@article {11298, title = {Older Couples Coping With Adverse Life Events: The Importance of Dyadic Personality Profiles}, journal = {Innovation in Aging}, volume = {4}, year = {2020}, pages = {582-583}, abstract = {Personality can be an important resource as older couples cope with adverse life events. Analyzing 4,893 older couples from the Health and Retirement Study, this study examined how one{\textquoteright}s own and spouse{\textquoteright}s adverse life events (health decline, job exit, loss of wealth, family member{\textquoteright}s death) occurring in the past two years are associated with changes in depressive symptoms. We further examined the moderating effects for this association of six dyadic personality profiles (combinations of spouses{\textquoteright} positive and negative personality characteristics). We found significant actor and partner effects of health decline for increases in both spouses{\textquoteright} depressive symptoms, and significant actor effects of a family death for husbands{\textquoteright} increased depressive symptoms. For wives, having positive personality profiles buffered negative effects of one{\textquoteright}s own health decline and spouses{\textquoteright} family death, whereas having negative profiles intensified negative effects of husbands{\textquoteright} job exit and loss of wealth on the depressive symptoms for both spouses.}, keywords = {dyadic personality profiles, Older couples}, isbn = {2399-5300}, doi = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7741535/}, author = {Wang, Shuangshuang and Kim, Kyungmin and Jeffrey A Burr} }