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Title: Family Formation History and the Psychological Well-Being of Women from Diverse Racial-Ethnic Groups
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Crosnoe, Robert Johnston, Carol A. Cavanagh, Shannon Gershoff, Elizabeth T. |
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Family Formation History and the Psychological Well-Being of Women from Diverse Racial-Ethnic Groups Journal of Health and Social Behavior 64, 2 (24 March 2023): 261-279. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00221465231159387 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Depression (see also CESD); Family Characteristics; Family Roles; Health, Mental/Psychological; Life Satisfaction; Motherhood; Mothers; Mothers, Health; Parental Marital Status; Parenthood; Racial Studies; Relationships/Partnerships; Women; Women, Black; Women, Latina; Women, White; Womens Health Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Studying disparities in psychological well-being across diverse groups of women can illuminate the racialized health risks of gendered family life. Integrating life course and demand–reward perspectives, this study applied sequencing techniques to the National Longitudinal Study of Youth: 1979 to reveal seven trajectories of partnership and parenthood through women’s 20s and 30s, including several in which parenthood followed partnership at different ages and with varying numbers of children and others characterized by nonmarital fertility or eschewing such roles altogether. These sequences differentiated positive and negative dimensions of women’s well-being in their 50s. Women who inhabited any family role had greater life satisfaction and fewer depressive symptoms, although these general patterns differed by race-ethnicity. Family roles were more closely related to well-being than ill-being for White women, parenthood had more pronounced importance across outcomes for Black women, and the coupling of partnership and parenthood generally mattered more for Latinas. |
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Crosnoe, Robert, Carol A. Johnston, Shannon Cavanagh and Elizabeth T. Gershoff. "Family Formation History and the Psychological Well-Being of Women from Diverse Racial-Ethnic Groups." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 64, 2 (24 March 2023): 261-279.
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