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THE INFLUENCE OF MARRIAGE AND COHABITATION ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER PEOPLE

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2020) indicates that 30.6% of middle-aged and older adults were physically inactive. Whereas marital status is linked to physical activity (PA), it is increasingly common for couples to cohabitate, making it important to capture these relationships. Th...

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Autores principales: Yuan, Shuhan, Elam, Kit, Johnston, Jeanne, Chow, Angela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9772531/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.3004
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author Yuan, Shuhan
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Johnston, Jeanne
Chow, Angela
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description The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2020) indicates that 30.6% of middle-aged and older adults were physically inactive. Whereas marital status is linked to physical activity (PA), it is increasingly common for couples to cohabitate, making it important to capture these relationships. The stress/social support theory(Burman & Margolin, 1992) highlights the importance of relationship quality in long-term relationships, but this hasn’t been cohesively examined relative to PA. This study investigated whether partnered living status (married/cohabitating) and partnered living quality (support/strain from partner, partner disagreements) were associated with PA in middle-aged/older adults. Data were from a nationally representative longitudinal study, Midlife in the United States(waves 1–3; Nf1113; aged 49–93). Subjects were categorized into four groups based on partnered living status over the three waves: partnered living at all waves (57.9%), non-partnered living (separated, divorced, widowed, or never married) at all waves (17.6%), change from partnered living to non-partnered living (20.8%), and change from non-partnered living to partnered living (3.8%). Regressions were conducted to test the effect of partnered living status and relationship quality on the frequency of moderate and vigorous PA at wave 3. Subjects who changed from non-partnered to partnered living had the highest moderate and vigorous PA levels. Partner support was positively associated with moderate PA (β=0.50, p < 0.01), and partner disagreements was negatively associated with vigorous PA (β=-0.27, p < 0.01). Results suggest that relationship status and quality can influence PA among the aging population. Public health educators should provide additional social support to older adults to promote PA.
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spelling pubmed-97725312022-12-22 THE INFLUENCE OF MARRIAGE AND COHABITATION ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER PEOPLE Yuan, Shuhan Elam, Kit Johnston, Jeanne Chow, Angela Innov Aging Late Breaking Abstracts The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2020) indicates that 30.6% of middle-aged and older adults were physically inactive. Whereas marital status is linked to physical activity (PA), it is increasingly common for couples to cohabitate, making it important to capture these relationships. The stress/social support theory(Burman & Margolin, 1992) highlights the importance of relationship quality in long-term relationships, but this hasn’t been cohesively examined relative to PA. This study investigated whether partnered living status (married/cohabitating) and partnered living quality (support/strain from partner, partner disagreements) were associated with PA in middle-aged/older adults. Data were from a nationally representative longitudinal study, Midlife in the United States(waves 1–3; Nf1113; aged 49–93). Subjects were categorized into four groups based on partnered living status over the three waves: partnered living at all waves (57.9%), non-partnered living (separated, divorced, widowed, or never married) at all waves (17.6%), change from partnered living to non-partnered living (20.8%), and change from non-partnered living to partnered living (3.8%). Regressions were conducted to test the effect of partnered living status and relationship quality on the frequency of moderate and vigorous PA at wave 3. Subjects who changed from non-partnered to partnered living had the highest moderate and vigorous PA levels. Partner support was positively associated with moderate PA (β=0.50, p < 0.01), and partner disagreements was negatively associated with vigorous PA (β=-0.27, p < 0.01). Results suggest that relationship status and quality can influence PA among the aging population. Public health educators should provide additional social support to older adults to promote PA. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9772531/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.3004 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title THE INFLUENCE OF MARRIAGE AND COHABITATION ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER PEOPLE
title_full THE INFLUENCE OF MARRIAGE AND COHABITATION ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER PEOPLE
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title_short THE INFLUENCE OF MARRIAGE AND COHABITATION ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER PEOPLE
title_sort influence of marriage and cohabitation on physical activity among middle-aged and older people
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