Marital quality, gender, and later-life depressive symptom trajectories
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Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Takashi Yamashita and J. Scott Brown, Marital quality, gender, and later-life depressive symptom trajectories, Journal of Women & Aging, DOI: 10.1080/08952841.2020.1818538
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Women & Aging on 13 Dec 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/08952841.2020.1818538
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Women & Aging on 13 Dec 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/08952841.2020.1818538
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We analyze six waves of data (2006–2016) from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 4,342) to examine how marital quality is associated with depressive symptom trajectories among a group of continuously married older adults. Results show gender parity in how own perceptions of positive and negative dimensions of marital quality are related to depressive symptom trajectories. In addition, spousal perceptions of negative marital quality are positively associated with growth in depressive symptomatology regardless of gender. Spousal perceptions of positive marital quality, however, are associated with lower depressive symptoms only for women.