You Make Me Sick: Marital Quality and Health Over the Life Course

Author:

Umberson Debra1,Williams Kristi2,Powers Daniel A.3,Liu Hui4,Needham Belinda5

Affiliation:

1. Debra Umberson is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Research Associate at the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on gender, relationships, and health across the life course. She is currently writing a book that blends qualitative and quantitative data in the study of marital quality over the life course, and she is preparing a new study on relationships and health behavior over the life course.

2. Kristi Williams is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University and Research Associate at The Ohio State University Initiative in Population Research. Her research examines the influence of support and strain in family and other personal relationships on mental and physical health, with a particular focus on gender and life course variations in these patterns. Her recent projects include an examination of the influence of marital and cohabitation transitions on the health and well-being...

3. Daniel A. Powers is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin. His recent work uses sibling data to examine family structure and family formation as joint processes. He is also involved in research on racial disparities in infant mortality by cause of death. He conducts methodological work on longitudinal data for categorical outcomes.

4. Hui Liu is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology and Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include health, mortality, family, and quantitative methods.

5. Belinda Needham is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in the study of gender and health and is particularly interested in the link between mental and physical health over the life course.

Abstract

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.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Social Psychology

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