This paper uses interview data from physicians and their spouses to describe the types of spousal support physicians receive when coping with work-related stress and to explore whether they vary by occupational similarity, gender, and parental status. The physicians described receiving different types of spousal support: emotional, informational, and instrumental. Male physicians in this study ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the role of spouse mood in the disability and disease course of persons with rheumatoid arthritis (PWRA). METHODS A total of 133 married PWRA completed questionnaires, including the Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index and the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand, assessing PWRA arthritis disease activity and disability, respectively, at 2 time points 1 year...

This study examines the effects of social ties (with spouse, children, friends, neighbors, other relatives, and community groups) on depressive symptom levels in U.S. and Japanese adults aged 60 and over. Nationally representative survey data from the United States (N = 1,419) and Japan (N = 2,200) indicate that having a spouse, or increased contacts with friends, neighbors and relatives was as...

This case describes a patient with advanced dementia and an unrealistic spouse, presenting an apparent dilemma about nutrition for physicians. By eliciting the perspective of the caregiver, the physicians can gain insight and rebuild trust that protects the interests of both the patient and the spouse. Their goal needs to shift from resolving the professional ethical dilemma to affirming the im...

Acknowledgements: We thank Greg Carey for insightful comments on this manuscript. ABSTRACT Objectives: Contemporary scholarly debate emphasizes the importance of spouse selection on population stratification, typically focusing on the traits of spouses themselves. In this study spouses and their parents were analyzed to resolve the effects of direct spousal assortment from family background ass...

This paper traces the evolution of John Maynard Keynes’s theory business cycle from his early writings in 1913 to policy prescriptions for control fluctuations 1940s. The identifies six different “theories” fluctuations. With theoretical frameworks a 30-year span, driver fluctuations—namely cyclical changes expectations about future returns—remained substantially same. banking system also playe...

How resources from development or social programs are allocated within the household is important for welfare. Intra-household resource allocation does not only depend on who receives and allocates resources, but also whether disclosed to other members. In patrilineal societies in rural Tanzania, like one we selected this study, expect disclosure of available have a stronger effect women’s deci...

objective: this survey aimed at finding a model for determining the direct and indirect effects of spouse abuse on the psychological health of victimized women as well as analysis of the mediating roles of social support and coping mechanisms on the relationship between spouse abuse and psychological health condition. methods: a total of 192 women were selected by random sampling. they complete...