Jose Adrian Fernandes-Pires, María Márquez-González, Laura Garcia-Garcia, María Del Sequeros Pedroso-Chaparro, Isabel Cabrera, Karl Pillemer, Andrés Losada-Baltar
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Abstract
Objectives: Ambivalent feelings in a partner relationship, characterized by simultaneous positive and negative emotional experiences, can significantly influence individuals' mental health. Traditionally measured indirectly, this study introduces the Partner Ambivalence Scale (PAS), developed for directly capturing the complexity of ambivalent emotions. This study aimed to analyze the psychometric properties of the PAS, and assess the effects of ambivalent feelings on partner relationship quality and depressive symptomatology.
Method: 390 individuals (60% women), 40 years or older (M = 60.88, SD = 10.7), and in a partner relationship, participated. Data collected included ambivalent feelings in couples, marital satisfaction, frequency of arguments, and depressive symptoms.
Results: The exploratory factor analysis of the PAS yielded a one factor structure explaining 59% of the variance of ambivalent feelings. Higher ambivalent feelings were associated with lower marital satisfaction, higher frequency of disagreements, and higher depressive symptoms. Even when controlling for covariates, ambivalent feelings contributed significantly to the explanation of depress on.
Conclusion: The PAS demonstrates good psychometric properties, making it suitable for use with middle-aged and older adults. Ambivalent feelings toward the partner are significant for understanding partner relationship quality and mental health and may increase vulnerability to depressive symptoms during middle and older age.
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Aging & Mental Health provides a leading international forum for the rapidly expanding field which investigates the relationship between the aging process and mental health. The journal addresses the mental changes associated with normal and abnormal or pathological aging, as well as the psychological and psychiatric problems of the aging population. The journal also has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary and innovative approaches that explore new topics and methods.
Aging & Mental Health covers the biological, psychological and social aspects of aging as they relate to mental health. In particular it encourages an integrated approach for examining various biopsychosocial processes and etiological factors associated with psychological changes in the elderly. It also emphasizes the various strategies, therapies and services which may be directed at improving the mental health of the elderly and their families. In this way the journal promotes a strong alliance among the theoretical, experimental and applied sciences across a range of issues affecting mental health and aging. The emphasis of the journal is on rigorous quantitative, and qualitative, research and, high quality innovative studies on emerging topics.
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