Lynn M Martire
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 767074 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lynn M Martire |
| NOMBRES | Lynn M |
| APELLIDO | Martire |
| FIRMA | MARTIRE L M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5465-9132 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 118 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Chronic loneliness and longitudinal changes in cognitive functioning
This study offers insights into the impact of chronic loneliness on cognitive changes in young and middle-aged adults, revealing that chronically lonely individuals did not exhibit the practice-related improvements that are commonly observed in longitudinal studies. Findings suggest the potential significance of identifying and addressing chronic loneliness promptly to prevent potential cognitive consequences of chronic loneliness
Effects of Receiving Pain-Related Support on Psychological Well-Being
Objectives We investigated whether receiving greater pain-related instrumental support is associated with poorer psychological well-being among chronic pain patients who report less positive (e.g., grateful) or more negative (e.g., angry) emotional responses to support. Methods We conducted regression analyses, utilizing data from two waves of interviews with 152 knee osteoarthritis patients. Three indicators of psychological well-being were exam…
Couple synchrony in physical activity
BACKGROUND: Physical activity (PA) is crucial for managing osteoarthritis (OA) symptoms, but maintaining an active lifestyle remains challenging. Given the influence of spouses on each other's health behaviors, PA synchrony-the concurrent PA engagement between partners-may enhance PA levels and emotional well-being in individuals with knee osteoarthritis (IKOAs). PURPOSE: We investigate whether daily PA synchrony in couples is associated with PA …
Multilevel Latent Differential Structural Equation Model with Short Time Series and Time-Varying Covariates
Continuous-time modeling using differential equations is a promising technique to model change processes with longitudinal data. Among ways to fit this model, the Latent Differential Structural Equation Modeling (LDSEM) approach defines latent derivative variables within a structural equation modeling (SEM) framework, thereby allowing researchers to leverage advantages of the SEM framework for model building, estimation, inference, and comparison…
Short-Term Coupling Associations Between State Loneliness and Cognitive Performance in Daily Life Among Older Adults
The findings suggest a prospective association between loneliness and cognitive performance, with higher daily loneliness negatively associated with cognitive performance on the same day and predicting worse performance the following day. Notably, within a single day, lower cognitive performance at a given moment predicted elevated loneliness later in the day. This highlights a complex, reciprocal relationship-loneliness predicting and being pred…
The Social Context of Partnered Older Adults’ Insomnia Symptoms
The current study included an examination of social factors that mitigate or exacerbate insomnia symptoms among older adults who are married or living with a partner. We first examined the unique effects of spousal support and strain on insomnia symptoms and then evaluated the degree to which extramarital social factors (e.g., friend support) moderated spousal influences. Data came from Waves 2 and 3 of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging…
Dyadic links between health changes and well-being
Although the marital relationship is often the primary source of emotional support in adulthood, sole reliance on the spouse to discuss health-related issues may be harmful to the well-being of both partners. The first aim of this study was to examine whether declines in health during later life would be associated with poorer psychological well-being in self and partner. We further investigated whether declining health would have a stronger impa…
Different Types of Childhood Experience With Mothers and Caregiving Outcomes in Adulthood
OBJECTIVE AND BACKGROUND: The current study examines the types of childhood experiences with mothers (i.e., maternal abuse, affection, discipline) among caregivers of aging mothers, and investigates whether membership in specific latent classes, particularly maternal maltreatment, is associated with psychological functioning among caregivers. METHOD: Using data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), we used the Bolck, Croon, and Hagenaars…
Features of Daily Social Interactions That Discriminate Between Older Adults With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment
These results suggest that certain features of daily social interactions (quality and quantity) could serve as sensitive and ecologically valid behavioral markers to facilitate the detection of MCI
Urinary Incontinence and Depressive Symptoms
UI poses a threat to psychological well-being among older women. This is partly explained by a decrease in physical activity and disruption in social engagement. This study reaffirms the significance of the programs that promote physical and social activity among older adults
Perceived Gratitude, Role Overload, and Mental Health Among Spousal Caregivers of Older Adults
Findings suggest that spousal caregivers' role overload may be a strong risk factor for their poorer mental health, especially when caregivers feel less appreciated by their partner. Couple-oriented interventions to improve spousal caregivers' mental health could be aimed at reducing their role overload and enhancing perceived gratitude
Loneliness Progression Among Older Adults During the Early Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States and Canada
Leveraging a longitudinal, binational data set collected during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study advances understanding of stability and change in loneliness among a North American sample of individuals aged 65 and older faced with the unique challenges of social isolation. These results can inform public health policy in anticipation of future pandemics and highlight the need for targeted intervention to address acute lonelin…
Family Caregiving for Older Adults
Family members are the primary source of support for older adults with chronic illness and disability. Thousands of published empirical studies and dozens of reviews have documented the psychological and physical health effects of caregiving, identified caregivers at risk for adverse outcomes, and evaluated a wide range of intervention strategies to support caregivers. Caregiving as chronic stress exposure is the conceptual driver for much of thi…
Perceived Patient Pain and Spousal Caregivers’ Negative Affect
Objectives: This study examined whether older patients' greater daily pain perceived by their spouses was associated with spouses' higher daily negative affect. We further investigated whether spouses' lower confidence in patients' ability to manage pain exacerbated the daily association between perceived patient pain and spouses' negative affect. Method: We used baseline interviews and a 22-day diary of knee osteoarthritis patients and their spo…
What Can We Learn About Psychological Aging By Studying Covid-19
Rumination and Sleep Quality Among Older Adults
Perceived spousal support may act as a psychosocial resource that mitigates negative effects of trait rumination on older adults' sleep quality. Interventions aimed at mitigating maladaptive outcomes of rumination on sleep quality for older adults should consider spousal support as a key target
The Influence of Family and Friend Confidants on Marital Quality in Older Couples
This study demonstrates the importance of family and friend confidant networks for older couples' marital quality and highlights the benefits of having a larger or closer friend confidant network. Future research should examine mechanisms that account for the effects of spouses' family and friend confidant networks on older couples' marital quality
Spousal understanding and marital satisfaction in pain patients and their spouses
The current study tested the hypotheses that knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients and spouses who report more spousal understanding of patient's pain would report greater marital satisfaction. A total of 124 couples completed interviews at three time points across 18 months. Results from dyadic analyses showed that patients who felt more understood by their spouse report, and have spouses who report, higher marital satisfaction concurrently. In addi…
Evidence of Bidirectional Associations Between Depressive Symptoms and Body Mass Among Older Adults
The association of BMI and depressive symptoms is bidirectional among older adults, and it appears to be affected by both age and sex
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
Couples' day-to-day pain concordance and marital interaction quality
Chronic pain is a common stressor in couples' daily lives, but little is known about couples' day-to-day pain concordance (i.e., agreement regarding one partner's level of pain) and its relevance to both partners' daily marital interaction quality. Using 22-day diaries of patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and their spouses, the current study sought to quantify the degree of daily fluctuation in both partners' reports of patient pai…
Daily Links Between Sleep and Anger Among Spouses of Chronic Pain Patients
Findings highlight the potential value of intervention efforts aimed at promoting spouses' sleep quality in an effort to offset negative emotional consequences that may undermine spouses' and patients' adjustment in the context of chronic pain
The Role of Current Family Relationships in Associations Between Childhood Abuse and Adult Psychological Functioning
Childhood abuse appears to hinder perceived availability of family support in adulthood, which may undermine the psychological functioning of adults with a history of childhood abuse. To improve their psychological health, interventions should focus on facilitating supportive and functional family relationships
Close relationships and the management of chronic illness
Self-management of a chronic illness involves not only monitoring symptoms, adhering to medication regimens, and keeping medical appointments but also making and maintaining difficult lifestyle changes. This article highlights correlational and intervention research suggesting family members are influential in children's and adults' illness management. The argument is made that a dyadic approach to chronic illness management that targets the infl…
Activity Restriction and Depressive Symptoms in Older Couples
This pattern of findings highlights the dyadic implications of AR and the vital role of marital satisfaction in the context of chronic illness
Balancing Parent Care With Other Roles
This study examined interrole conflict experienced by 278 women who simultaneously occupied 4 roles: parent care provider, mother to children at home, wife, and employee. Compared with women who experienced no conflict between parent care and their other roles, women reporting parent care conflict tended to have fewer socio-economic resources, to have older children, and to be caring for parents with greater impairment. Women who reported conflic…
Close relationships and the management of chronic illness
Self-management of a chronic illness involves not only monitoring symptoms, adhering to medication regimens, and keeping medical appointments but also making and maintaining difficult lifestyle changes. This article highlights correlational and intervention research suggesting family members are influential in children's and adults' illness management. The argument is made that a dyadic approach to chronic illness management that targets the infl…
Stability and Change in Older Adults' Social Contact and Social Support
The findings of this study add to a growing literature suggesting that late life is not typically characterized by a decline in important social resources
The Interplay of Work and Caregiving
This study applied theory from the general work and family literature to the dual roles of work and caregiving, in order to examine whether level of satisfaction and time involvement in each of these roles moderate the effects of stress in the other role on well-being. Respondents were 118 employed women who were providing care to an impaired parent or parent-in-law. As predicted, greater time involvement in work was found to buffer women from th…
Juggling Parent Care and Employment Responsibilities
The Influence of Family and Friend Confidants on Marital Quality in Older Couples
This study demonstrates the importance of family and friend confidant networks for older couples' marital quality and highlights the benefits of having a larger or closer friend confidant network. Future research should examine mechanisms that account for the effects of spouses' family and friend confidant networks on older couples' marital quality
Couples' day-to-day pain concordance and marital interaction quality
Chronic pain is a common stressor in couples' daily lives, but little is known about couples' day-to-day pain concordance (i.e., agreement regarding one partner's level of pain) and its relevance to both partners' daily marital interaction quality. Using 22-day diaries of patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and their spouses, the current study sought to quantify the degree of daily fluctuation in both partners' reports of patient pai…
The Role of Current Family Relationships in Associations Between Childhood Abuse and Adult Psychological Functioning
Childhood abuse appears to hinder perceived availability of family support in adulthood, which may undermine the psychological functioning of adults with a history of childhood abuse. To improve their psychological health, interventions should focus on facilitating supportive and functional family relationships
Spouses' Cardiovascular Reactivity to Their Partners' Suffering
A laboratory study of older adults with osteoarthritis and their spouses was conducted to examine the unique influence of exposure to suffering on caregivers' risk for impaired psychological and physical health. Spouses' blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) were monitored during 2 tasks designed to capture their partners' suffering. First, spouses watched their partners (and a stranger) carry heavy logs across an 8-ft space for 3 min, a task t…
Perceived Gratitude, Role Overload, and Mental Health Among Spousal Caregivers of Older Adults
Findings suggest that spousal caregivers' role overload may be a strong risk factor for their poorer mental health, especially when caregivers feel less appreciated by their partner. Couple-oriented interventions to improve spousal caregivers' mental health could be aimed at reducing their role overload and enhancing perceived gratitude
Couple-oriented interventions for chronic illness
There is emerging evidence that couple-oriented behavioral interventions (CIs) for chronic illness yield benefits for patients. However, conceptual and methodological advances are critical for strengthening the impact and evaluation of this treatment approach. First, it would be useful to develop CIs that work for multiple chronic conditions and are tailored to couples' needs, and that can be delivered in ways that help couples apply new skills t…
Loneliness Progression Among Older Adults During the Early Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States and Canada
Leveraging a longitudinal, binational data set collected during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study advances understanding of stability and change in loneliness among a North American sample of individuals aged 65 and older faced with the unique challenges of social isolation. These results can inform public health policy in anticipation of future pandemics and highlight the need for targeted intervention to address acute lonelin…
Urinary Incontinence and Depressive Symptoms
UI poses a threat to psychological well-being among older women. This is partly explained by a decrease in physical activity and disruption in social engagement. This study reaffirms the significance of the programs that promote physical and social activity among older adults
Rumination and Sleep Quality Among Older Adults
Perceived spousal support may act as a psychosocial resource that mitigates negative effects of trait rumination on older adults' sleep quality. Interventions aimed at mitigating maladaptive outcomes of rumination on sleep quality for older adults should consider spousal support as a key target
Activity Restriction and Depressive Symptoms in Older Couples
This pattern of findings highlights the dyadic implications of AR and the vital role of marital satisfaction in the context of chronic illness
Stress, Rewards, and Change in the Centrality of Women?s Family and Work Roles
Dyadic links between health changes and well-being
Although the marital relationship is often the primary source of emotional support in adulthood, sole reliance on the spouse to discuss health-related issues may be harmful to the well-being of both partners. The first aim of this study was to examine whether declines in health during later life would be associated with poorer psychological well-being in self and partner. We further investigated whether declining health would have a stronger impa…
Features of Daily Social Interactions That Discriminate Between Older Adults With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment
These results suggest that certain features of daily social interactions (quality and quantity) could serve as sensitive and ecologically valid behavioral markers to facilitate the detection of MCI
Perceived Patient Pain and Spousal Caregivers’ Negative Affect
Objectives: This study examined whether older patients' greater daily pain perceived by their spouses was associated with spouses' higher daily negative affect. We further investigated whether spouses' lower confidence in patients' ability to manage pain exacerbated the daily association between perceived patient pain and spouses' negative affect. Method: We used baseline interviews and a 22-day diary of knee osteoarthritis patients and their spo…
What Can We Learn About Psychological Aging By Studying Covid-19
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
Change in the Centrality of Women's Multiple Roles
These findings suggest that the centrality of a social role can change over time in response to stressful and rewarding role experiences
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…
The Interplay of Work and Caregiving
This study applied theory from the general work and family literature to the dual roles of work and caregiving, in order to examine whether level of satisfaction and time involvement in each of these roles moderate the effects of stress in the other role on well-being. Respondents were 118 employed women who were providing care to an impaired parent or parent-in-law. As predicted, greater time involvement in work was found to buffer women from th…
Stability and Change in Older Adults' Social Contact and Social Support
The findings of this study add to a growing literature suggesting that late life is not typically characterized by a decline in important social resources
Association Between Depression and Mortality in Older Adults
Background Studies of the association between depressive symptoms and mortality in elderly populations have yielded contradictory findings. To address these discrepancies, we test this association using the most extensive array of sociodemographic and physical health control variables ever studied, to our knowledge, in a large population-based sample of elderly individuals. Objective To examine the relation between baseline depressive symptoms an…
Balancing Parent Care With Other Roles
This study examined interrole conflict experienced by 278 women who simultaneously occupied 4 roles: parent care provider, mother to children at home, wife, and employee. Compared with women who experienced no conflict between parent care and their other roles, women reporting parent care conflict tended to have fewer socio-economic resources, to have older children, and to be caring for parents with greater impairment. Women who reported conflic…
Change in the Centrality of Women's Multiple Roles
These findings suggest that the centrality of a social role can change over time in response to stressful and rewarding role experiences
Juggling Parent Care and Employment Responsibilities
Family Caregiving of Persons With Dementia
Stress, Rewards, and Change in the Centrality of Women?s Family and Work Roles
The Life Engagement Test
Association of Enjoyable Leisure Activities With Psychological and Physical Well-Being
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether engaging in multiple enjoyable activities was associated with better psychological and physiological functioning. Few studies have examined the health benefits of the enjoyable activities that individuals participate in voluntarily in their free time. METHOD: Participants from four different studies (n = 1399 total, 74% female, age = 19-89 years) completed a self-report measure (Pittsburgh Enjoyable Activities Test (…
Willingness to express emotions to caregiving spouses
This study examined the association between care-recipients' willingness to express emotions to spousal caregivers and caregiver's well-being and support behaviors. Using self-report measures in the context of a larger study, 262 care-recipients with osteoarthritis reported on their willingness to express emotions to caregivers, and caregivers reported on their stress and insensitive responding to care-recipients. Results revealed that care-recip…
Spouses' Cardiovascular Reactivity to Their Partners' Suffering
A laboratory study of older adults with osteoarthritis and their spouses was conducted to examine the unique influence of exposure to suffering on caregivers' risk for impaired psychological and physical health. Spouses' blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) were monitored during 2 tasks designed to capture their partners' suffering. First, spouses watched their partners (and a stranger) carry heavy logs across an 8-ft space for 3 min, a task t…
Couple-oriented interventions for chronic illness
There is emerging evidence that couple-oriented behavioral interventions (CIs) for chronic illness yield benefits for patients. However, conceptual and methodological advances are critical for strengthening the impact and evaluation of this treatment approach. First, it would be useful to develop CIs that work for multiple chronic conditions and are tailored to couples' needs, and that can be delivered in ways that help couples apply new skills t…
Avoidant Coping and Poor Sleep Efficiency in Dementia Caregivers
OBJECTIVES: Caring for a spouse with dementia is a source of chronic stress and is associated with a heightened prevalence of self-reported sleep problems. Styles and strategies for coping with stress have been associated with objective measures of sleep in non-caregiver populations. The current study evaluated relationships between caregiver coping style and sleep disturbance using in-home polysomnography. METHODS: Sixty spousal caregivers (mean…
Activity Restriction and Depressive Symptoms in Older Couples
This pattern of findings highlights the dyadic implications of AR and the vital role of marital satisfaction in the context of chronic illness
Close relationships and the management of chronic illness
Self-management of a chronic illness involves not only monitoring symptoms, adhering to medication regimens, and keeping medical appointments but also making and maintaining difficult lifestyle changes. This article highlights correlational and intervention research suggesting family members are influential in children's and adults' illness management. The argument is made that a dyadic approach to chronic illness management that targets the infl…
Daily Links Between Sleep and Anger Among Spouses of Chronic Pain Patients
Findings highlight the potential value of intervention efforts aimed at promoting spouses' sleep quality in an effort to offset negative emotional consequences that may undermine spouses' and patients' adjustment in the context of chronic pain
The Role of Current Family Relationships in Associations Between Childhood Abuse and Adult Psychological Functioning
Childhood abuse appears to hinder perceived availability of family support in adulthood, which may undermine the psychological functioning of adults with a history of childhood abuse. To improve their psychological health, interventions should focus on facilitating supportive and functional family relationships
Spousal understanding and marital satisfaction in pain patients and their spouses
The current study tested the hypotheses that knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients and spouses who report more spousal understanding of patient's pain would report greater marital satisfaction. A total of 124 couples completed interviews at three time points across 18 months. Results from dyadic analyses showed that patients who felt more understood by their spouse report, and have spouses who report, higher marital satisfaction concurrently. In addi…
Evidence of Bidirectional Associations Between Depressive Symptoms and Body Mass Among Older Adults
The association of BMI and depressive symptoms is bidirectional among older adults, and it appears to be affected by both age and sex
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
Couples' day-to-day pain concordance and marital interaction quality
Chronic pain is a common stressor in couples' daily lives, but little is known about couples' day-to-day pain concordance (i.e., agreement regarding one partner's level of pain) and its relevance to both partners' daily marital interaction quality. Using 22-day diaries of patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and their spouses, the current study sought to quantify the degree of daily fluctuation in both partners' reports of patient pai…
Family Caregiving for Older Adults
Family members are the primary source of support for older adults with chronic illness and disability. Thousands of published empirical studies and dozens of reviews have documented the psychological and physical health effects of caregiving, identified caregivers at risk for adverse outcomes, and evaluated a wide range of intervention strategies to support caregivers. Caregiving as chronic stress exposure is the conceptual driver for much of thi…
Perceived Patient Pain and Spousal Caregivers’ Negative Affect
Objectives: This study examined whether older patients' greater daily pain perceived by their spouses was associated with spouses' higher daily negative affect. We further investigated whether spouses' lower confidence in patients' ability to manage pain exacerbated the daily association between perceived patient pain and spouses' negative affect. Method: We used baseline interviews and a 22-day diary of knee osteoarthritis patients and their spo…
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