In this article, we argue that past efforts to distinguish among types of intimate partner violence in general survey data have committed a critical error—using data on current spouses to develop operationalizations of intimate terrorism and situational couple violence. We use ex-spouse data from the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS) to develop new operationalizations. We then demo...

Quality of Life is the viewpoint or perspective individuals regarding how good their currently experienced life is. In later adulthood (old age), there are many changes, such as changes in physical and cognitive abilities, also social roles emotional conditions, especially on elderly women whose husband spouse had passed away. This condition can affect individuals. The goal this research was im...

Using data from a community sample of 586 married couples, levels of spouse concordance for lifetime and current alcohol dependence and heavy drinking were estimated. In addition, marital quality ratings in concordant and discordant couples were compared. Spouse concordance was significant for lifetime alcohol dependence and for both lifetime and current heavy drinking. Marital quality varied a...

The authors analyzed whether the effect of marriage on recidivism varied by spousal criminality. For this purpose, they used propensity score matching and full population data from Statistics Denmark on all unmarried and previously convicted men from birth cohorts 1965-1985 (N = 102,839). The results showed that marriage reduced recidivism compared to nonmarriage only when the spouse had no cri...

The mutual effects of depressive symptoms between couples have long been reported; however, it remains unknown whether the spousal concordance in differs depending on relationships. Data 291 married from Korean Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (KSHAP) were examined. KSHAP collected global network data target population living one village over eight years across five waves. A seemingly unr...

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status maybe correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within the home. Consistent with the hypothesis that greater economic resources yield greater bargaining pow...

Data on 7,424 soldier spouse abuse offenders were analyzed to determine the prevalence of substance use during abusive incidents, and to examine differences between substance-using and non-substance-using offenders. Results showed that 25% of all offenders used substances during abusive incidents, with males and non-Hispanic Whites being more likely to hav e used substances. Substance-using off...

In this article, we argue that past efforts to distinguish among types of intimate partner violence in general survey data have committed a critical error--using data on current spouses to develop operationalizations of intimate terrorism and situational couple violence. We use ex-spouse data from the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS) to develop new operationalizations. We then dem...

Abstract Loneliness and isolation worsen health wellbeing have been exacerbated by COVID-19, represent a significant concern for supporting older adults. Music listening has effects that could be particularly supportive during periods of isolation. The aim this study is to examine adults’ music behaviour the COVID-19 pandemic explore music's social emotional impact in context. Semi-structured i...