Spouses' Health at Midlife and Wife Breadwinning Dynamics Across the Life Course

配偶中年健康状况和妻子一生养家糊口的动态

• 批准号: 8369499
• 负责人: Kristen W. Springer
• 金额: $ 7.74万
• 依托单位: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIV OF N.J.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-30 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8369499
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Affect; Aging; American; Attention; Attenuated; Characteristics; Child; Childhood; Confounding Factors (Epidemiology); Couples; Data; Economics; Education; Family; Frequencies; Gender; Health; Husband; Income; Individual; Intervention; Left; Length; Life Cycle Stages; Link; Marriage; Measures; Medical; Mental Health; Nature; Outcome; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Periodicity; Public Health; Race; Recording of previous events; Regression Analysis; Relative (related person); Research; Research Project Grants; Respondent; Retirement; Sampling; Scholarship; Sex Characteristics; Shapes; Source; Spouses; Staging; Testing; Time; United States Social Security Administration; Wife; Woman; Women' s Health; age difference; cohort; demographics; health disparity; health inequalities; innovation; male; men; middle age; physical conditioning; psychosocial

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this project we examine the relationship between marital income dynamics (wives' higher earnings, in particular) and the mental and physical health of husbands and wives at midlife (51- 61 years old) using a life course of administrative earnings data and longitudinal latent class analyses. This is a demographically critical issue because wives are increasingly likely to be the primary earner. For example, 22% of wives earned more than their husbands in 2007, compared to only 4% in 1970. Further, wives' higher earnings destabilize traditional ideas of men as breadwinners and have consequently been linked with poorer physical and mental health for husbands of wife breadwinners. However, most prior research focuses only on men and relies on short-term snapshots of wives' higher earnings contributions (i.e., one to three year periods), despite recent evidence that wives' higher earnings are unstable and fluctuate widely over the life course. These gaps leave many unresolved questions about the relationship between wives' higher earnings and the health of married men and women. We address these unresolved questions by conducting longitudinal latent class and regression analyses of 30 years (1962-1991) of couple-level Social Security Administration earnings data from one cohort of the Health and Retirement Study (couples born between 1931 and 1941). We link these couple- level life course earnings data to husbands' and wives' physical and mental health in 1992 (when the sample is 51 to 61 years old). Specifically, we propose to: 1) identify life course dynamics of wives' higher earnings (i.e., length, frequency, transitions into/out of, and life course stage of wives' higher earnings) that may relate to mental and physical health at midlife; 2) examine how these dynamics of wives' higher earnings differentially relate to men's and women's health at midlife; and 3) explore how these documented health relationships are confounded by covariates including demographics, education, and low marital income and/or are caused by health selection as measured by childhood health. This research will be the first to identify distinct and varied patterns of wife breadwinning across a near life course of earnings. Linking these latent class patterns of wife breadwinning to midlife health can illuminate an under-studied correlate of poorer health among aging married couples and a potential cause of gendered health differences within marriage, thereby making important contributions to scholarship on the SES gradient in health, income and health in marriage, and gender differences in health. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed project will advance scholarship on the SES gradient in health, on marital income and health, and on gendered health differences for aging men and women. The findings from this research can be used by public health and medical practitioners to develop psychosocial interventions for families adjusting to the changing economics of marriage.

描述（由申请人提供）：在这个项目中，我们研究婚姻收入动态（特别是妻子的高收入）和中年（51- 61岁）丈夫和妻子的心理和身体健康之间的关系，使用管理收入数据和纵向潜在类别分析的生命历程。这是一个人口统计学上的关键问题，因为妻子越来越有可能成为主要的挣钱者。例如，2007年有22%的妻子比丈夫挣得多，而1970年只有4%。此外，妻子收入较高动摇了男子是养家糊口者的传统观念，因此与养家糊口的妻子的丈夫的身心健康较差有关。然而，大多数先前的研究只关注男性，并依赖于妻子较高收入贡献的短期快照（即，尽管最近有证据表明，妻子的较高收入并不稳定，而且在一生中波动很大。这些差距留下了许多悬而未决的问题，即妻子的高收入与已婚男女的健康之间的关系。我们解决这些悬而未决的问题进行纵向潜在类和回归分析的30年（1962-1991年）的夫妇级社会保障管理局的收入数据从一个队列的健康和退休研究（夫妇出生于1931年和1941年之间）。我们将这些夫妇层面的生命历程收入数据与1992年（样本为51至61岁）丈夫和妻子的身心健康状况联系起来。具体而言，我们建议：1）确定妻子收入较高的生命历程动态（即，（2）研究妻子高收入的这些动态变化与中年男性和女性健康的差异;以及3）探索这些记录的健康关系如何被协变量混淆，包括人口统计学，教育，婚姻收入低和/或由儿童健康衡量的健康选择造成。这项研究将是第一个确定不同的和不同的模式，妻子养家糊口在近一生的收入过程。将这些潜在的妻子养家糊口的阶级模式与中年健康联系起来，可以阐明老龄化已婚夫妇健康状况较差的一个研究不足的相关性，以及婚姻中性别健康差异的一个潜在原因，从而为SES梯度健康，收入和婚姻健康以及健康中的性别差异的奖学金做出重要贡献。 公共卫生关系：拟议的项目将促进在健康、婚姻收入和健康以及老年男女的性别健康差异方面的社会经济地位梯度的奖学金。这项研究的结果可以被公共卫生和医疗从业人员用来为家庭制定心理社会干预措施，以适应不断变化的婚姻经济。