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Relationship Among Differentiation of Self, Relationship Satisfaction, Partner Support, and Depression in Patients With Chronic Lung Disease and Their Partners
Author(s) -
Lal Arpita,
BartleHaring Suzanne
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2009.00167.x
Subject(s) - psychology , depression (economics) , multilevel model , clinical psychology , population , disease , regression analysis , medicine , environmental health , machine learning , computer science , economics , macroeconomics
The purpose of the present study is to test the relationships among differentiation of self, relationship satisfaction, perceived partner support, and depression in a sample of patients with chronic lung disease (CLD) and their partners. The sample consisted of 52 patients with CLD and their partners. Hierarchical multiple regression was used for data analysis. The results indicate that (a) patients’ differentiation of self is significantly lower than partners’ differentiation of self, (b) patients’ relationship satisfaction is positively correlated with partners’ relationship satisfaction, (c) patients’ relationship satisfaction predicts perceived partner supportive behavior, (d) perceived partner unsupportive behavior predicts patients’ depression, (e) partners’ differentiation of self predicts partners’ relationship satisfaction, (f) partners’ relationship satisfaction predicts partner supportive behavior, and (g) partners’ differentiation of self and relationship satisfaction predicts partners’ depression. The study serves to highlight the fact that the patient is part of a system, and that taking the system into account is relevant to the well‐being of both the patient and the partner, in particular for patients with CLD, a heretofore unstudied population. The results of such studies have significant implications for couple and family therapists.

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