ArticleJournal of family issues2022
The Trajectory of Subjective Well-Being: A Partial Explanation of the Marriage Advantage.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Parental Stress and Well-Being: A Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Psychological and functional factors associated with quality of life in comprehensive geriatric care: evidence from a multicenter observational cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Observational
- Exploring Social and Subjective Well-Being Among Married and Unmarried Students at a Latter-day Saints University.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Spouses' Individual and Shared Cumulative Risk: Implications for Functional Health and Longevity in Older Adulthood.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Factors Associated with Stigma and Beliefs About Psychotropics Among the Japanese Ancestry Population Diagnosed with Depression in Brazil.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Article
- Contextualizing marital dissatisfaction: examining profiles of discordant spouses across life domains.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Patterns of Singlehood, Cohabitation, and Marriage in Early Adulthood in Relation to Well-being in Established Adulthood.Research in human development · 2024Article
- Effect of Marriage on Burnout among Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Measurement of Love: Psychometric Properties and Preliminary Findings of the Short Love Scale (SLS-12) in a Polish Sample.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The relationship between gender, marital status and depression among Chinese middle-aged and older people: Mediation by subjective well-being and moderation by degree of digitization.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Perceived Marriage Squeeze and Subjective Well-Being Among Unmarried Rural Men in China: The Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
Although several studies have documented a distinct marriage advantage in well-being, it is still unclear what it is about marriage that renders this benefit. We hypothesize that it is due to factors theorized to accrue to matrimony, such as elevated financial status and specific social psychological supports. We examine the trajectory of subjective well-being for 1,135 respondents from the three-wave 2010 GSS panel survey utilizing linear mixed-effects modeling. We find that about two-fifths of the marriage advantage in subjective well-being is accounted for by a mixture of control variables, finances, and emotional factors, with most of this due to elements that are associated with the marital context. Higher annual income, enhanced interpersonal trust, greater sociability, and less of a sense of loneliness and isolation appear to be responsible for a substantial component of the marital advantage. We further find that the marriage advantage is invariant to both race and gender.
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