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The Role of ADLs/IADLs on Relationship Quality in First Marriages versus Remarriage

Vielee, Alyssa
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1597439955059328

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2020, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Sociology/Applied Demography.
Roughly 30 percent of those 63 and older who are married are in a remarriage (Lin, Brown, and Hammersmith 2017). Past research has established that first marriages and remarriages operate differently and have different health and relationship quality outcomes. These health and relationship quality outcomes can be affected by functional limitations such as Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL). However, the effects of ADLs/IADLs on relationship quality between remarried and continuously married aging individuals is unknown. Using two waves of data from the Health and Retirement Study’s Psychosocial survey, I examined potential relationship quality differences between continuously married and remarried individuals with and without ADLs/IADLs. Contrary to my expectation that continuously married individuals with an ADL/IADL would have higher positive relationship quality and lower negative relationship quality than remarried individuals with an ADL/IADL, the bivariate results showed continuously married and remarrieds had similar positive and negative relationship quality. OLS regression results also did not support the proposed hypotheses. Instead, first marriages and remarriages for older adults with and without ADL/IADL onset do not differ in terms of positive and negative relationship quality. These findings highlight that marriage operates similarly for older adults regardless of ADL/IADL onset for those who are either continuously married or remarried.
Susan L. Brown, Dr. (Advisor)
I-Fen Lin, Dr. (Committee Member)
Jenjira J. Yahirun, Dr. (Committee Member)
50 p.
Sociology
marital quality; relationship quality; remarriage; functinal limitations; ADLs; IADLs

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  • Vielee, A. (2020). The Role of ADLs/IADLs on Relationship Quality in First Marriages versus Remarriage [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1597439955059328

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vielee, Alyssa. The Role of ADLs/IADLs on Relationship Quality in First Marriages versus Remarriage. 2020. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1597439955059328.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vielee, Alyssa. "The Role of ADLs/IADLs on Relationship Quality in First Marriages versus Remarriage." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1597439955059328

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