title: Ethnic Minority Status, Depression, and Cognitive Failures in Relation to Marital Adjustment in Ethnically Diverse Older Women.
abstract: The authors investigated the relationship between marital adjustment and ethnic minority status, depressive symptomatology, and cognitive failures among 78 married, community-dwelling, and predominantly non-European-American older women (ages 57-89). Respondents were screened to rule out dementia. Level of depressive symptoms, self-report of cognitive failures, and marital adjustment were obtained. As hypothesized, higher depressive symptomatology and cognitive failures were associated with worse marital adjustment (p< .05 for both). The same was true for membership in a non-dominant ethnic group, albeit only when ethnic status was considered outside the context of the other two independent variables. These results have clinical implications and fit within the theoretical framework of the socioemotional selectivity theory (Carstensen, 1992) applied to marriage in older age, a conceptualization formulated by Bookwala and Jacobs in 2004.
authors: California State University Northridge. Northridge, CA 91330-8255.
authors: Luciana
authors: L
authors: Laganá
authors: California State University Northridge. Northridge, CA 91330-8255.
authors: Therese
authors: T
authors: Spellman
authors: California State University Northridge. Northridge, CA 91330-8255.
authors: Jennifer
authors: J
authors: Wakefield
authors: California State University Northridge. Northridge, CA 91330-8255.
authors: Taylor
authors: T
authors: Oliver
keywords: Relationship satisfaction; cognitive complaints; mood symptomatology; race
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