Project

When Both Spouses Have Functional Decline: Spousal Collaboration Dynamics in Mastering Daily Stressors Using Ecological Momentary Assessment

To examine whether couple’s collaborations facilitate the mastery of daily stressors in terms of buffering the temporal relationship between daily stressors and psychophysiological responses.
To examine the extent to which the buffering role of spousal collaboration in the mastery of daily stressors vary as a function of perceived control of self and spouse during collaboration.
To investigate whether the buffering effects of spousal collaboration in the mastery of daily stressors accumulate over time to predict long-term individual well-being and marital satisfaction.