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In older adults, the suffering of a relative with chronic disease or illness can severely impact their caregiver. However, older adults also tend to have better emotional regulation than younger age groups. Very little is known about these dynamics in the context of early-stage dementia in which both spouses are struggling with caregiving or experiencing dementia and need one another for support. In the present study, we hypothesized that when both partners have better emotion regulation skills, each partner’s depressive symptoms would be the lowest. We made the same hypothesis for both the person with dementia and their spouse without dementia. We used self-report baseline data from an intervention study of 70 older adult married couples (N=140) where one spouse has early-stage dementia. Spouses completed questionnaires that measured their emotional regulation habits (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale) and their recent depressive symptoms (CESD). Results from the actor partner interdependence model showed that when both partners had high emotional regulation skills scores there were the lowest levels of depressive symptoms for each dyad member (B=4.31, SE=.94, t(49.9)=4.61, p&amp;lt;.001). Findings suggest couple-focused interventions to enhance emotion regulation skills are important for coping in the early stages of dementia.

Spouses’ Emotion Regulation Skills and Depressive Symptoms in the Context of Early Stage Dementia