TY - JOUR
T1 - The differential effects of acute marital distress on emotional, physiological and immune functions in maritally distressed men and women
AU - Mayne, Tracy J.
AU - O'Leary, Ann
AU - McCrady, Barbara
AU - Contrada, Richard
AU - Labouvie, Erich
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the people at UCSF and CAPS who were extremely helpful in reviewing and preparing this manuscript, including Drs. Thomas Coates, Margaret Chesney, and James Gross. Special thanks to Dr. Karal Raska for his laboratory expertise and assistance. This research was the masters thesis of the first author, and was supported in part by grants from the Research Council at Rutgers University and center grant #MH42459 (Center for AIDS Prevention Studies). Portions of this research have been presented at the 5th Annual Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions. New Brunswick, New Jersey; the 14th Annual Conference of the Society for Behavioral Medicine, San Francisco, California; and the 1990 meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston, Massachusetts.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - We examined the impact of acute marital conflict on emotion, cardiovascular arousal, and immune function in men and women. Subjects were 10 heterosexual, distressed couples, who participated in exchange for marital therapy. Each couple participated in a 40 minute conflict induction regarding an area of difficulty in their relationship. During this induction, blood pressure and heart rate were monitored and blood samples were drawn pre- and post-induction for analysis of immune change. Women responded to the experimental induction with significantly greater increases in depression and hostility, and with significantly greater increases in SBP than men. Women also responded to the acute marital distress with slight decreases in lymphocyte proliferative response to PHA, while men displayed an increase in PHA response. The sex by time interaction was significant. Change in PHA was associated with change in hostility and SBP.
AB - We examined the impact of acute marital conflict on emotion, cardiovascular arousal, and immune function in men and women. Subjects were 10 heterosexual, distressed couples, who participated in exchange for marital therapy. Each couple participated in a 40 minute conflict induction regarding an area of difficulty in their relationship. During this induction, blood pressure and heart rate were monitored and blood samples were drawn pre- and post-induction for analysis of immune change. Women responded to the experimental induction with significantly greater increases in depression and hostility, and with significantly greater increases in SBP than men. Women also responded to the acute marital distress with slight decreases in lymphocyte proliferative response to PHA, while men displayed an increase in PHA response. The sex by time interaction was significant. Change in PHA was associated with change in hostility and SBP.
KW - Marital distress
KW - Psychoneuroimmunology
KW - Psychophysiology
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U2 - 10.1080/08870449708407405
DO - 10.1080/08870449708407405
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031530393
VL - 12
SP - 277
EP - 288
JO - Psychology and Health
JF - Psychology and Health
SN - 0887-0446
IS - 2
ER -