The Changing Relationship of Marital Status to Reported Happiness

Glenn, Norval D.; Weaver, Charles N.

doi:10.2307/351999

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“…In terms of reported happiness, the positive effects of marriage have declined slightly between 1972 and 1986, especially for women (Glenn and Weaver, 1988), and recent studies show a weaker association between marriage and well-being than did earlier studies (Haring-Hidore, Stock, Okum, and Witter, 1985). Nonetheless, marital happiness is still the largest contributor to overall happiness (Glenn and Weaver, 1988). For men and women, now as before, marriage is associated with physical and psychological well-being.…”

Section: Patternsmentioning

confidence: 74%

The Impact of the Family on Health: The Decade in Review

Ross¹,

Mirowsky²,

Goldsteen³

1990

Journal of Marriage and the Family

774

545

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Section: Patternsmentioning

confidence: 74%

The Impact of the Family on Health: The Decade in Review

Ross¹,

Mirowsky²,

Goldsteen³

1990

Journal of Marriage and the Family

774

545

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“…It is established that married people are typically happier than the unmarried 4 but that among the unmarried the never married are happier than previously married but divorced or widowed people (e.g. Glenn & Weaver, 1988;Peters & Liefbroer, 1997;Waite, 1995). Clark and Oswald (2002) translated the experience of life-events relating to partnerships into a monetary 'compensation amount'.…”

Section: An Empirical Testmentioning

confidence: 99%

Happiness in the Garden of Epicurus

2007

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Epicurus was a philosopher who lived in Greece in the 3rd century B.C. Like his contemporaries, he was much concerned with the question of how to live a good life. In his view the Chief Good is to decrease pain and increase pleasure. Though Epicurus is reputed for advocating the pursuit of refined sensorial pleasures, he recognized the need for deferring gratification or enduring pain. He advised his followers to lead a modest and contemplative life in friendly communities. His advice can be characterized as 'serene hedonism'. This paper explains that position and considers its applicability for the present day. It concludes that Epicureanism was quite accurate in describing the conditions of happiness and that he offered valuable guidelines in dealing with hardship and difficult emotional content. His ideas that happiness is the same as the absence of pain and that one should withdraw from society are less fortunate. It made him assume that happiness automatically follows if one is in the right state of mind, and that there is no need to actively seek interaction with the environment for the betterment of the circumstances of life. However, Epicurus' advice might have been a good option for his contemporaries given the societal turmoil in his times.

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“…If happy people are more likely to marry or cohabit than less happy people, the average level of happiness in a population will (other things equal) decline as the more happy part of the population marry or start living together with a partner (Glenn & Weaver, 1988;Mastekaasa, 1995). But the average level of the married/cohabiting population will also decline: Initially, only the happiest will be married/cohabiting, but over time progressively less happy people will enter the married/ cohabiting population.…”

Section: The Potential Impact Of Differential Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is marriage/cohabitation beneficial for young people? Some evidence on psychological distress among Norwegian college students

Mastekaasa

2006

J. Community. Appl. Soc. Psychol.

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Although a large number of studies have examined the association between marital status or cohabitation on the one hand and psychological distress on the other, few have looked specifically at young people. Theoretically, the effects of marriage may be expected to vary with age, and differential selection into or out of marriage/cohabitation may also have different implications at different age levels. This paper uses cross-sectional data on about 2300 Norwegian college students aged from 19 to 30; for nearly 1000 of these two-wave panel data are also used. Psychological distress is measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), and linear regression analysis is used. Cross-sectional analyses show that among female students marriage/cohabitation is associated with less distress. For male students the association changes with age; in the youngest group, married/ cohabiting men are more distressed than those living alone, this is reversed beyond about 23 years of age. The longitudinal analyses show that termination of marriage/cohabitation is associated with increased distress. Going from single living to marriage/cohabitation does not seem to have any effect, however. These results are interpreted as providing some tentative support for social selection effects, and for the stressfulness of terminating a marriage or relationship of cohabitation.

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The Changing Relationship of Marital Status to Reported Happiness

Cited by 143 publications

References 13 publications

The Impact of the Family on Health: The Decade in Review

The Impact of the Family on Health: The Decade in Review

Happiness in the Garden of Epicurus

Is marriage/cohabitation beneficial for young people? Some evidence on psychological distress among Norwegian college students

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