Abstract

Studies linking measures of marital satisfaction with health outcomes have yielded variable results. Recognizing that real-life marital relationships are often characterized by perceptions of one's spouse as both helpful and upsetting (i.e., ambivalence), investigators examined spouses' ratings of social relationship and marital adjustment and used standard scans to assess coronary artery calcification. The 136 couples were married for a mean of 36 years (97% non-Hispanic white; mean age, 63; …

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