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      Control Strategies and Daily Affect : Couples Adapt to New Functional Limitations

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          Abstract. Adjusting strategies to manage daily goal pursuit with new functional limitations may impact not only the affect of patients, but also that of their partners. Associations between patients’ control strategies and both partners’ affect were examined at the onset of patients’ incontinence following prostatectomy. Eight-day diary data from 180 heterosexual couples were used to fit two-level models. In patients, investing personal resources to keep up goal pursuit despite incontinence (selective primary control) was associated with better affect, particularly when incontinence was pronounced. Yet, partners’ decreased negative affect coincided with patients’ asking for help and using technical aids (compensatory primary control) when the incontinence was severe. Patients and partners may benefit from different control strategies used by patients, especially when their functional limitations are pronounced.

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                Journal
                gro
                GeroPsych
                Hogrefe AG, Bern
                1662-9647
                1662-971X
                May 29, 2020
                2020
                : 33
                : 3
                : 155-169
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ]Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
                [ 2 ]Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw, Poland
                [ 3 ]Trauma, Health, & Hazards Center, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, USA
                [ 4 ]Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
                [ 5 ]University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Dynamics of Healthy Aging”, University of Zurich, Switzerland
                [ 6 ]Department of Urology, Helios Kliniken, Berlin, Germany
                [ 7 ]Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
                Author notes
                Nina Knoll, Division Health Psychology, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Germany, E-mail nina.knoll@ 123456fu-berlin.de
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0871-5559
                Article
                gro_33_3_155
                10.1024/1662-9647/a000229
                6606fcb4-28b8-4475-a9f3-606f27626782
                Distributed under the Hogrefe OpenMind License (https://doi.org/10.1027/a000001)
                History
                : July 23, 2019
                : February 26, 2020
                Funding
                Funding: This research was supported by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; KN 937/3-1). The contribution of Aleksandra Luszczynska was supported by grant no. BST/WROC/2018/A/09 from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland.
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                Geriatric medicine,Medicine,Psychology,Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                couples,radical prostatectomy,incontinence,affect,control strategies

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