Many contemporary studies find that married couples are more satisfied with life than unmarried people. However, whether marriage makes people or likely to marry remains a debated question. We reassess this relationship panel data from the German Family Panel (pairfam) and extend previous analyses by adding individual trajectories (slopes) standard fixed-effects regressions (FEIS). thereby able...

We use data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) study to investigate the extent to which: (1) five personality traits (agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability/neuroticism, extraversion, and openness) moderate the effect of late-life spousal loss on depressive symptoms; (2) these patterns vary based on the expectedness of the death; and (3) the patterns documented in (1...

I examine the ways that bereaved older adults attribute responsibility for their late spouses' deaths, and the consequences of such attributions for psychological adjustment to loss. Data are from the Changing Lives of Older Couples, a prospective study of married persons ages 65 and older Bereaved persons whose late spouse smoked and had a sedentary lifestyle attributed higher levels of blame ...

Discrete-time hazard regression models were employed to register and census data on 1.4 million Norwegian married couples from 1974-2001 to explore the probability of divorce following cancer illness. Divorce rates for around 215 000 persons diagnosed with cancer were compared to divorce rates for persons for whom all the other observed variables were the same. No overall harmful influence of a...

"Since 1971 the indigenous population of Australia has trebled. From 1991 to 1996 numbers grew by 33 percent, 16 percent more than had been projected. This unexpected increase was highest in the southeast, especially in Tasmania and the ACT. Much of it can be explained by out-marriage. In 1996, 64 percent of couples (in married or de facto relationships) included a non-indigenous partner. Most ...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence and causes of functional paralysis in the United States. METHODS We used the 2013 US Paralysis Prevalence & Health Disparities Survey to estimate the prevalence of paralysis, its causes, associated sociodemographic characteristics, and health effects among this population. RESULTS Nearly 5.4 million persons live with paralysis. Most persons with paralys...

Despite a common disorder population-based data on gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) in Bangladesh is lacking. This epidemiological study was designed to determine the prevalence of GERD and its association with lifestyle factors. This population-based cross-sectional study was done by door to door interview of randomly selected persons in both urban and rural areas of North Eastern part ...

the main purpose of this study was to obtain accurate information about the psycho-social factors and epidemiological characteristics of the people who attempted suicide in hamadan. during one year, 667 individuals who had benn brought to 4 emergency centers in jamadan for attempting suicide, completed the personal data sheet, mmpi, and bdi.results indicated that 63% of this group (423 persons)...

BACKGROUND Previous research has shown large and increasing relative differences in mortality by marital status in several countries, but few studies have considered trends in cause-specific mortality by marital status among elderly people. METHODS The author uses discrete-time hazard regression and register data covering the entire Norwegian population to analyze how associations between mar...