Union History and Midlife Health

工会历史和中年健康

• 批准号: 10471955
• 负责人: ZHENCHAO QIAN
• 金额: $ 7.97万
• 依托单位: BROWN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10471955
• 关键词: Adult; Age; American; Americas; Attention; Characteristics; Childhood; Chronic; Complex; Data; Dimensions; Divorce; Environment; Ethnic Origin; Event; Family; Gender; Goals; Health; Health Benefit; Heterogeneity; Individual; Institution; Knowledge; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Longitudinal Surveys; Marital Status; Marriage; Marriage Duration; Measures; Mental Health; Methodology; Modeling; Morbidity - disease rate; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth; Outcome; Personal Satisfaction; Play; Population Heterogeneity; Race; Recording of previous events; Research; Respondent; Risk; Role; Sampling; Sequence Analysis; Shapes; Social Class; Spouses; Stress; Structure; Time; United States; Unmarried person; Widowhood; Work; aged; design; experience; health disparity; innovation; marital age; middle age; mortality; neglect; physical conditioning; response; social

Abstract Married individuals have substantially lower risks of morbidity and mortality and enjoy better health than unmarried people. Yet marriage may represent only one stage over an individual’s life course, and health benefits of marriage may depend on marital age and duration. Furthermore, cohabitation before marriage and union status after marriage may also contribute to health outcomes later in life. Recent work has moved from research on health disparities by marital status or transition to focus its attention on union history and health. However, measures of union history do not capture cumulative effects that unfold over the life course and neglect how earlier union experiences may shape the health consequences of later unions. In this application, we propose a life course perspective and posit that union history (including timing, duration, and sequencing of singlehood, marriage, cohabitation, dissolution, and/or widowhood) in earlier adult life influences health outcomes in midlife. The data from the 2016 wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) represent a milestone in which all respondents had reached age 50 and answered health questions designed for that age. We apply sequence analysis to capture the complete structure of union history. Our approach is innovative in that we identify prototypical union history trajectories through measures of timing, duration, and sequencing of individuals’ union events in earlier adult life, which correspond well with how life course experiences may have cumulative effects on midlife health. We investigate how gender, race/ethnicity, and social class shape union history trajectory, how union history trajectory influences midlife health outcomes, and how the relationships between union history trajectory and midlife health outcomes vary by gender, race/ethnicity, and social class. This work will yield knowledge of how increasingly complex union history trajectories contribute to growing health disparities among America’s diverse populations.

抽象的 与已婚人士相比，已婚人士的发病和死亡风险要低得多，而且健康状况更好 未婚人士。然而，婚姻可能只代表个人生命历程的一个阶段，而健康 婚姻的好处可能取决于婚姻年龄和持续时间。此外，婚前同居和 婚后的同居状况也可能有助于日后的健康状况。最近的工作已经从 对不同婚姻状况或变性的健康差异进行研究，将注意力集中在婚姻历史和健康上。 然而，对工会历史的衡量并没有捕捉到生命历程中展开的累积效应， 忽视了早期的婚姻经历如何影响后来的婚姻对健康的影响。在这个应用程序中， 我们提出了生命历程的观点，并假设结合历史（包括时间、持续时间和顺序） 成年早期的单身、结婚、同居、离婚和/或丧偶）会影响健康 中年的结果。 1979年全国青年纵向调查（NLSY79）2016年的数据 这是一个里程碑，所有受访者均年满 50 岁并回答了设计的健康问题 对于那个年龄。我们应用序列分析来捕获联合历史的完整结构。我们的方法是 创新之处在于，我们通过时间、持续时间和时间的衡量来确定典型的工会历史轨迹。 个人在成年早期的结合事件的顺序，与生命历程非常吻合 经历可能会对中年健康产生累积影响。我们调查性别、种族/民族如何 社会阶层塑造工会历史轨迹，工会历史轨迹如何影响中年健康结果，以及 婚姻历史轨迹与中年健康结果之间的关系如何因性别而异， 种族/民族和社会阶层。这项工作将让我们了解日益复杂的工会历史 这些轨迹导致美国不同人群之间的健康差距日益扩大。