You make me sick: Marital quality and health over the life course
You make me sick: Marital quality and health over the life course
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DOI：
10.1177/002214650604700101
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发表时间：
2006-03-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Needham, B
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作者：
Umberson, D;Williams, K;Needham, B
我们从生命历程的角度出发，确定了几个理由，可以预期婚姻质量和健康之间的联系存在年龄和性别差异。我们提出了一项全国性纵向调查的增长曲线证据，表明婚姻紧张加速了随着时间的推移而发生的自我评估健康的典型下降，并且这种不利影响在年龄较大时更大。这些发现与最近关于累积逆境的理论研究相吻合，即随着时间的推移，婚姻紧张似乎对健康有累积效应——随着年龄的增长，这种效应会使人越来越容易受到婚姻紧张的影响。与预期相反，婚姻质量似乎在一生中以相似的方式影响着男性和女性的健康。
We work from a life course perspective and identify several reasons to expect age and gender differences in the link between marital quality and health. We present growth curve evidence from a national longitudinal survey to show that marital strain accelerates the typical decline in self-rated health that occurs over time and that this adverse effect is greater at older ages. These findings fit with recent theoretical work on cumulative adversity in that marital strain seems to have a cumulative effect on health over time-an effect that produces increasing vulnerability to marital strain with age. Contrary to expectations, marital quality seems to affect the health of men and women in similar ways across the life course.