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Robert M. Fernquist - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Three Explanations of Marital Status Differences in Suicide Rates: Social Integration, Marital Status Integration, and the Culture of Suicide
Omega, 2008Co-Authors: Phillips Cutright, Robert M. FernquistAbstract:Our first goal is to link empirical measures of three theoretical explanations of Marital Status differences to the variation in male and female standardized suicide difference coefficients SSDCs in 12 developed countries, circa 1960. We include predictors of Durkheim's social integration hypothesis, Gibbs and Martin's concept of Marital Status integration, and norms on suicide acceptability. All three are significantly related to variation in male and female SSDCs. The second goal is to examine how our empirical indicators impact age-specific differences in the male minus female SSDC--differences that vary by age in all 12 of our study populations. The strongest predictor of these differences is the male minus female difference in the percent married.
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Marital Status Integration, Suicide Disapproval, and Societal Integration as Explanations of Marital Status Differences in Female Age‐Specific Suicide Rates
Suicide & life-threatening behavior, 2007Co-Authors: Phillips Cutright, Steven Stack, Robert M. FernquistAbstract:Sociological analyses of suicide have often neglected female suicide rates. Three competing explanations are tested to determine why the suicide rates of married women are, typically, lower than the suicide rates of women who are not married: (1) Marital Status integration, (2) societal integration, and (3) a nation's normative order about disapproval of suicide. Data refer to age and Marital Status-specific female suicide rates from 12 developed countries. The results provide the strongest support for the Marital Status integration theory and consistent support for the social integration perspective. There is also mixed support for the cultural disapproval of suicide hypothesis.
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Marital Status integration, psychological well-being, and suicide acceptability as predictors of Marital Status differentials in suicide rates
Social Science Research, 2005Co-Authors: Phillips Cutright, Robert M. FernquistAbstract:Abstract Age–gender–Marital Status-specific 1979 and 1992–1994 US White suicide rates test the hypotheses that Marital Status differences in these suicide rates are caused by (1) Marital Status differences in Marital Status integration, (2) Marital Status differences in psychological well-being, and/or (3) Marital Status differences in suicide acceptability. A proxy for years spent in a Marital Status was included in the analysis of all age groups. The dependent variable is the standardized suicide difference coefficient. In multiple regression analysis, psychological well-being and suicide acceptability were consistently related to the dependent variable for persons aged 20–54, 55 and over, and 20 and over, while Marital Status integration was related to the dependent variable only for persons 20–54 and 20 and over.
Phillips Cutright - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Three Explanations of Marital Status Differences in Suicide Rates: Social Integration, Marital Status Integration, and the Culture of Suicide
Omega, 2008Co-Authors: Phillips Cutright, Robert M. FernquistAbstract:Our first goal is to link empirical measures of three theoretical explanations of Marital Status differences to the variation in male and female standardized suicide difference coefficients SSDCs in 12 developed countries, circa 1960. We include predictors of Durkheim's social integration hypothesis, Gibbs and Martin's concept of Marital Status integration, and norms on suicide acceptability. All three are significantly related to variation in male and female SSDCs. The second goal is to examine how our empirical indicators impact age-specific differences in the male minus female SSDC--differences that vary by age in all 12 of our study populations. The strongest predictor of these differences is the male minus female difference in the percent married.
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Marital Status Integration, Suicide Disapproval, and Societal Integration as Explanations of Marital Status Differences in Female Age‐Specific Suicide Rates
Suicide & life-threatening behavior, 2007Co-Authors: Phillips Cutright, Steven Stack, Robert M. FernquistAbstract:Sociological analyses of suicide have often neglected female suicide rates. Three competing explanations are tested to determine why the suicide rates of married women are, typically, lower than the suicide rates of women who are not married: (1) Marital Status integration, (2) societal integration, and (3) a nation's normative order about disapproval of suicide. Data refer to age and Marital Status-specific female suicide rates from 12 developed countries. The results provide the strongest support for the Marital Status integration theory and consistent support for the social integration perspective. There is also mixed support for the cultural disapproval of suicide hypothesis.
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Marital Status integration, psychological well-being, and suicide acceptability as predictors of Marital Status differentials in suicide rates
Social Science Research, 2005Co-Authors: Phillips Cutright, Robert M. FernquistAbstract:Abstract Age–gender–Marital Status-specific 1979 and 1992–1994 US White suicide rates test the hypotheses that Marital Status differences in these suicide rates are caused by (1) Marital Status differences in Marital Status integration, (2) Marital Status differences in psychological well-being, and/or (3) Marital Status differences in suicide acceptability. A proxy for years spent in a Marital Status was included in the analysis of all age groups. The dependent variable is the standardized suicide difference coefficient. In multiple regression analysis, psychological well-being and suicide acceptability were consistently related to the dependent variable for persons aged 20–54, 55 and over, and 20 and over, while Marital Status integration was related to the dependent variable only for persons 20–54 and 20 and over.
Kate M. Bennett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Does Marital Status and Marital Status change predict physical health in older adults
Psychological medicine, 2006Co-Authors: Kate M. BennettAbstract:Evidence for the effects of Marital Status and Marital Status change on physical health is equivocal. Structural equation models examined whether Marital Status predicted physical health. Six groups were examined simultaneously: married (M); widowed (W); divorced (D); never married (NM); newly widowed (NW); and newly divorced (ND). There were four annual measures (T1-T4). Both NW and ND were married at T1, but had lost their partners by T2. Four physical health variables were examined: Problems, Limitations, Service use, and Self-rated health (SRH). Age and gender were included. Previous health predicted future for all measures and for all groups. However, the specific strengths and time-courses varied between Marital Status groups and between health measures. The most marked patterns were associated with Marital Status change. Service use was influenced most strongly by NW, whilst Limitations was influenced by ND. Problems distinguished NW and ND from stable Marital Status groups but also from each other. SRH was influenced by W and not by recent Marital Status change. The effects of age and gender were modest and restricted to specific health variables and specific Marital Statuses. The results demonstrate that Marital Status and Marital Status change, in particular, influence health longitudinally. The impact of a change to divorced or to widowed Status is not the same. No two health variables responded in the same way, suggesting that Marital Status has a differential effect on health.
Debra Umberson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Marital Status, Marital Transitions, and Body Weight
Journal of health and social behavior, 2009Co-Authors: Debra Umberson, Hui Liu, Daniel A. PowersAbstract:We consider how Marital Status and Marital transitions, important features of the social environment, influence weight change over time, and how these effects vary by age, race, and gender. Growth curve analysis of a four-wave national survey suggests that Marital transitions are more important than Marital Status in predicting change in body weight, and that Marital dissolution is more important than Marital formation in affecting weight. Widowhood effects on weight loss are a particular concern for population health trends, especially among African Americans.
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Marital Status, Marital Transitions, and Health: A Gendered Life Course Perspective
Journal of health and social behavior, 2004Co-Authors: Kristi Williams, Debra UmbersonAbstract:We work from a life course perspective to assess the impact of Marital Status and Marital transitions on subsequent changes in the self-assessed physical health of men and women. Our results suggest three central conclusions regarding the association of Marital Status and Marital transitions with self-assessed health. First, Marital Status differences in health appear to reflect the strains of Marital dissolution more than they reflect any benefits of marriage. Second, the strains of Marital dissolution undermine the self-assessed health of men but not women. Finally, life course stage is as important as gender in moderating the effects of Marital Status and Marital transitions on health.
Andrej Marusic - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Suicide risk and its relationship to change in Marital Status.
Crisis, 2011Co-Authors: Saška Roškar, Anja Podlesek, Marja Kuzmanić, Lucija Omejc Demšar, Metka Zaletel, Andrej MarusicAbstract:Different types of Marital Status are associated with different levels of suicidal risk. To study Marital Status change and the effect of its recency in relation to suicidal behavior. Suicide victims (1614) in Slovenia and matched controls (4617) were compared for incidence and recency of Marital Status change during the last 5 years of their lives. A higher percentage of suicide victims (10.7%) had a Marital Status change in the last 5 years compared with the controls (5.6%). All types of Marital Status changes (becoming widowed, getting divorced, getting married) proved to be risk factors for suicidal behavior. Almost half of all Marital Status changes in suicide victims occurred in the year prior to suicide, whereas Marital Status changes in the control group were equally distributed over the last 5 years. For recently married and divorced people, the increase in suicide risk depended on age: The risk was higher in older people. Marital Status change represents a risk factor for suicidal behavior. The first year after the change is critical for elevated suicidal risk, in particular for older people.
