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This study examines four dimensions of health at mid-life: chronic conditions, mobility limitations, self-rated health, and depressive symptoms.
The experience of marital disruption damages health, with the effects still evident years later; among the currently married, those who have ever been divorced show worse health on all dimensions. Both the divorced and widowed who do not remarry show worse health than the currently married on all dimensions. Dimensions of health that seem to develop slowly, such as chronic conditions and mobility limitations, show strong effects of past marital disruption, whereas others, such as depressive symptoms, seem more sensitive to current marital status. Those who spent more years divorced or widowed show more chronic conditions and mobility
limitations.
Source
Hughes Mary Elizabeth; Waite Linda J (Profiled Author: Mary Elizabeth Hughes)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Journal of health and social behavior 2009;50(3):344-58.
http://www.experts.scival.com/jhu/pubDetail.asp?t=pm&id=19711810&n=&u_id=2665
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