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Title: Multiple Marital Dissolutions and Midlife Health
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Tumin, Dmitry |
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Multiple Marital Dissolutions and Midlife Health M.A Thesis, The Ohio State University, 2011. Also: http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Tumin%20Dmitry.pdf?osu1296507240 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Depression (see also CESD); Divorce; Health Factors; Marital Dissolution; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Marriage is strongly associated with better health. In part, this is due to the harmful effects of marital dissolutions. As remarriage becomes more common, so do multiple marital exits. It is unclear if more marital dissolutions lead to worse health. In this paper, I test whether multiple marital dissolutions – divorces and separations – exert a cumulative effect on health at midlife. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth ‘79, I find that depression and low self-rated health at midlife are less prevalent among the continuously married than among those who have ever experienced a marital dissolution. However, I find no evidence of a cumulative effect on health. Higher-order marital dissolutions appear to have less of an effect on health than first dissolutions. Stress and resource theories suggest people may adapt to a first dissolution in ways that reduce health harm from future dissolutions. |
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Tumin, Dmitry. Multiple Marital Dissolutions and Midlife Health. M.A Thesis, The Ohio State University, 2011.. |