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Why Do Relationships in Later Life Matter? The Links between Relationships and Well-Being Lisa A. Neff University of Texas at Austin Newlywed spouses are deeply in love and highly committed Yet, this initial happiness often fails to

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Why Do Relationships in Later Life Matter? The Links between Relationships and Well-Being

Lisa A. Neff University of Texas at Austin

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Newlywed spouses are deeply in love

and highly committed

Yet, this initial happiness often fails to

translate into marital success

Why do couples have so much difficulty

maintaining their relationship?

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Close relationships

have a powerful influence on our mental health…

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…as well as our physical health.

 Cancer studies

  • Married individuals are 20% more likely to survive

 Marital quality and congestive heart failure

  • 30% in high quality marriages died; 55% in low quality

marriages died.

 Marital quality and immune function

  • Wounds healed 40% faster in less hostile marriages
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 Individuals with good social relationships have a 50%

greater likelihood of survival compared to those with poor social relationships (Holt-Lunstad, Smith, & Layton, 2010)

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 We live in an aging

society……

  • Dept. of Health and Human Services,

Administration on Aging

….and more than ever before older adults are likely to be unmarried

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The headlines:

  • “Senator slams spending on

“Federal Match.com”

  • “Why is the US Studying Seniors’

Dating Habits?”

The study:

  • 300 couples age 30-45 or age 60+
  • Must be married for 10+ years or

dating less than 8 months

Funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS-1451492)