Marital status and quality of relationships: The impact on health perception

doi:10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00158-X

Social Science & Medicine

Volume 44, Issue 2, January 1997, Pages 241-249

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Abstract

Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (1987–1988), this study investigates how a variety of family conditions (including marital status as well as the quality of marital and cohabiting relationships) influences global health perception among 12,274 American adults. Health perception tends to vary according to different subcategories of the unmarried status. Logistic regression analyses indicate that health perception depends on marital status as well as on the quality of marriage and cohabitation. The health impacts of marriage are also determined by social network support.

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Marital status and quality of relationships: The impact on health perception

Abstract

Social Science & Medicine

Social Science & Medicine

Social Science & Medicine

New realities of the American family

Population Bulletin

The impact of the family on health: the decade in review

Journal of Marriage and the Family

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Journal of Health and Social Behaviour

Health and Ways of Living: The Alameda County Study

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American Sociological Review

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Journal of Marriage and the Family

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Journal of Human Stress

Marital disruption and psychological well-being

Journal of Family Issues

The effect of marital disruption on children's health

Demography

Social relationships and health

Science

Marriage selection and mortality patterns: inferences and fallacies

Demography

Suicide: A Study in Sociology

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American Journal of Sociology

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American Journal of Public Health

The association of social relationships and activities with mortality: prospective evidence from the Tecumseh Community Health Study

American Journal of Epidemiology