Marital quality, health, and aging: gender equity?
Marital quality, health, and aging: gender equity?
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婚姻质量、健康和老龄化：性别平等？
DOI：
10.1093/geronb/60.special_issue_2.s109
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发表时间：
2005
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通讯作者：
Williams,Kristi
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作者：
Umberson,Debra;Williams,Kristi
Recent research shows that poor marital quality adversely affects trajectories of physical health over time and that these adverse effects are similar for men and women. These studies test the possibility of gender differences in vulnerability to poor marital quality, but they fail to take into account possible gender differences in exposure to poor marital quality. We present longitudinal evidence to show that although the impact of marital quality on physical health trajectories may be similar for married men and women, generally lower levels of marital quality experienced by women may translate into a sustained disadvantage for the health of married women over the life course. These findings frame the call for renewed theoretical work on gender and marriage that takes into account both gender similarity in response to marital quality as well as gender differences in the experience of marriage over the life course.
