How Do Marital Transitions Affect Self-Perceptions of Aging?

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Research on Aging Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1177/01640275221113219

Shelbie G Turner, Dakota D Witzel, Robert S Stawski, Karen Hooker

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Abstract

Objectives: We analyzed whether marital status and experiences of marital loss or gain were associated with self-perceptions of aging (SPA), a major psychosocial mechanism of healthy aging.

Method: We used data from 7028 participants of the Health and Retirement Study. Participants reported their marital status and their positive and negative SPA on two occasions 4 years apart. We ran general linear models to analyze differences in SPA between men and women who remained married, became divorced or widowed, or remarried following divorce or widowhood.

Results: Participants who experienced marital loss had lower positive SPA than participants who remained marred. Participants who experienced marital gain had lower negative SPA than participants who remained married. None of the associations differed between men and women.

Discussion: Results suggest that it may not be marital status itself, but rather the transition into or out of marriage, that impacts how people appraise their own aging.

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婚姻变迁如何影响对衰老的自我认知?

目的:我们分析婚姻状况和婚姻得失经历是否与衰老自我感知(SPA)相关，SPA是健康老龄化的主要社会心理机制。方法:我们使用7028名健康与退休研究参与者的数据。参与者报告了他们的婚姻状况以及他们的SPA阳性和阴性情况，时间间隔为4年。我们运行一般线性模型来分析已婚、离婚或丧偶、离婚或丧偶后再婚的男性和女性的SPA差异。结果:经历过婚姻损失的参与者比保持婚姻的参与者有更低的阳性SPA。经历过婚姻收获的参与者的负SPA低于保持婚姻的参与者。这些关联在男性和女性之间没有差异。讨论:结果表明，可能不是婚姻状况本身，而是进入或退出婚姻的过渡，影响了人们如何评估自己的衰老。

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Research on Aging GERONTOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Research on Aging is an interdisciplinary journal designed to reflect the expanding role of research in the field of social gerontology. Research on Aging exists to provide for publication of research in the broad range of disciplines concerned with aging. Scholars from the disciplines of sociology, geriatrics, history, psychology, anthropology, public health, economics, political science, criminal justice, and social work are encouraged to contribute articles to the journal. Emphasis will be on materials of broad scope and cross-disciplinary interest. Assessment of the current state of knowledge is as important as provision of an outlet for new knowledge, so critical and review articles are welcomed. Systematic attention to particular topics will also be featured.