Melissa M Franks
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 175210 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Melissa M Franks |
| NOMBRES | Melissa M |
| APELLIDO | Franks |
| FIRMA | FRANKS M M |
| AFILIACIONES | Purdue University, USA |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 186 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Effects of spousal, friend, and family relationships on marital instability across the first 16 years of marriage
We applied marital stress and stability frameworks to investigate how spousal, family, and friend dynamics contribute to marital instability risks during the first 16 years of marriage. Using longitudinal data from the Early Years of Marriage Project and a within-person approach, we examined how family and friend relationships temper or amplify marital risks in couples’ more troublesome years. We also considered the sociocultural contexts of gend…
Poorer subjective hearing is associated with less frequent and more negative social interactions in older adults
These results support the possibility that impaired hearing may affect the quality of routine social interactions, potentially increasing the risk of social isolation and loneliness
Spouses' responses to the dietary nonadherence of their partners managing diabetes
The association between patients' dietary nonadherence and spouses' involvement in patients' diabetes diet was examined, with spouses' anxiety about nonadherence considered as a mediator of this association. Daily diary data from 128 older adult patients with type 2 diabetes and their spouses were analyzed using multilevel models. Results revealed that on days when patients reported less adherence to their diabetes diet than usual, spouses report…
Short- and Long-term Effects of Support Visibility on Support Providers' Negative Affect
Findings from the current study pinpoint support visibility as a protective factor that may mitigate negative short- and long-term effects of spousal instrumental support provision on spouses' negative affect. Promoting patients' awareness of their spouses' support may offset negative emotional consequences of caregiving in the context of chronic health stressors
Emotion expression, avoidance and psychological health during reintegration
We evaluated the extent to which military service members' and their significant others' coping strategies (i.e., individual use of emotion expression and avoidance) were independently associated with their own-and each other's-psychological health during reintegration using an actor-partner interdependence model. We simultaneously evaluated actor associations (e.g., associations between service members' own coping and psychological health) and p…
Emotional reactivity to daily stress, spousal emotional support, and fasting blood glucose among patients with type 2 diabetes
Stress is associated with higher blood glucose in patients with diabetes, but the strength of this association varies considerably across patients. The current daily diary study of 129 patients with type 2 diabetes examined whether individual differences in emotional stress reactivity were associated with fasting blood glucose and whether emotional support provided by spouses moderated this association. Greater stress reactivity was related to gr…
Spousal undermining of older diabetic patients' disease management
Marriage can enhance health for individuals with a chronic disease, yet spouses may also undermine disease management. The current study investigated spousal undermining of dietary regimen in 129 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. A total of 40 patients reported that their spouses tempted them with forbidden foods, and 15 reported that their spouses conveyed disregard for their diabetic diet. Spousal tempting was associated with worse dietar…
Daily symptoms, distress and interaction quality among couples coping with type 2 diabetes
In this electronic diary study ( N = 127 couples), we examined how a diabetic partner's symptoms and distress are associated with relationship interactions over 24 days. Using dyadic multilevel models, we examined the effects of patients' daily diabetes symptom severity and diabetes-specific distress on each partner's evaluations of their daily interaction enjoyment and tension. For both patients and spouses, diabetes symptoms were associated wit…
Are spouses of chronically ill partners burdened by exerting health-related social control
Spouses often seek to influence the health behaviors of chronically ill partners, but little research has examined whether spouses find such involvement to be burdensome. The current study examined this question in a sample of 191 nondiabetic spouses whose partners had type 2 diabetes. Results revealed that spouses who attempted to exert more control over their partners' dietary behavior experienced greater burden, particularly when their partner…
When does spousal social control provoke negative reactions in the context of chronic illness? The pivotal role of patients' expectations
Spouses often monitor and seek to alter each other's health behavior, but such social control attempts can provoke behavioral resistance and emotional distress. Expectations regarding spouses' roles in their partners' health may influence reactions to spousal social control, with resistance and hostility less likely to occur among people who believe spouses should be involved in their partners' health. Evidence consistent with this idea emerged i…
Who Gets What and Why? Help Middle-Aged Adults Provide to Parents and Grown Children
Discussion integrates solidarity theory, developmental stake, and contingency theory. Most middle-aged adults provide more to grown offspring than to parents, consistent with their greater stake in their progeny. Middle-aged adults also respond to crises (i.e., parental disability) and everyday needs (i.e., offspring student status) in providing intergenerational support, in accordance with contingency theory
Moderating Role of Marital Quality in Older Adults' Depressed Affect
We examine the role of three indicators of marital quality (marital disagreement, marital happiness, and time spent together) as moderators of the association between physical disability and depressed affect among married older individuals (N=1,044). We found support for the moderating role of marital disagreement wherein the detrimental effect of disability on depressed affect was significantly heightened among older adults with more disagreemen…
Aid and Influence
Dyadic exchanges of support and control were investigated in couples in which the husband was recently treated or assessed for heart disease. Each partner in 61 marital dyads ( N = 122 participants) reported the frequency with which both social support and social control to promote a healthy lifestyle were provided to and received from one another. Multivariate findings demonstrated the influence of intrapersonal (or actor) and interpersonal (or …
Health-Related Interactions and the Self in Marriage
This study investigated the association between self processes and married partners' (N = 59 couples) perspectives of their health-related social interactions. Findings revealed that wives' self processes were associated with their social behavior from the perspective of each partner. The wives' self processes differentially predicted wives' and husbands' perspectives of their interactions, however. These findings demonstrate that wives' future e…
It Takes Two
These findings suggest that initiation and maintenance of this positive lifestyle change may be more easily achieved when both marital partners are given information and support to quit smoking at the same time
Multiple Roles of Women Caregivers
We examined relationships between feelings of mastery and self-esteem in a given role (role adequacy) and caregivers' social and psychological well-being over time. Seventy-five women who occupied the roles of caregiver, mother and wife were assessed twice over a two-month interval. Caregiver role adequacy predicted greater family cohesion and marital satisfaction, wife role adequacy predicted greater family cohesion, and mother role adequacy pre…
Social Support in the Context of Caregiving
The purpose of this study was to identify ways in which social support is related to the caregiving stress and well-being experienced by adult daughter caregivers. The study focused on a specific source of support, caregivers' husbands, and included reports from 126 caregivers and their husbands. Main and buffering effects of four types of support (emotional and instrumental support provided to the caregiver and to her parent) were tested, and ca…
Spillover between Daughters' Roles as Caregiver and Wife
This research examined how the roles of caregiver and wife affect one another, both positively and negatively, and how such "spillover" effects are related to caregivers' well-being. Spillover was assessed both from the perspective of 125 adult daughter caregivers and their husbands. Husbands reported less negative spillover and more positive spillover from the caregiver role to the wife role than did caregivers. Caregivers reported less positive…
Who Gets What and Why? Help Middle-Aged Adults Provide to Parents and Grown Children
Discussion integrates solidarity theory, developmental stake, and contingency theory. Most middle-aged adults provide more to grown offspring than to parents, consistent with their greater stake in their progeny. Middle-aged adults also respond to crises (i.e., parental disability) and everyday needs (i.e., offspring student status) in providing intergenerational support, in accordance with contingency theory
When does spousal social control provoke negative reactions in the context of chronic illness? The pivotal role of patients' expectations
Spouses often monitor and seek to alter each other's health behavior, but such social control attempts can provoke behavioral resistance and emotional distress. Expectations regarding spouses' roles in their partners' health may influence reactions to spousal social control, with resistance and hostility less likely to occur among people who believe spouses should be involved in their partners' health. Evidence consistent with this idea emerged i…
Spousal undermining of older diabetic patients' disease management
Marriage can enhance health for individuals with a chronic disease, yet spouses may also undermine disease management. The current study investigated spousal undermining of dietary regimen in 129 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. A total of 40 patients reported that their spouses tempted them with forbidden foods, and 15 reported that their spouses conveyed disregard for their diabetic diet. Spousal tempting was associated with worse dietar…
Moderating Role of Marital Quality in Older Adults' Depressed Affect
We examine the role of three indicators of marital quality (marital disagreement, marital happiness, and time spent together) as moderators of the association between physical disability and depressed affect among married older individuals (N=1,044). We found support for the moderating role of marital disagreement wherein the detrimental effect of disability on depressed affect was significantly heightened among older adults with more disagreemen…
Aid and Influence
Dyadic exchanges of support and control were investigated in couples in which the husband was recently treated or assessed for heart disease. Each partner in 61 marital dyads ( N = 122 participants) reported the frequency with which both social support and social control to promote a healthy lifestyle were provided to and received from one another. Multivariate findings demonstrated the influence of intrapersonal (or actor) and interpersonal (or …
Are spouses of chronically ill partners burdened by exerting health-related social control
Spouses often seek to influence the health behaviors of chronically ill partners, but little research has examined whether spouses find such involvement to be burdensome. The current study examined this question in a sample of 191 nondiabetic spouses whose partners had type 2 diabetes. Results revealed that spouses who attempted to exert more control over their partners' dietary behavior experienced greater burden, particularly when their partner…
Spillover between Daughters' Roles as Caregiver and Wife
This research examined how the roles of caregiver and wife affect one another, both positively and negatively, and how such "spillover" effects are related to caregivers' well-being. Spillover was assessed both from the perspective of 125 adult daughter caregivers and their husbands. Husbands reported less negative spillover and more positive spillover from the caregiver role to the wife role than did caregivers. Caregivers reported less positive…
Social Support in the Context of Caregiving
The purpose of this study was to identify ways in which social support is related to the caregiving stress and well-being experienced by adult daughter caregivers. The study focused on a specific source of support, caregivers' husbands, and included reports from 126 caregivers and their husbands. Main and buffering effects of four types of support (emotional and instrumental support provided to the caregiver and to her parent) were tested, and ca…
It Takes Two
These findings suggest that initiation and maintenance of this positive lifestyle change may be more easily achieved when both marital partners are given information and support to quit smoking at the same time
Spouses' responses to the dietary nonadherence of their partners managing diabetes
The association between patients' dietary nonadherence and spouses' involvement in patients' diabetes diet was examined, with spouses' anxiety about nonadherence considered as a mediator of this association. Daily diary data from 128 older adult patients with type 2 diabetes and their spouses were analyzed using multilevel models. Results revealed that on days when patients reported less adherence to their diabetes diet than usual, spouses report…
Daily symptoms, distress and interaction quality among couples coping with type 2 diabetes
In this electronic diary study ( N = 127 couples), we examined how a diabetic partner's symptoms and distress are associated with relationship interactions over 24 days. Using dyadic multilevel models, we examined the effects of patients' daily diabetes symptom severity and diabetes-specific distress on each partner's evaluations of their daily interaction enjoyment and tension. For both patients and spouses, diabetes symptoms were associated wit…
Emotion expression, avoidance and psychological health during reintegration
We evaluated the extent to which military service members' and their significant others' coping strategies (i.e., individual use of emotion expression and avoidance) were independently associated with their own-and each other's-psychological health during reintegration using an actor-partner interdependence model. We simultaneously evaluated actor associations (e.g., associations between service members' own coping and psychological health) and p…
Short- and Long-term Effects of Support Visibility on Support Providers' Negative Affect
Findings from the current study pinpoint support visibility as a protective factor that may mitigate negative short- and long-term effects of spousal instrumental support provision on spouses' negative affect. Promoting patients' awareness of their spouses' support may offset negative emotional consequences of caregiving in the context of chronic health stressors
Spillover between Daughters' Roles as Caregiver and Wife
This research examined how the roles of caregiver and wife affect one another, both positively and negatively, and how such "spillover" effects are related to caregivers' well-being. Spillover was assessed both from the perspective of 125 adult daughter caregivers and their husbands. Husbands reported less negative spillover and more positive spillover from the caregiver role to the wife role than did caregivers. Caregivers reported less positive…
Social Support in the Context of Caregiving
The purpose of this study was to identify ways in which social support is related to the caregiving stress and well-being experienced by adult daughter caregivers. The study focused on a specific source of support, caregivers' husbands, and included reports from 126 caregivers and their husbands. Main and buffering effects of four types of support (emotional and instrumental support provided to the caregiver and to her parent) were tested, and ca…
Multiple Roles of Women Caregivers
We examined relationships between feelings of mastery and self-esteem in a given role (role adequacy) and caregivers' social and psychological well-being over time. Seventy-five women who occupied the roles of caregiver, mother and wife were assessed twice over a two-month interval. Caregiver role adequacy predicted greater family cohesion and marital satisfaction, wife role adequacy predicted greater family cohesion, and mother role adequacy pre…
Health-Related Interactions and the Self in Marriage
This study investigated the association between self processes and married partners' (N = 59 couples) perspectives of their health-related social interactions. Findings revealed that wives' self processes were associated with their social behavior from the perspective of each partner. The wives' self processes differentially predicted wives' and husbands' perspectives of their interactions, however. These findings demonstrate that wives' future e…
It Takes Two
These findings suggest that initiation and maintenance of this positive lifestyle change may be more easily achieved when both marital partners are given information and support to quit smoking at the same time
Aid and Influence
Dyadic exchanges of support and control were investigated in couples in which the husband was recently treated or assessed for heart disease. Each partner in 61 marital dyads ( N = 122 participants) reported the frequency with which both social support and social control to promote a healthy lifestyle were provided to and received from one another. Multivariate findings demonstrated the influence of intrapersonal (or actor) and interpersonal (or …
Moderating Role of Marital Quality in Older Adults' Depressed Affect
We examine the role of three indicators of marital quality (marital disagreement, marital happiness, and time spent together) as moderators of the association between physical disability and depressed affect among married older individuals (N=1,044). We found support for the moderating role of marital disagreement wherein the detrimental effect of disability on depressed affect was significantly heightened among older adults with more disagreemen…
Who Gets What and Why? Help Middle-Aged Adults Provide to Parents and Grown Children
Discussion integrates solidarity theory, developmental stake, and contingency theory. Most middle-aged adults provide more to grown offspring than to parents, consistent with their greater stake in their progeny. Middle-aged adults also respond to crises (i.e., parental disability) and everyday needs (i.e., offspring student status) in providing intergenerational support, in accordance with contingency theory
Are spouses of chronically ill partners burdened by exerting health-related social control
Spouses often seek to influence the health behaviors of chronically ill partners, but little research has examined whether spouses find such involvement to be burdensome. The current study examined this question in a sample of 191 nondiabetic spouses whose partners had type 2 diabetes. Results revealed that spouses who attempted to exert more control over their partners' dietary behavior experienced greater burden, particularly when their partner…
When does spousal social control provoke negative reactions in the context of chronic illness? The pivotal role of patients' expectations
Spouses often monitor and seek to alter each other's health behavior, but such social control attempts can provoke behavioral resistance and emotional distress. Expectations regarding spouses' roles in their partners' health may influence reactions to spousal social control, with resistance and hostility less likely to occur among people who believe spouses should be involved in their partners' health. Evidence consistent with this idea emerged i…
Spousal undermining of older diabetic patients' disease management
Marriage can enhance health for individuals with a chronic disease, yet spouses may also undermine disease management. The current study investigated spousal undermining of dietary regimen in 129 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. A total of 40 patients reported that their spouses tempted them with forbidden foods, and 15 reported that their spouses conveyed disregard for their diabetic diet. Spousal tempting was associated with worse dietar…
Daily symptoms, distress and interaction quality among couples coping with type 2 diabetes
In this electronic diary study ( N = 127 couples), we examined how a diabetic partner's symptoms and distress are associated with relationship interactions over 24 days. Using dyadic multilevel models, we examined the effects of patients' daily diabetes symptom severity and diabetes-specific distress on each partner's evaluations of their daily interaction enjoyment and tension. For both patients and spouses, diabetes symptoms were associated wit…
Emotional reactivity to daily stress, spousal emotional support, and fasting blood glucose among patients with type 2 diabetes
Stress is associated with higher blood glucose in patients with diabetes, but the strength of this association varies considerably across patients. The current daily diary study of 129 patients with type 2 diabetes examined whether individual differences in emotional stress reactivity were associated with fasting blood glucose and whether emotional support provided by spouses moderated this association. Greater stress reactivity was related to gr…
Emotion expression, avoidance and psychological health during reintegration
We evaluated the extent to which military service members' and their significant others' coping strategies (i.e., individual use of emotion expression and avoidance) were independently associated with their own-and each other's-psychological health during reintegration using an actor-partner interdependence model. We simultaneously evaluated actor associations (e.g., associations between service members' own coping and psychological health) and p…
Short- and Long-term Effects of Support Visibility on Support Providers' Negative Affect
Findings from the current study pinpoint support visibility as a protective factor that may mitigate negative short- and long-term effects of spousal instrumental support provision on spouses' negative affect. Promoting patients' awareness of their spouses' support may offset negative emotional consequences of caregiving in the context of chronic health stressors
Spouses' responses to the dietary nonadherence of their partners managing diabetes
The association between patients' dietary nonadherence and spouses' involvement in patients' diabetes diet was examined, with spouses' anxiety about nonadherence considered as a mediator of this association. Daily diary data from 128 older adult patients with type 2 diabetes and their spouses were analyzed using multilevel models. Results revealed that on days when patients reported less adherence to their diabetes diet than usual, spouses report…
Poorer subjective hearing is associated with less frequent and more negative social interactions in older adults
These results support the possibility that impaired hearing may affect the quality of routine social interactions, potentially increasing the risk of social isolation and loneliness
Effects of spousal, friend, and family relationships on marital instability across the first 16 years of marriage
We applied marital stress and stability frameworks to investigate how spousal, family, and friend dynamics contribute to marital instability risks during the first 16 years of marriage. Using longitudinal data from the Early Years of Marriage Project and a within-person approach, we examined how family and friend relationships temper or amplify marital risks in couples’ more troublesome years. We also considered the sociocultural contexts of gend…
Psychology (16 obras) · Clinical Psychology (10 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Social support (9 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (8 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Developmental psychology (7 obras) · Clinical Psychology (6 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 obras)