Marital loss, mental health and the role of perceived social support: findings from six waves of an Australian population based panel study

Hewitt, Belinda; Turrell, Gavin; Giskes, Katrina

doi:10.1136/jech.2009.104893

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“…Furthermore, HRQoL is negatively affected by increasing age and the occurrence of subjective memory problems. These findings are in line with a previous Australian population-based longitudinal study [13]. Moreover, the significant effect of living situation (transitions to living alone in private household decreased HRQoL significantly in the total sample and in women) should be interpreted with some caution since standard errors were quite high.…”

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“…This holds true even after adjusting for various confounders. This seems to be implausible as, generally, women tend to invest more than men in social support, irrespective of age [1,13,18,60]. Yet, on the other side, women's high social ties over the course of life might lead to a faster compensation for the loss of social support in old age.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…In particular, as recently stated by Craigs et al [12], the causality between social predictors and HRQoL in old age remains almost unclear as only a few studies have examined the influence of social support on HRQoL in a longitudinal setting [13][14][15].…”

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“…This would imply that women might be more careful than men the second time around (Poortman, 2007), with women having a weaker desire to marry or cohabit again than men-although it should be noted that recent findings on his and her marriage are inconsistent (see review by Carr & Springer, 2010). In addition, some research shows that the social-psychological impact of union dissolution is stronger for women than men (Willitts, Benzeval, & Stansfeld, 2004;Hewitt et al, 2012). Given this greater impact, we would also expect women to be more cautious leading to weaker preferences for cohabitation or marriage.…”

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“…Bell and Lee (2006) report also that early or 'out of order' life course transitions (such as a first birth before finishing full time education or marrying) during women's early life course (up to age 27) are associated with higher levels of smoking. Last, two studies addressed changes in health over the divorce transition (Hewitt & Turrell 2011;Hewitt, Turrell & Giskes 2012). These studies found declines in mental health for both sexes upon divorce or widowhood, and smaller negative effects on physical health for men.…”

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Family formation patterns and physical health in Australia: a life course approach

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Social science has long studied the relationships between processes of family formation and health, although empirical patterns in this domain of study are often variable, and their interpretation uncertain. Constrained by lack of suitable data, analytic techniques, and conceptual tools, work in this area has until recently been largely static, focussed on documenting and interpreting crosssectional associations between occupancy of family roles and health. However, as data and methodology matured and developed economies continued their transition away from the once dominant 'male breadwinner' model of the family, more sophisticated approaches that acknowledge the dynamic relationships between family formation and health have become both more feasible and more urgent.This thesis applies a life course approach to the study of family formation and health in the (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014), and form the primary material for four empirical chapters. The first empirical chapter utilizes multichannel sequence analysis and growth models to investigate how holistic patterns of family formation (incorporating both partnership and fertility trajectories from ages 18-50) are associated with trajectories of physical health at ages 51 and older. For men, family life course trajectories characterized by early family formation, failure to marry, or early divorce without subsequent remarriage are found to be predictive of poorer health outcomes, while for women only those who experienced high fertility paired with a disrupted marital history were found to be in poorer health than those who experienced a normatively 'standard' family life course.The second, third, and fourth empirical chapters focus on different aspects of the relationship between parental age at first birth and later life heath. The first of these contextualizes changes in first birth timing in historical context, presents a descriptive analysis of the characteristics of younger/older first time mothers and fathers, and uses multinomial logistic regression to assess the contribution of early-life family and socio-economic disadvantage, health, and cognitive and noncognitive skills to first birth timing. Consistent with prior research, background family disadvantage and age at school leaving was found to have strong effects on birth timing, in particular for women.ii There was also some evidence of health selection into early first birth, with the largest effects again found for women.The third empirical chapter considers the effect of first birth timing on long-term health outcomes (ages 41 and older). In addition to the primary issue of whether there is an effect of birth timing on health, the analysis pays particular attention to several research questions: first, which pre- as mechanisms, as changes at the time of the parenthood transition and in the years thereafter did not differ depending on age at first birth. Younger parents do experience potentially harmful changes in alcohol use and soc...

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Marital loss, mental health and the role of perceived social support: findings from six waves of an Australian population based panel study

Abstract: Marital loss significantly decreased mental health. Increasing, or maintaining, high levels of social support has the potential to improve widowed men's mental health immediately after the death of their spouse.

Cited by 87 publications

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Gender differences in the effect of social support on health-related quality of life: results of a population-based prospective cohort study in old age in Germany

Gender differences in the effect of social support on health-related quality of life: results of a population-based prospective cohort study in old age in Germany

Gender differences in relationship preferences after union dissolution

Family formation patterns and physical health in Australia: a life course approach

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