ReviewThe American psychologist2018
Marriage, divorce, and the immune system.
Review in The American psychologist, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- How spousal, friend, and family ties predict health: Within- and between-person effects across 16 years.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026Article
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- Explaining the reasons for the divorce of young couples in Western Iran: A qualitative Study from the Beneficiary's point of view.PloS one · 2026Article
- Association of marital status with affective temperament, education, occupation, and bonding style.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Association between marital status and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute coronary syndrome: a multivariable logistic regression analysis.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Are Marital Status and Quality Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases?Current vascular pharmacology · 2026Article
- A holistic review of fatherhood in humans and non-human animals: mechanisms of fatherhood, effects on fathers themselves, and interactions of fathers with others.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Differential associations between relationship stressors and natural killer cell gene expression by race/ethnicity and sex among older U.S. adults.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2025Article
- Partner strain and support associations with affective reactions to daily stressors.Family relations · 2025Article
- Marital Failure and Subsequent Heart Failure: A Prospective Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Prevalence and social determinants of self-reported health status among reproductive age women in Nepal.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Partnership and marriage and risk of type 2 diabetes: a narrative review.Diabetologia · 2025Review
- Partners Now Parents: Supporting Couples During the Journey to Parenthood.Family process · 2025Article
- Exploring how attachment insecurities mediate the link between sexual and partnership satisfaction in adolescents and young adults with cancer.Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) · 2025Article
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- How patients experience discussing couple relationship problems with GPs: an interview study.BJGP open · 2024Article
- The Interaction of Positive and Negative Relationship Characteristics and Their Association with Relationship and Individual Health Outcomes in Older Couples.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Couples in breast cancer survivorship: Daily associations in relationship satisfaction, stress, and health.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
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Abstract
This article reviews evidence from several lines of work to describe how marriage and divorce can provoke health-relevant immune alterations, including ways that marital closeness can be perilous for health and divorce can be beneficial. The multiple stresses of a troubled relationship are depressogenic, and the development of a mood disorder sets the stage for psychological and biological vulnerability. Depression provides a central pathway to immune dysregulation, inflammation, and poor health; gender-related differences in depression and inflammation can heighten risk for women compared to men. Sleep and obesity can simultaneously feed off depression as they promote it. In addition, spousal similarities in health behaviors, gene expression, immune profiles and the gut microbiota offer new ways to consider the health advantages and risks of marriage and divorce, providing new perspectives on couples' interdependence, as well as new directions for research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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