Stress spillover of health symptoms from healthy spouses to patient spouses in older married couples managing both diabetes and osteoarthritis

Families, Systems and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 330-343

  Yorgason, Jeremy B ^a   Roper, Susanne O ^a   Sandberg, Jonathan G ^a   Berg, Cynthia A ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Comorbid illnesses; Coping with illness disability; Diabetes; Health; Marriage; Spouses; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SATISFACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84874506569     PISSN: 10917527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030670     Document Type: Article

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