Sentences with phrase «spousal age gap»

Model 2 adds the interaction term for marital status by the spousal age gap, which allows us to determine whether widowed persons married to spouses with large age differentials are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of health.

Differential selection, marital quality, and health behaviors partly account for some of the health disparities by marital status and spousal age gap.

It also compares the premarital sociodemographic profiles, marital quality, and health practices (during marriage) according to respondents» marital status and the size of the spousal age gap.

We focus on the spousal age gap because it has important implications for the family life of older adults.

The superscripts in the sixth and ninth columns denote the statistical significance of differences by the spousal age gap within each marital status.

Comparing coefficients across Models 3 and 4 will provide insights on the extent to which marital quality accounts for health disparities according to marital status and the spousal age gap.

This section focuses on mental health because (a) our analyses revealed that disparities in physical health by marital status or spousal age gap are not statistically significant and (b) results for mental and physical health follow a similar pattern.

We conclude by describing variations in health practices by marital status and the size of the spousal age gap.

We begin by describing variations in the mental and physical health summary scores by their marital status and spousal age gap.

The coefficient for the interaction term between widowhood and spousal age gap does not change with the addition of these covariates.

The first part describes variations in mental and physical health summary scores by their marital status and size of spousal age gap.

Table 3 reports a series of OLS regression models predicting variations in mental health outcomes by marital status and spousal age gap.

The aim of this study is to (a) document variations in the mental and physical health outcomes of married and widowed respondents, (b) ascertain whether widowed persons who were previously in age heterogamous unions are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of widowhood, and (c) assess the extent to which differential selection, marital quality, and health practices during marriage account for health disparities by marital status and spousal age gap.

Table 2 reports the distribution and means for all control variables, disaggregated by marital status and spousal age gap.

Combined with our analysis about the role of marital quality and health practices in engendering health disparities by marital status and the spousal age gap and the results of supplementary analyses showing that 77 % of surviving spouses in age heterogamous unions is the younger spouse, this finding lends support to the view that having an older spouse may have adverse effects on the younger spouse's health (Drefahl, 2010; Klinger - Vartabedian & Wispe, 1989; Rose & Benjamin, 1971).

bIt denotes that disparities between widowed persons who were previously in unions with varying degrees of spousal age gap are statistically different at the p <.05 level.

Our second independent variable is spousal age gap distinguishing respondents into two groups depending on the size of age differentials between spouses.

Interestingly, however, the mental health outcomes of respondents do not appear to differ depending on the size of the spousal age gap.

Model 1 estimates health disparities by marital status and size of spousal age gap, net of duration, and remarriage status.