Do the Married Really Live Longer? The Role of Cohabitation and Socioeconomic Status

Autor/in	Drefahl, Sven
Titel	Do the Married Really Live Longer? The Role of Cohabitation and Socioeconomic Status
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 74 (2012) 3, S.462-475 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
Schlagwörter	Socioeconomic Status; Marital Status; Females; Interpersonal Relationship; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Divorce; Mortality Rate; Statistical Data; Regression (Statistics); Risk; Denmark + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Familienstand; Weibliches Geschlecht; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Ausland; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ehescheidung; Mortalitätsrate; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Risiko; Dänemark
Abstract	Numerous studies have shown that married women and men experience the lowest mortality. Legal marital status, however, does not necessarily reflect today's social reality because individuals are classified as never married, widowed, or divorced even when they are living with a partner. Denmark is one of the forerunners of developments in coresidential partnerships and one of only a few countries where administrative sources provide individual-level information on cohabitation for the whole population. Using register information from Statistics Denmark on 3,888,072 men and women ages 18-65, the author investigated mortality differences by living arrangement with hazard regression models. Overall, premature mortality was found to be lowest for married persons, followed by cohabiting persons. Adjusting for socioeconomic status reduced excess mortality of nonmarried individuals. Moreover, a mortality-crossover effect emerged in which cohabiters with above-average socioeconomic status had a lower risk of dying than married people. This finding was particularly pronounced for men. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10