Romantic partners’ group-based identity accommodation as a predictor of older adults’ romantic relational satisfaction and depressive symptoms: the moderating role of shared identity with third-party family members
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Quinten S. Bernhold [2] ; Howard Giles [1]
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[1] University of California System
University of California System
Estados Unidos
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[2] University of Tennessee
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- Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 86, nº 5, 2021, págs. 434-446
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This study’s purpose was to examine if older adults sharing a group identity with third-party family members moderated how older adults’ perceptions of receiving accommodation to the group identity from their romantic partner predicted older adults’ romantic relational satisfaction and depressive symptoms. Two-hundred and seventy-four older adults (MAge = 62.70 years) completed a self-report survey about their romantic partner’s communication. Perceptions of the romantic partner’s group-based identity accommodation significantly predicted romantic relational satisfaction and depressive symptoms when older adults did not share their identity with third-party family members. These associations were attenuated when older adults shared their identity with third-party family members. Ways to continue probing how dynamics in the larger family may influence the implications of accommodation are offered.
