Abstract
Employing a person-situation fit model, this study assessed the effects of congruence between wives' trait internality (I-E) and their spouses' encouragement of self-reliance (SRE) or reliance on others (ORE) on several measures of psychological distress. Age was treated as an important moderator of person/situation interaction processes. Subjects were 36 middle-aged and older-aged adult women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and their spouses recruited from an outpatient rheumatology practice. Regression analyses revealed three-way interactions of internality, age, and a difference score of SRE-ORE. Younger subjects with low internality scores on the locus of control scale reported less psychological distress if their spouse engaged in increased encouragement of control, while older low internals reported greater distress under the same conditions
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