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ArticleJournal of family issues2024

Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce.

Jesse Smith, Nicholas H Wolfinger

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Article in Journal of family issues, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jesse SmithDepartment of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9730-200X
Nicholas H WolfingerUniversity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Pennsylvania State University · USUniversity of Utah · US

Funding

Wave IV Data CollectionP01HD031921 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HARRIS, KATHLEEN MULLAN · 1994 to 2020
$86.1M
The Population Research Institute: Development CoreP2CHD041025 · NICHD · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI Sarah Damaske · 2016 to 2026
$9.0M
Training Program in Social Environments and Population HealthT32HD007514 · NICHD · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK · PI JOHN D. ICELAND · 1999 to 2026
$5.1M
NICHD NIH HHS P01 HD031921NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD041025NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD007514
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Premarital sex predicts divorce, but we do not know why. Scholars have attributed the relationship to factors such as differences in beliefs and values, but these explanations have not been tested. It is further unclear how this relationship changes by number of sexual partners, or differs by gender. We re-examine this relationship with event history models using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Models include measures of adolescent beliefs and values, religious background, and personal characteristics, as well as approximate number of premarital sexual partners in young adulthood. We find the relationship between premarital sex and divorce is highly significant and robust even when accounting for early-life factors. Compared to people with no premarital partners other than eventual spouses, those with nine or more partners exhibit the highest divorce risk, followed by those with one to eight partners. There is no evidence of gender differences.

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divorce/separationfamily demographylife coursequantitativesexuality

Identifiers

PMID38571758
PMCPMC10989935
OpenAlexW4320178905

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