ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2022
The Death of a Child and Parents' Psychological Distress in Mid to Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Exposure and Vulnerability.
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- Parental loss of a child and psychosocial outcomes among middle-aged and older adults: Longitudinal national evidence from Thailand, 2015-2022.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- Measuring premature and cumulative family member bereavement: Racial disparities and later mortality risk.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Motherhood Biographies and Health over the Life Course.Sociology compass · 2025Article
- Older Adults' Descendants and Family Networks in the Context of Global Educational Expansion.Population and development review · 2025Article
- Familial Loss of a Loved One and Biological Aging: NIMHD Social Epigenomics Program.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Parental Death Across the Life Course, Social Isolation, and Health in Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage in the U.S.Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2023Article
- A Time of Healing: Can Social Engagement After Bereavement Reduce Trajectories of Depression After the Death of a Child?The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Gender Differences in Depressive Symptoms Following Child Death in Later Life.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Social Isolation: An Unequally Distributed Health Hazard.Annual review of sociology · 2023Article
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- "Outside the Skin": The Persistence of Black-White Disparities in U.S. Early-Life Mortality.Demography · 2022Article
- Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults.Journal of health and social behavior · 2022Article
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objectivesThis study considered whether experiencing the death of a child is associated with subsequent psychological distress in older populations, as well as variation in both exposure and vulnerability to the death of a child among Black, Hispanic, and White older parents.
methodsWe used multilevel models to link the death of a child with subsequent distress for 9,763 non-Hispanic White, 2,496 non-Hispanic Black, 1,014 foreign-born Hispanic, and 712 U.S.-born Hispanic parents from the Health and Retirement Study, 2006-2016.
resultsThe death of a child is associated with increased psychological distress in mid to later life for Black, White, and Hispanic parents, with greater vulnerability for foreign-born Hispanic parents. Notably, Black and U.S.-born Hispanic parents are disadvantaged because of the additive effects of their greater exposure to bereavement and their higher distress levels regardless of bereavement status. These effects persist net of additional stressors associated with race/ethnicity. DISCUSSION: The death of a child is a traumatic life course event associated with lasting psychological distress for aging parents. Black and U.S.-born Hispanic parents are disadvantaged in that they are more likely than White parents to experience the death of a child, and foreign-born Hispanic parents may be disadvantaged by greater vulnerability to distress following child death.
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