Journal article
The Biobehavioral Family Model: Close relationships and allostatic load
Social science & medicine (1982), Vol.142, pp.232-240
10/2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.08.026
PMID: 26318212
Abstract
This study tested the inclusion of allostatic load as an expansion of the biobehavioral reactivity measurement in the Biobehavioral Family Model (BBFM). The BBFM is a biopsychosocial approach to health which proposes biobehavioral reactivity (anxiety and depression) mediates the relationship between family emotional climate and disease activity.
Data for this study included a subsample of n = 1255 single and married, English-speaking adult participants (57% female, M age = 56 years) from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS II), a nationally representative epidemiological study of health and aging in the United States. Participants completed self-reported measures of family and marital functioning, anxiety and depression (biobehavioral reactivity), number of chronic health conditions, number of prescribed medications, and a biological protocol in which the following indices were obtained: cardiovascular functioning, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity, hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis activity, inflammation, lipid/fat metabolism, and glucose metabolism.
Structural equation modeling indicated good fit of the data to the hypothesized family model (χ 2 = 125.13 p = .00, SRMR = .03, CFI = .96, TLI = .94, RMSEA = .04) and hypothesized couple model (χ2 = 132.67, p = .00, SRMR = .04, CFI = .95, TLI = .93, RMSEA = .04). Negative family interactions predicted biobehavioral reactivity for anxiety and depression and allostatic load; however couple interactions predicted only depression and anxiety measures of biobehavioral reactivity.
Findings suggest the importance of incorporating physiological data in measuring biobehavioral reactivity as a predicting factor in the overall BBFM model.
•Expanded the BBFM by incorporating allostatic load.•Allostatic load mediates the link between family strain and physical illness.•Allostatic load did not mediate the link between partner strain and illness.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Biobehavioral Family Model: Close relationships and allostatic load
- Creators
- Jacob B Priest - University of IowaSarah B Woods - Texas Woman's UniversityCandice A Maier - University of IowaElizabeth Oshrin Parker - University of IowaJenna A Benoit - University of IowaTara R Roush - Texas Woman's University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Social science & medicine (1982), Vol.142, pp.232-240
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.08.026
- PMID
- 26318212
- ISSN
- 0277-9536
- eISSN
- 1873-5347
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2015
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Psychological and Quantitative Foundations; University College Courses; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984281653502771
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