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Guo X. Longitudinal Dyadic Associations between Depressive Symptoms and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Married Couples and the Moderating Effect of Within-Dyad Age Discrepancy. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph192013277. [PMID: 36293854 PMCID: PMC9603023 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192013277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Revised: 10/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Family systems theory defines the family unit as a complex social system in which individual members influence and are influenced by each other. The current study aimed to investigate the longitudinal dyadic associations between life satisfaction and depressive symptoms among a sample of Chinese married couples and the moderating effect of within-dyad age discrepancy. The current sample included 5773 married couples who completed three waves of assessments of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) in 2012, 2016, and 2018. The sample was categorized into two groups based on the within-dyad age discrepancy: the younger-wife-older-husband dyads (n = 4280, 74.13%) and the older-wife-younger-husband dyads (n = 1493, 25.86%). The longitudinal actor-partner interdependence models with multiple-group analysis were used to analyze the data. The results showed that a majority of actor effects were significant across time, and the two groups exhibited the same pattern among the actor effects. The older-wife-younger-husband dyads showed fewer significant partner effects than the younger-wife-older-husband dyads, and most partner effects indicated mutual rather than unidirectional influence. These findings yielded support for the statement of family systems theory that family members interconnect and that the development of one's well-being needs to be understood in the context of the spouse's well-being.
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- Xiamei Guo
- School of Public Policy, Xiamen University, Siming District, Xiamen 361005, China
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Meyer AC, Ebeling M, Drefahl S, Hedström M, Ek S, Sandström G, Modig K. The Impact of Hip Fracture on Geriatric Care and Mortality Among Older Swedes: Mapping Care Trajectories and Their Determinants. Am J Epidemiol 2022; 192:41-50. [PMID: 35968686 PMCID: PMC9825727 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwac149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Revised: 06/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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In this study, we examined the impact of hip fractures on trajectories of home care, nursing home residence, and mortality among individuals aged 65 years or more and explored the impacts of living arrangements, cohabitation, frailty, and socioeconomic position on these trajectories. Based on a linkage of nationwide Swedish population registers, our study included 20,573 individuals with first hip fracture in 2014-2015. Care trajectories during the 2 years following the fracture were visualized and compared with those of 2 hip-fracture-free control groups drawn from the general population: age- and sex-matched controls and health-matched controls identified through propensity score matching. Multistate modeling was employed to identify sociodemographic and health-related factors associated with care trajectories among hip fracture patients. We found that hip fracture patients already had worse health than the general population before their fracture. However, when controlling for prefracture health, hip fractures still had a considerable impact on use of elder-care services and mortality. Comparisons with the health-matched controls suggest that hip fractures have an immediate, yet short-term, impact on care trajectories. Long-term care needs are largely attributable to poorer health profiles independent of the fracture itself. This emphasizes the importance of adequate comparison groups when examining the consequences of diseases which are often accompanied by other underlying health problems.
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- Anna C Meyer
- Correspondence to Dr. Anna C. Meyer, Unit of Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, P.O. Box 210, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden (e-mail: )
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Spousal age-gaps, partner preferences, and consequences for well-being in four Colombian communities. EVOL HUM BEHAV 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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How evolutionary biology can explain why human and a few marine mammal females are the only ones that are menopausal. J Theor Biol 2022; 543:111123. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2021] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Youssim I, Israel S, Shapiro I, Calderon-Margalit R, Manor O, Paltiel O, Friedlander Y, Hochner H. Independent associations of inter-spousal gaps in age and education with long-term mortality and cancer survival: the Jerusalem Perinatal Study 1964 – 2016. Ann Epidemiol 2022; 70:32-36. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2022.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2021] [Revised: 03/13/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Uggla C, Wilson B. Parental age gaps among immigrants and their descendants: Adaptation across time and generations? Population Studies 2021:1-23. [PMID: 34939527 DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2021.1998583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Age gaps between partners have undergone dramatic changes in high-income countries over the past century. Yet, there has been little focus on age gaps for immigrants and their descendants. This is an important omission because age gaps can be interpreted as a macro-level indicator of intergenerational adaptation. We examine the age gaps of biological parents (childbearing partners) among immigrants and their descendants in Sweden, a country with high gender equality and a stable mean age gap. Using longitudinal, whole-population data, we examine changes in age gaps for cohorts born 1950-86. Cohort trends in age gaps often follow very different patterns for male and female immigrants, with limited evidence of adaptation across cohorts. However, there is considerable evidence of adaptation towards the Swedish norm among the second generation, including from direct comparison between immigrants and their children. The largest differences between women and men are seen among the first generation with a Swedish-born partner.
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- Stockholm University.,London School of Economics
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Lawson DW, Schaffnit SB, Hassan A, Urassa M. Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women's wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania. EVOL HUM BEHAV 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Halpern-Manners A, Raymo JM, Warren JR, Johnson KL. School performance and mortality: The mediating role of educational attainment and work and family trajectories across the life course. ADVANCES IN LIFE COURSE RESEARCH 2020; 46:100362. [PMID: 33456423 PMCID: PMC7808718 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Evidence of a strong negative correlation between adolescent academic performance and mortality points to the importance of not only cognitive, but also non-cognitive, skills in predicting survival. We integrated two bodies of research to evaluate expectations regarding the role of educational attainment and trajectories of employment and marriage experience in mediating relationships between high school class rank and longevity. In particular, we used data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (n = 9,232) to fit parametric mortality models from age 55 to age 77. Multiple mediator models allowed for quantification of the degree to which the association between high school class rank and mortality is mediated by life trajectories and educational attainment. Our results show that high school class rank is a statistically significant and substantively meaningful predictor of survival beyond age 55 and that this relationship is partially, but not fully, mediated by trajectories of employment and marriage experience across the life course. Higher educational attainment also mediates a substantial part of the relationship, but to varying degrees for men and women.
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Barclay KJ, Thorén RD, Hanson HA, Smith KR. The Effects of Marital Status, Fertility, and Bereavement on Adult Mortality in Polygamous and Monogamous Households: Evidence From the Utah Population Database. Demography 2020; 57:2169-2198. [PMID: 32935302 PMCID: PMC7732802 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-020-00918-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Although the associations among marital status, fertility, bereavement, and adult mortality have been widely studied, much less is known about these associations in polygamous households, which remain prevalent across much of the world. We use data from the Utah Population Database on 110,890 women and 106,979 men born up to 1900, with mortality follow-up into the twentieth century. We examine how the number of wife deaths affects male mortality in polygamous marriages, how sister wife deaths affect female mortality in polygamous marriages relative to the death of a husband, and how marriage order affects the mortality of women in polygamous marriages. We also examine how the number of children ever born and child deaths affect the mortality of men and women as well as variation across monogamous and polygamous unions. Our analyses of women show that the death of a husband and the death of a sister wife have similar effects on mortality. Marriage order does not play a role in the mortality of women in polygamous marriages. For men, the death of one wife in a polygamous marriage increases mortality to a lesser extent than it does for men in monogamous marriages. For polygamous men, losing additional wives has a dose-response effect. Both child deaths and lower fertility are associated with higher mortality. We consistently find that the presence of other kin in the household—whether a second wife, a sister wife, or children—mitigates the negative effects of bereavement.
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- Kieron J Barclay
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. .,Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. .,Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Population Science, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.,Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Population Science, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.,Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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OBJECTIVES Using dyadic genetic information on older couples, this study queried associations of a polygenic score for well-being with one's own as well as a partner's relationship experiences. METHOD Data were from the 2010 wave of the U.S. Health and Retirement Study. Analysis was through structural equation modeling. RESULTS Especially among women, the genetic score was associated with individuals' own relationship experiences. Genetic externalities-linkages of one's genes with a partner's experiences-were also observed. No significant gender variations emerged. DISCUSSION Contrary to conceptions implicit in much of existing genetics literature-which focuses on individuals' own gene-trait associations-the interpersonal environments most crucial to life course and health outcomes are shaped by the genes of all involved actors. Genetic externalities are a central component. Implications for the life course and gene-environment literatures are discussed.
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- Aniruddha Das
- Department of Sociology, 5620McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Gumà J, Spijker J. Are partner's features important to understand health at older ages? The Spanish case. GACETA SANITARIA 2019; 35:193-198. [PMID: 31530484 DOI: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2019.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2019] [Revised: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 07/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To analyse health differences among partnered individuals in Spain aged 65-81 considering their combined (education of both partners and age gap) and household (economic capacity of the household) characteristics. METHOD A cross-sectional study of the 2015 Spanish sample of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey (EU-SILC) on partnered individuals aged 65-81 years (N=1787). Using logistic regression models separately for women and men we obtained odds and predicted probabilities of having less than good health (95% confidence intervals) according to combined information from both partners on education and age, the household's economic capacity and partner's health status. RESULTS Probabilities of not having good health are significantly less among lower educated women whose partners are more highly educated (compared to both partners being lower educated) and among women whose partner is younger or has good health status. The latter also applies to men. Living in a household without economic difficulties also favours health (both sexes). CONCLUSIONS For both sexes a partner's health status is the variable that shows the largest effect on elderly partnered Spanish people's health but women's health appears to be more sensitive to their partner's educational attainment and the household's economic situation.
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- Jordi Gumà
- Department of Political and Social Sciences and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
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Tsuyuki K, Gipson JD, Barbosa RM, Urada LA, Morisky DE. Preventing syndemic Zika virus, HIV/STIs and unintended pregnancy: dual method use and consistent condom use among Brazilian women in marital and civil unions. CULTURE, HEALTH & SEXUALITY 2018; 20:1006-1022. [PMID: 29231077 PMCID: PMC5997495 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2017.1406535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Syndemic Zika virus, HIV and unintended pregnancy call for an urgent understanding of dual method (condoms with another modern non-barrier contraceptive) and consistent condom use. Multinomial and logistic regression analysis using data from the Pesquisa Nacional de Demografia e Saúde da Criança e da Mulher (PNDS), a nationally representative household survey of reproductive-aged women in Brazil, identified the socio-demographic, fertility and relationship context correlates of exclusive non-barrier contraception, dual method use and condom use consistency. Among women in marital and civil unions, half reported dual protection (30% condoms, 20% dual methods). In adjusted models, condom use was associated with older age and living in the northern region of Brazil or in urban areas, whereas dual method use (versus condom use) was associated with younger age, living in the southern region of Brazil, living in non-urban areas and relationship age homogamy. Among condom users, consistent condom use was associated with reporting Afro-religion or other religion, not wanting (more) children and using condoms only (versus dual methods). Findings highlight that integrated STI prevention and family planning services should target young married/in union women, couples not wanting (more) children and heterogamous relationships to increase dual method use and consistent condom use.
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- Kiyomi Tsuyuki
- Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, USA
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, USA
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- Núcleo de Estudos de População “Elza Berquó”, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Social Work, San Diego State University (SDSU), San Diego, USA
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, USA
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Lee WS, McKinnish T. The Marital Satisfaction of Differently Aged Couples. JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS 2018; 31:337-362. [PMID: 31598035 PMCID: PMC6785043 DOI: 10.1007/s00148-017-0658-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more satisfied with younger wives and less satisfied with older wives. Interestingly, women likewise tend to be more satisfied with younger husbands and less satisfied with older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction experienced by men married to younger wives and women married to younger husbands within 6 to 10 years of marriage. A possible mechanism is that differently-aged couples are less resilient to negative shocks compared to similarly-aged couples, which we find some supportive evidence for.
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Balistreri KS, Joyner K, Kao G. Trading Youth for Citizenship? The Spousal Age Gap in Cross-Border Marriages. POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW 2017; 43:443-466. [PMID: 29056785 PMCID: PMC5646827 DOI: 10.1111/padr.12072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Prior studies concerning patterns of intermarriage among immigrants have primarily focused on how factors such as race/ethnicity, educational attainment, and country of origin shape the choice of a spouse. Moreover, they have focused on intermarriage patterns among immigrants who are already in the US. Using the 2010-2014 American Community Survey (ACS), we focus on immigrants who were not US citizens at the time of their marriage and highlight patterns of status exchange, specifically, the exchange of youth for citizenship. Towards this end, we compare the age gap between spouses across four different groups of respondents: 1) non-citizens married to a citizen before or upon arrival to the US; 2) non-citizens married to a citizen after arrival to the US; 3) non-citizens married to a non-citizen before or upon arrival to the US; and 4) non-citizens married to a non-citizen after arrival in the US. We document the fact that a large fraction of marriages between citizens and non-citizens occurred before or upon arrival to the US. We also provide evidence that immigrants who migrate to the US after marrying a US citizen, particularly women, tend to be partnered with much older spouses, signaling an exchange of youth for citizenship.
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- Professor of Sociology, Bowling Green State University
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- Professor of Sociology, Education and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
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Gellatly C, Störmer C. How does marriage affect length of life? Analysis of a French historical dataset from an evolutionary perspective. EVOL HUM BEHAV 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Tatangelo G, McCabe M, Campbell S, Szoeke C. Gender, marital status and longevity. Maturitas 2017; 100:64-69. [DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2017.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2016] [Revised: 03/03/2017] [Accepted: 03/06/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Syse A, Lyngstad TH. In sickness and in health: The role of marital partners in cancer survival. SSM Popul Health 2016; 3:99-110. [PMID: 29349208 PMCID: PMC5769016 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2016] [Revised: 05/02/2016] [Accepted: 12/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Married cancer patients enjoy a survival advantage, potentially attributable to better health at diagnosis, earlier contact with health personnel, and/or access to resources to ensure more optimal treatment. These mechanisms only invoke the mere presence of a partner, but partners bring varying amounts of resources into the household. It is likely that also spousal resources contribute to differentials in survival net of own resources, as gradients in survival by the latter are well documented. Our aim is to examine the combined roles of own and spouses’ socioeconomic characteristics (SES) and age for cancer survival. Almost 268,000 married patients diagnosed with a first cancer after age 50 during 1975–2007 were identified from the Norwegian Cancer Registry and other national registers. In a sequence of hazard models, differences in survival by patients' own education, income and age and the role of spouses' characteristics were assessed. Furthermore, we also assessed the importance of homogamy/heterogamy along the same dimensions. Partners’ characteristics clearly matter for survival. The relative survival of patients with highly educated partners, net of their own education, is significantly higher than that of patients with lesser-educated partners. Somewhat similar effects are observed for income, net of education. A less consistent pattern is observed for age, although non-normative heterogamy patterns in age and income appear to be associated with a survival disadvantage. The naïve perspective of only considering the presence of partners may thus conceal important differences in cancer survival. Health personnel may take advantage of such knowledge in interactions with patients and their families, and gather information on resources in immediate networks that may impact prognosis favorable and/or unfavorable and help patients utilize these resources to improve prognosis. For married cancer patients, survival is influenced by the resources of spouses. As such, who you marry play a role for your survival. Having a highly educated and/or a high earning spouse appears to be beneficial. But, non-normative spousal patterns in age and SES appear to be disadvantageous. Married patients’ spousal resources may help shed light on inequalities in survival.
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- Astri Syse
- Statistics Norway, Dep. of Research, P.O. Box 8131 Dep., N-0033 Oslo, Norway
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- University of Oslo, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, P.O. Box 1096 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway
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Bhattacharya K, Ghosh A, Monsivais D, Dunbar RIM, Kaski K. Sex differences in social focus across the life cycle in humans. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2016; 3:160097. [PMID: 27152223 PMCID: PMC4852646 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2016] [Accepted: 03/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Age and gender are two important factors that play crucial roles in the way organisms allocate their social effort. In this study, we analyse a large mobile phone dataset to explore the way life history influences human sociality and the way social networks are structured. Our results indicate that these aspects of human behaviour are strongly related to age and gender such that younger individuals have more contacts and, among them, males more than females. However, the rate of decrease in the number of contacts with age differs between males and females, such that there is a reversal in the number of contacts around the late 30s. We suggest that this pattern can be attributed to the difference in reproductive investments that are made by the two sexes. We analyse the inequality in social investment patterns and suggest that the age- and gender-related differences we find reflect the constraints imposed by reproduction in a context where time (a form of social capital) is limited.
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- Kunal Bhattacharya
- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, PO Box 15400, Aalto 00076, Finland
- Author for correspondence: Kunal Bhattacharya e-mail:
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, PO Box 15400, Aalto 00076, Finland
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, PO Box 15400, Aalto 00076, Finland
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, PO Box 15400, Aalto 00076, Finland
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, PO Box 15400, Aalto 00076, Finland
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
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Poulain M, Herm A. Centenarians’ Marital History and Living Arrangements: Pathways to Extreme Longevity. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2015; 71:724-33. [DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbv082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Living arrangements and marital status: a register-based study of survival of older adults in Belgium at the beginning of the 21st century. AGEING & SOCIETY 2015. [DOI: 10.1017/s0144686x15001002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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ABSTRACTBeing married reduces the mortality risk of older persons. More generally, living arrangements that include co-residence with a source of support and a close care-giver are associated with a lower mortality risk. We build a detailed typology of private and collective living arrangements, including marital status, and check its association with mortality risks, controlling for health status. Using administrative data from the population register, we identify the living arrangement of all individuals aged 65 years and over living in Belgium as at 1 January 2002, and their survival during the year 2002. Data on health status are extracted from the 2001 census. We use binary logistic regression with the probability to die as outcome and living arrangement, health, age and gender as covariates. Our results show that mortality is more closely associated with actual living arrangements than with marital status. This association is age and gender-specific and remains even at very old ages. Living with a spouse is confirmed to be beneficial for survival but in older age living alone becomes more favourable. Of all living arrangements, older persons living in religious communities experience the lowest mortality risk whereas those living in nursing homes experience the highest risk.
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Kolk M. Age Differences in Unions: Continuity and Divergence Among Swedish Couples Between 1932 and 2007. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POPULATION-REVUE EUROPEENNE DE DEMOGRAPHIE 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10680-015-9339-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Spouses and depressive symptoms in older adulthood. Sci Rep 2015; 5:8594. [PMID: 25716455 PMCID: PMC4341217 DOI: 10.1038/srep08594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Depressive symptoms may co-occur within couples and follow similar trajectories, but relatively little is known about this process in old age. This study thus examined the association between some spousal characteristics (spouse's depressive symptoms, age difference between spouses) and the trajectory of depressive symptoms in older adults. Participants ≥ 65 years old were drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (N = 12,010; Mean age = 70.60 and 69.16 for target husbands and wives, respectively). Depressive symptoms were measured with a short form of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale. Hierarchical Linear Modeling was used to model up to 9 assessments of depressive symptoms of target spouses (Mean number of CESD assessments per target spouse = 3, range 1-9). Depressive symptoms between spouses were correlated; convergence over time was modest. For both husbands and wives, having a younger spouse was associated with more depressive symptoms at age 65. These results suggest that there is concordance between spouses' depressive symptoms and that the age difference between spouses contribute to depressive symptoms as couples enter old age. The association between spouses' depressive symptoms is nearly as strong as the effect of each decade increase in age.
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Kim JH, Park EC, Lee SG. The impact of age differences in couples on depressive symptoms: evidence from the Korean longitudinal study of aging (2006-2012). BMC Psychiatry 2015; 15:10. [PMID: 25651908 PMCID: PMC4330941 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-015-0388-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2014] [Accepted: 01/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Depression represents one of the most common psychiatric disorders among older adults. Married couples are affected frequently, and psychiatric problems usually affect marital satisfaction. Despite the frequency of such relationships, it appears that very few studies have examined the issues that arise in couples of this type of marriage. Therefore, we investigate whether age differences between couples affect extent of depressive symptoms among older adults. METHODS Our analysis included 2,881 couples (i.e., 2,881 households) at least 45 years of age at baseline (2006), in addition to 3,033 couples in 2008, 2,772 couples in 2010, and 2,711 couples in 2012. A generalized linear mixed model was used for the data analysis. RESULTS When the age difference between husbands and wives was 3 years or less, the estimated severity of depressive symptoms was 0.309 higher (SE = 0.084, p = 0.000) than that of same-aged couples. When the age gap was 3 years or more, the estimated severity of depressive symptoms was 0.645 higher (SE = 0.109, p < .0001) than that of same-aged couples. For every 1-2 years extra in age difference between wives and husbands, the estimated severity of depressive symptoms increased by 0.194 (SE = 0.082, p = 0.018), compared with same-aged couples. CONCLUSIONS Age differences between husbands and wives impact their relationship, including any particular marital issues encountered.
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- Jae-Hyun Kim
- Department of Public Health, Graduate School, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. .,Institute of Health Services Research, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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- Institute of Health Services Research, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. .,Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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- Institute of Health Services Research, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. .,Department of Hospital management, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Terry G. “Suddenly, bang, one day there's commitment with a woman…” Men, vasectomy and the life course. HUM FERTIL 2014; 17:197-202. [DOI: 10.3109/14647273.2014.949311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Choi KH, Vasunilashorn S. Widowhood, age heterogamy, and health: the role of selection, marital quality, and health behaviors. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2013; 69:123-34. [PMID: 24128991 DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbt104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Although the impact of widowhood on the surviving spouse's health has been widely documented, there is little empirical research examining whether certain spousal choice decisions and marital sorting patterns predispose individuals to be more vulnerable to the adverse consequences of widowhood for health. DESIGN AND METHOD We use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study and employ ordinary least squares models to (a) document variations in mental and physical health between married and widowed persons, (b) determine whether widowed persons in age heterogamous unions are especially vulnerable to the adverse consequences of widowhood, and (c) investigate to what extent differential selection, marital quality, and health practices account for health disparities by marital status and the spousal age gap. RESULTS Widowed persons, especially those in age heterogamous unions, have worse mental health than married persons, but they do not seem to be more disadvantaged in terms of physical health. Differential selection, marital quality, and health behaviors partly account for some of the health disparities by marital status and spousal age gap. DISCUSSION Our findings suggest that marrying a spouse who is very dissimilar in age may enhance one's vulnerability to the adverse consequences of widowhood for health.
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- Kate H Choi
- Correspondence should be addressed to Kate H. Choi, Department of Sociology, Social Science Centre Room 5306, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A5C2, Canada. E-mail:
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Poulain M, Herm A. Le registre de population centralisé, source de statistiques démographiques en Europe. POPULATION 2013. [DOI: 10.3917/popu.1302.0215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Berntsen KN, Kravdal Ø. The relationship between mortality and time since divorce, widowhood or remarriage in Norway. Soc Sci Med 2012; 75:2267-74. [DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.08.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2011] [Revised: 06/06/2012] [Accepted: 08/27/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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