Rising median age at marriage and increasing lifestyle differentials across occupations suggest that increasingly offer important signals of the economic cultural resources potential spouses. Scant attention has been paid to occupational

BACKGROUND Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is associated with genetic and environmental factors, and undergalactosylation of IgA1 in the serum is considered to be a contributor to pathogenesis of IgAN. The present study was conducted to detect the galactose- (Gal) deficient IgA1 level in Chinese IgAN patients and their family members. METHODS Sixty-three IgAN patients were enrolled, where...

power is an important social variable in the study of the social structure, institutions, groupsand individuals considered to be a conventional relationship and family is no exception. themain purpose of this article to review the decision making power of women in the family iswhite and its influencing factors. this research is a quantitative survey, which was conductedin 2011 in the town of pr...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between the burden level of spouses of patients in the symptomatic remission state of the major depressive disorder (MDD; 60 patients) or bipolar disorder (BD; 65 patients) and coping styles. METHODS The Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire was used to assess the burden magnitude. Coping styles were evaluated by the Cop...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess social support and psychological and physical states among Japanese patients with breast cancer and their spouses prior to surgery. DESIGN Descriptive, comparative, and correlational. SETTING A general hospital in northern Japan. SAMPLE 38 Japanese patients with breast cancer and their spouses (N = 76). METHODS The Japanese versions of three questionnaires w...

Age at marriage varies greatly over time and between places. This study examines changes in age differences spouses, as well marriage, 200 years Taiwan Sweden. Changes across vastly different socioeconomic demographic contexts are explored these two kinship systems. Five data sources used to create micro-level on spousal for Swedish marriages formed 1830 2006 Taiwanese ones that occurred 1870 2...