%0 Journal Article
%T Psychological Distress Transmission in Same
%A Debra Umberson
%A Rachel Behler
%A Rachel Donnelly
%J Journal of Health and Social Behavior
%@ 2150-6000
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0022146518813097
%X Ample work stresses the interdependence of spouses¡¯ psychological distress and that women are more influenced by their spouse¡¯s distress than men. Yet previous studies have focused primarily on heterosexual couples, raising questions about whether and how this gendered pattern might unfold for men and women in same-sex marriages. We analyze 10 days of diary data from a purposive sample of men and women in same-sex and different-sex marriages (n = 756 individuals from 378 couples) to examine psychological distress transmission between spouses and how this process may differ for men and women in same-sex and different-sex marriages. We find that women are more strongly influenced by their partners¡¯ distress than men, regardless of whether they are married to a man or a woman, and that this relationship is particularly strong for women with male spouses
%K bisexual
%K emotion work
%K gay
%K gender
%K intimacy
%K lesbian
%K LGBT
%K marriage
%K mental health
%K psychological distress
%K transgender
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022146518813097