Living alone and psychological well-being in mid-life: does partnership history matter?

Demey, Dieter; Berrington, Ann; Evandrou, Maria; Falkingham, Jane

doi:10.1136/jech-2013-202932

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“…The proportion of men without children is high both among more educated and less educated men, though we might speculate that the pathways through which this occurs differ according to socio-economic status. Consistent with Demey et al (2014), we see a significant minority of socio-economically disadvantaged men who are not given the opportunity for family formation. Quantitative evidence from the 1970 and previous 1958 British cohorts (Berrington and Pattaro 2014) and qualitative evidence from Jamieson et al (2010) suggest that for some men (particularly socio-economically disadvantaged men), finding a partner can be very difficult, which leads indirectly to unfulfilled childbearing intentions.…”

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Childlessness in the UK

Berrington

2017

Demographic Research Monographs

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Childlessness in the UK

Berrington

2017

Demographic Research Monographs

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“…Thus, more attention should be paid to the impact of unmarried break-ups on the couples’ and children’s well-being, as this type of families is associated with higher instability (Thomson, 2014 ). Besides, the increase of divorces among the middle- and older-age population, termed as the ‘grey divorce revolution’ (Brown & Lin, 2012 ), would have a great influence on population and healthcare policies in the future, as relationship breakdowns among older adults were found to have great negative impacts on their physical and mental health (Demey, Berrington, Evandrou, & Falkingham, 2014 ; Gray, de Vaus, Qu, & Stanton, 2011 ).…”

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Decomposing the crude divorce rate in five countries: Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, the UK, and Australia

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Yip

2018

Asian Population Studies

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Over the past few decades, the level of divorce, measured by the crude divorce rate (CDR), has increased dramatically in both the East and the West, but has recently appeared to fall or level off in some countries. To investigate whether the recent decline or stabilisation of the CDRs reflects the real trends in divorce risk, a decomposition analysis was conducted on the changes in the CDRs over the past 20 years on two western and three East Asian countries, namely, the UK, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore. The following is observed: the decline in the CDRs of the UK and Australia in the 1990s, and of Taiwan and Korea in the 2000s, was mainly due to shrinkage in the proportion of the married population rather than any reduction in divorce risk; only Australia experienced a genuine reduction in divorce risk between 2001 and 2011; and the continuous increase of Singapore’s divorce level between 1990 and 2010 may be is an unintentional effect of the government’s marriage promotion policies. The shift in the population age structure, and more importantly, the drastic decline in marriage, has seriously distorted the CDRs, making them unreliable indicators for monitoring divorce trends.

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“…One specific point of interest is the varying magnitude of the health disadvantage of separated individuals across genders and cohorts and by duration of the dissolved union (Shor et al 2012;Liu 2012). Mental health risks are also modified by the number of unions formed and dissolved over a lifetime (Demey et al 2014;Grundy and Holt 2000). Furthermore, the mental health of people who separate starts to decline in the preceding 2-3 years, reaching a low point at dissolution and then improving over the next few years (Booth and Amato 1991;Simon 2002;Gardner and Oswald 2006;Blekesaune 2008;Wade and Pevalin 2004;Metsä-Simola and Martikainen 2013;Amato 2010).…”

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Risk of Major Depressive Episodes After Separation: The Gender-Specific Contribution of the Income and Support Lost Through Union Dissolution

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Marital status and union dissolution are strongly associated with health. Separated men and women have a mental health disadvantage compared to partnered individuals. The lower financial and social resources of separated individuals partly explained their poorer health. However, it is unclear whether this association is due to the loss in income and support precisely experienced through the separation. Due to the frequent asymmetry in partners' individual resources within couples, these losses are gender-specific, giving rise to a debate currently in France. As part of this debate, we explored to what extent gender-specific losses contribute to the separation/mental health association. We used the two-wave survey ''Health and Occupational Trajectories,'' looking at 7321 individuals aged 25-74 in couple in 2006. We analyzed their depressive symptoms self-reported at second wave (2010) and their association with separation between the two waves; we took into account the concomitant social and income changes, as well as the socioeconomic and health situation in 2006. Separation between 2006 and 2010 is significantly associated with depressive symptoms in 2010, independently of the situation in 2006; it is associated with a loss of income, mainly in women, and a loss of support,

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Living alone and psychological well-being in mid-life: does partnership history matter?

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

Childlessness in the UK

Childlessness in the UK

Decomposing the crude divorce rate in five countries: Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, the UK, and Australia

Risk of Major Depressive Episodes After Separation: The Gender-Specific Contribution of the Income and Support Lost Through Union Dissolution

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