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Perceived Partner Responsiveness Predicts Better Sleep Quality Through Lower Anxiety
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In this article, the authors investigated whether perceived partner responsiveness predicted subjective sleep problems and objective (actigraph-based) sleep efficiency through lower anxiety and depression symptoms, and found that perceived responsiveness predicted lower self-reported global sleep problems through lower depression and greater actigraph-assessed sleep efficiency.Abstract:
The present study investigated whether perceived partner responsiveness—the extent to which individuals feel cared for, understood, and validated by their partner—predicted subjective sleep problems and objective (actigraph-based) sleep efficiency through lower anxiety and depression symptoms. A life span sample of 698 married or cohabiting adults (35–86 years old) completed measures of perceived partner responsiveness and subjective sleep problems. A subset of the sample (N = 219) completed a weeklong sleep study where actigraph-based measures of sleep efficiency were obtained. Perceived partner responsiveness predicted lower self-reported global sleep problems through lower anxiety and depression and greater actigraph-assessed sleep efficiency through lower anxiety. All indirect associations held after controlling for emotional support provision to the partner, agreeableness, and demographic and health covariates known to affect sleep quality. These findings are among the first to demonstrate how percei...read more
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A Social Psychological Perspective on the Links between Close Relationships and Health.
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Smartphones and Close Relationships: The Case for an Evolutionary Mismatch.
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Perceived Partner Responsiveness, Daily Negative Affect Reactivity, and All-Cause Mortality: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study.
TL;DR: Findings are among the first to provide direct evidence of psychological mechanisms underlying the links between intimate relationships and mortality and have implications for research aiming to develop interventions that increase or maintain responsiveness in relationships over time.
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