The impacts of marriage, cohabitation and dating relationships on weekly self-reported physical activity in Germany: A 19-year longitudinal study

Rapp, Ingmar; Schneider, Björn

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.09.024

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“…Farrell and Shields (2002), Downward (2007) and Humphreys and Ruseski (2015) find positive and negative associations between physical activity and marriage depending on the activity, with Wicker et al, (2009) andRuseski et al, (2011) finding mixed effects according to the activity when there are children in the household. Finally, Rapp and Schneider (2013) identify that more formal cohabitation status, such as marriage, reduced physical activity more than cohabitation and dating relationships.…”

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confidence: 97%

‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity

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Rasciute

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 97%

‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity

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2016

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Indeed, Worsley (1988) showed that husbands detrimentally influence the diet of their wives by increasing the consumption of fat and meat while reducing that of fruit and vegetables. Also, married individuals, particularly women, have been found to exercise less than those who are never married (Rapp and Schneider, 2013). Consistent with these findings, the negative-protection explanation predicts that, in a marriage, weight-controlling behaviors (e.g., regular exercising) will be "crowded out" and less healthy eating habits (e.g., consumption of convenience food) will spread; consequently, the BMI of married individuals can be expected to be higher than that of never marrieds.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Importantly, all analyses reported in this manuscript included interactions with gender or were separated by gender because gender has been suggested to differentially impact health and health-related behaviors (e.g. Rapp and Schneider, 2013;Worsley, 1988).…”

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Higher body mass index, less exercise, but healthier eating in married adults: Nine representative surveys across Europe

Mata

Frank

Hertwig

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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Numerous studies show that married individuals enjoy better health than those who were never married. This representative survey examines whether they also have a healthier body mass index (BMI) and weight-related behaviors, and tests four independent explanations. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with representative samples (N = 4555) from nine European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, UK). On average, never married respondents had a lower BMI than married respondents (p = .048). Married individuals reported stronger preferences for organic/fair trade food and regional/unprocessed food, and paying less attention to dietary convenience or dietary fat and body weight. Importantly, married men also exercised less (all ps < .05). Despite these behavioral differences, only attention to dietary fat and body weight (p = .001) predicted BMI differently for married versus never married men. There were few country differences in the relationship between marital status and BMI. All analyses were controlled for age and socio-economic status. In conclusion, despite more favorable eating-related cognitions and behaviors, married respondents had a higher BMI than never married respondents, but differences were small. The link between marital status and BMI cannot be fully described by one single explanation. Obesity interventions may benefit from considering specific weight-related behaviors in married versus never married individuals.

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“…Married couples are expected to spend more of their leisure time engaged in inactive behavior as opposed to physical activity (Rapp/Schneider 2013; Schmeer 2012). Rapp and Schneider (2013) used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to show that being in a relationship as well as cohabiting or being married were all associated with reduced weekly physical activity for both men and women. Contrary to the predictions of the marriage market hypothesis, however, the effects of cohabitation and marriage on physical activity were very similar.…”

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Do relationship transitions affect body weight? Evidence from German longitudinal data

Huyer-May¹

2018

JFamRes

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Despite a considerable amount of empirical studies it is still unclear if changes in union status affect body weight. Using data from the first seven waves of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (pairfam) project, the current study aims to discover if changes in relationship status lead to changes in body weight considering multiple union transitions with fixed-effects panel regression estimations. Results show that women lose weight within the first year of a relationship, and then gain weight after entering into a non-married cohabiting relationship. Men tend to gain weight from the beginning of the partnership. The results clearly show that the transition from non-married cohabitation to marriage has no significant effect on body weight.

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The impacts of marriage, cohabitation and dating relationships on weekly self-reported physical activity in Germany: A 19-year longitudinal study

Cited by 55 publications

References 31 publications

‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity

‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity

Higher body mass index, less exercise, but healthier eating in married adults: Nine representative surveys across Europe

Do relationship transitions affect body weight? Evidence from German longitudinal data

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