Journal Article
Partnership transitions and mental distress: investigating temporal order
Authors
Publication date
2008
Abstract
The study uses 15 waves of the British Household Panel Survey and the General Health Questionnaire to investigate changes in mental distress over several years surrounding transitions both into and out of marital partnerships (marriages and cohabitations) using fixed effects models. Entering marital partnerships is associated with reduced distress in separated or divorced individuals but not with those not previously married. Partnership dissolution is associated with very high levels of distress, but most people experience levels of distress a few years after leaving a partnership similar to that of a few years before leaving. These results vary, however, between married and cohabiting individuals, between fathers and mothers, and between age and gender groups.
Published in
Journal of Marriage and the Family
Volume
70 (4):879-890
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00533.x
Subjects
Family Formation And Dissolution and Well Being
Links
http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/record=b1585092~S5
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