Health Status and Transitions in Cohabiting Relationships of American Young Adults

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ID2287005
AutoresBrandon Wagner (0000-0002-1023-4762, Texas Tech University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume81
Fascículo4
Páginas847-862
Data de publicação2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Marriage and the Family (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-2445 • E-ISSN: 1741-3737
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jomf.12572
PMID31772415
OpenAlexW2932300434
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas55

Objective: This study examines whether individual health predicts cohabiters' union transitions to marriage in American young adults.Background: Associations between health and subsequent marital transitions are well documented, but less is known about how health influences transitions of cohabiting relationships. As cohabitation has become a common relationship experience, understanding how health may influence cohabiters' union transitions is an important component of how health shapes relationship exposures more broadly.Method: Data were taken from Waves III and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, including the supplemental collection of relationship partners conducted during Wave III. Competing-risk regressions for the transition of cohabiting unions to marriage were estimated in two samples: individuals and a smaller sample of cohabiting couples with information from both partners.Results: Healthier cohabiters are more likely to marry than are their less healthy counterparts, but only women's health is significantly associated with the transition to marriage. In the dyadic sample with information from both partners, the significant association between the female partner's health and the transition to marriage is robust to male partner characteristics, including health.Conclusion: Health is an important predictor of cohabitation transitions in early adulthood, but these transitions may only be sensitive to the female partner's health

Adolescent health · Cohabitation · Developmental psychology · Longitudinal data · Longitudinal study · Marital status · Political science · Population · Sociology · Transition (genetics · Young adult · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology