: A new look at an old issue. Psychological Methods, 12, 121-138. doi:10.1037/1082-989X.12.2.121
7. Epstein, E. M., Sloan, D. M., & Marx, B. P. (2005). Getting to the heart of the matter: Written disclosure, gender, and heart rate. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 413-419. doi:10.1097/01.psy.0000160474.82170.7b
8. Epstein, S., Pacini, R., Denes-Raj, V., & Heier, H. (1996). Individual differences in intuitive-experiential and analytical-rational thinking styles. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 390-405. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.71.2.390
9. Feldman, P. J., Cohen, S., Hamrick, N., & Lepore, S. J. (2004). Psychological stress, appraisal, emotion and cardiovascular response in a public speaking task. Psychology & Health, 19, 353-368. doi:10.1080/ 0887044042000193497
10. Folkman, S., & Moskowitz, J. T. (2000). Positive affect and the other side of coping. American Psychologist, 55, 647-654. doi:10.1037/0003066X.55.6.647
11. Francis, M. E., & Pennebaker, J. W. (1993). LIWC: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (Tech Rep.). Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University.
12. Fredrickson, B. L. (1998). What good are positive emotions? Review of General Psychology, 2, 300-319. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.2.3.300
13. Fredrickson, B. L., & Levenson, R. W. (1998). Positive emotions speed recovery from the cardiovascular sequelae of negative emotions. Cognition & Emotion, 12, 191-220. doi:10.1080/026999398379718
14. Graham, J. E., Glaser, R., Loving, T. J., Malrakey, W. B., Stowell, J. R., & Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K. (2009). Cognitive word use during marital conflict and increases in proinflammatory cytokines. Health Psychology, 28, 621-630. doi:10.1037/a0015208
15. Gross, J. J. (1998). Antecedentand response-focused emotion regulation: Divergent consequences for experience, expression, and physiology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 224-237. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.1.224
16. Gross, J. J. (2002). Emotion regulation: Affective, cognitive, and social consequences. Psychophysiology, 39, 281-291. doi:10.1017/ S0048577201393198
17. Hill, R. D. (2011). A positive aging framework for guiding geropsychology interventions. Behavioral Therapy, 42, 66-77. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2010.04.006
18. Jennings, J. R., Kamarck, T. W., Everson-Rose, S. A., Kaplan, G. A., Manuck, S. B., & Salonen, J. T. (2004). Exaggerated blood pressure responses during mental stress are prospectively related to enhanced carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged Finnish men. Circulation, 110, 2198-2203. doi:10.1161/01.CIR.0000143840.77061.E9
19. Lazarus, R. S. (1966). Psychological stress and the coping process. New York: McGraw-Hill.
20. Lazarus, R. S., & Folkman, S. (1984). Stress, appraisal, and coping. New York: Springer.
21. Lazarus, R. S., Kanner, A. D., & Folkman, S. (1980). Emotions: A cognitive-phenomenological analysis. In R. Plutchik & H. Kellerman (Eds.), Theories of emotion (pp. 189-217). New York: Academic Press.
22. Locke, H., & Wallace, K. (1959). Short marital-adjustment and prediction tests: Their reliability and validity. Marriage and Family Living, 21, 251-255. doi:10.2307/348022
23. Low, C. A., Stanton, A. L., & Danoff-Burg, S. (2006). Expressive disclosure and benefit finding among breast cancer patients: Mechanisms for positive health effects. Health Psychology, 25, 181-189. doi:10.1037/ 0278-6133.25.2.181
24. Mackenzie, C. S., Wiprzycka, U. J., Hasher, L., & Goldstein, D. (2008). Seeing the glass half full: Optimistic expressive writing improves mental health among chronically stressed caregivers. British Journal of Health Psychology, 13, 73-76. doi:10.1348/135910707X251153
25. Manuck, S. B., Kaplan, J. R., Adams, M. R., & Clarkson, T. B. (1989). Behaviorally elicited heart rate reactivity and atherosclerosis in female cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). Psychosomatic Medicine, 3, 306-318.
26. Manuck, S. B., Marsland, A. L., Kaplan, J. R., & Williams, J. K. (1995). The pathogenicity of behavior and its neuroendocrine mediation: An example from coronary artery disease. Psychosomatic Medicine, 57, 275-283.
27. Monin, J. K., & Schulz, R. (2009). Interpersonal effects of suffering in older adult caregiving relationships. Psychology and Aging, 24, 681-695. doi:10.1037/a0016355
28. Monin, J. K., Schulz, R., Martire, L. M., Jennings, J. R., Lingler, J. H., & Greenberg, M. S. (2010). Spouses' cardiovascular reactivity to their partners' suffering. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 65B, 195-201. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbp133
29. Nezlek, J. B. (2001). Multilevel random coefficient analyses of eventand interval-contingent data in social and personality psychology research. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 771-785. doi:10.1177/ 0146167201277001
30. Pennebaker, J. W., & Francis, M. E. (1996). Cognitive, emotional and language processes in disclosure. Cognition and Emotion, 10, 601-626. doi:10.1080/026999396380079
31. Pennebaker, J. W., & King, L. A. (1999). Linguistic styles: Language use as an individual difference. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1296-1312. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1296
32. Pennebaker, J. W., Mayne, T. J., & Francis, M. E. (1997). Linguistic predictors of adaptive bereavement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 863-871. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.72.4.863
33. Pfeiffer, E. (1975). A short portable mental status questionnaire for the assessment of organic brain deficit in elderly patients. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 23, 433-441.
34. Pressman, S. D., & Cohen, S. (2007). Use of social words in autobiographies and longevity. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 262-269. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31803cb919
35. Radloff, L. S. (1977). The CES-D scale: A self report depression scale for research in the general population. Applied Psychological Measurement, 1, 385-401. doi:10.1177/014662167700100306
36. Rivkin, I. D., Gustafson, J., Weingarten, I., & Chin, D. (2006). The effects of expressive writing on adjustment to HIV. AIDS and Behavior, 10, 13-26. doi:10.1007/s10461-005-9051-9
37. Simmons, R. A., Gordon, P. C., & Chambless, D. L. (2005). Pronouns in marital interaction: What do "you" and "I" say about marital health? Psychological Science, 16, 932-936. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280 .2005.01639.x
38. Snijders, T., & Bosker, R. (1999). Multilevel analysis: An introduction to basic and advanced multilevel modeling. London: Sage.
39. Tugade, M. M., Fredrickson, B. L., & Barrett, L. F. (2004). Psychological resilience and positive emotional granularity: Examining the benefits of positive emotions on coping and health. Journal of Personality, 72, 1161-1190. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2004.00294.x
40. Vitaliano, P. P., Russo, J., Bailey, S. L., Young, H. M., & McCann, B. S. (1993). Psychosocial factors associated with cardiovascular reactivity in older adults. Psychosomatic Medicine, 55, 164-177.
41. Vitaliano, P. P., Zhang, J., & Scanlan, J. M. (2003). Is caregiving hazardous to one's physical health? A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 946-972. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.129.6.946
42. Zautra, A. J., Berkhof, J., & Nicolson, N. A. (2002). Changes in affect interrelations as a function of stressful events. Cognition and Emotion, 16, 2, 309-318.