{"title":"Gendered Social Chains of Risk: Pathways of Childhood Maltreatment, Adolescent Peer Networks, and Depressive Symptoms","authors":"Molly Copeland, Christina Kamis","doi":"10.1177/00221465251333064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251333064","url":null,"abstract":"Childhood maltreatment is a serious stressor affecting mental health directly and indirectly through relationships, creating social chains of risk. Adolescent peers are one key relationship in the early life course, but whether peer networks mediate associations between maltreatment and mental health or if such pathways differ by gender remains unclear. We conduct path analysis on survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 9,118) to examine gendered chains of risk linking childhood maltreatment, adolescent peer networks, and depressive symptoms. Results show that emotional abuse and physical neglect are associated with depressive symptoms through lower popularity (avoidance) and lower cohesion (fragmentation) for girls. For boys, sexual abuse and physical neglect are associated with depressive symptoms through lower sociality (withdrawal). Results indicate gendered social chains of risk through peer networks, contributing to our understanding of gender, childhood maltreatment, adolescent social networks, and early life course mental health.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining Longitudinal Relationships between Social Support and Strain in Relationships with Children and Older Adults’ Cognitive Functioning","authors":"Jennifer Caputo, Linda Waite, Kathleen A. Cagney","doi":"10.1177/00221465251335039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251335039","url":null,"abstract":"Relationships with children are often highly salient to older adults and can be characterized by both social support and strain. Although research suggests that social support and strain are linked to older adults’ cognitive functioning, few studies have considered reciprocal effects or examined potential explanatory mechanisms. This study uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (N = 7,639) to examine longitudinal, bidirectional relationships between social support and strain in relationships with children and cognitive functioning among older U.S. adults. Results from dynamic panel models suggest that higher social support from children predicts modestly better later cognitive functioning and that strain from children is negatively linked to subsequent cognition. Older adults with higher cognitive functioning report less later strain in relationships with children. Depressive symptoms and receipt of children’s help with functional limitations play modest roles in helping to explain associations between social support and strain from children and cognitive functioning.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"136 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143875825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sangeetha Madhavan, Estelle Monique Sidze, Kirsten Michelle Stoebenau, Michael A. Wagner, Carol Wangui Wainaina
{"title":"Does Marriage Benefit Maternal Mental Health? New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya","authors":"Sangeetha Madhavan, Estelle Monique Sidze, Kirsten Michelle Stoebenau, Michael A. Wagner, Carol Wangui Wainaina","doi":"10.1177/00221465251330840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251330840","url":null,"abstract":"It has long been known that marriage is a critical correlate of mental health, primarily through relationship quality and support from partner. However, in contexts where couples struggle to maintain a healthy relationship and marriage is an increasingly protracted process, the benefits of marriage for women’s mental health are far from assured. In this analysis, we draw on survey and qualitative data from a longitudinal study in two low-income communities in Nairobi, Kenya, to unpack the complex relationships among the conditions of marriage, kinship support, and the risk of depression among mothers with young children. Using cross-lagged, mediation, and growth models, we find some support for the benefits of union formalization for mothers’ mental health explained primarily through relationship satisfaction. Qualitative data help explain the pathways through which these benefits accrue but also highlight ways in which the process of formalizing a union can undermine mothers’ mental health.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143875882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristin Turney, Rachel Bauman, MacKenzie A. Christensen, Rebecca Goodsell
{"title":"Stress Proliferation or Stress Relief? Understanding Mothers’ Health during Son’s Incarceration","authors":"Kristin Turney, Rachel Bauman, MacKenzie A. Christensen, Rebecca Goodsell","doi":"10.1177/00221465251330848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251330848","url":null,"abstract":"Social stressors proliferate to impair the health of those connected to the person enduring the stressor, but they can simultaneously offer relief from other stressors. Using in-depth interviews with 69 mothers of incarcerated men, we investigate mothers’ descriptions of how the stressor of their adult son’s incarceration impairs their health. First, mothers overwhelmingly describe how the increased instrumental, emotional, and financial responsibilities following their son’s confinement damage their health. Second, despite these increased responsibilities, most mothers simultaneously describe stress relief following their son’s incarceration, which may offset some of their health impairments. Third, these processes are situated in a broader social context, with increased responsibilities most salient when mothers have caregiving relationships with their grandchildren and stress relief most salient when their sons endure cyclical incarceration. These findings, which expand our understanding of the symbiotic harms of incarceration for mothers’ health, highlight the complexity of responses to social stressors.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143876318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaking Bonds, Changing Habits: Understanding Health Behaviors during and after Marital Dissolution.","authors":"Andrea M Tilstra, Nicole Kapelle","doi":"10.1177/00221465251320079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251320079","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Marital dissolution is a stressful transition that can lead to unhealthy coping strategies, including smoking and drinking. Using fixed effect linear probability models to assess health behavior changes, we analyzed 6,607 women and 6,689 men in the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia data set who were either continuously married or experienced marital separation between 2002 and 2020. We observed 1,376 separations (744 women, 632 men). We found that drinking and smoking increases leading to and in the year of separation, with variability by gender, education, and parenthood status. From Cox proportional hazards models, we showed that among individuals who smoked (N = 337) or drank (N = 756) in the year of separation, cessation was most likely for the highly educated and/or women. Unhealthy coping mechanisms throughout marital dissolution suggests a need for targeted support to those separating, especially for men and those with children and lower education.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465251320079"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Painful Subjects, Desiring Relief: Experiencing and Governing Pain in a Medical Cannabis Program.","authors":"Ryan T Steel","doi":"10.1177/00221465241240467","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241240467","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cannabis can provide patients benefits for pain and symptom management, improve their functionality, and enhance their well-being. Yet restrictive medical cannabis programs can limit these potential benefits. This article draws on four years of research into Minnesota's medical cannabis program-one of the most restrictive in the United States-including in-depth interviews with patients and a survey of health care professionals. Drawing on the new materialist concepts of Deleuze and Guattari, this article analyzes (a) the benefits patients in Minnesota's medical cannabis program derive from cannabis, (b) how program restrictions mediate access to cannabis and its derived benefits, and (c) some key ways in which medical and criminal justice institutional authorities are reconfigured around medical cannabis. I show how the imperative to authoritatively govern \"dangerous drugs\" persists in consequential ways as the War on Drugs shifts toward a medicalized, criminalized, and commercial-legalized mixed regime.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"92-108"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141861630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health: Evidence from a Cohort of U.S. Young Adults.","authors":"Alec P Rhodes, Rachel E Dwyer, Jason N Houle","doi":"10.1177/00221465241268477","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241268477","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The debt collection industry in the United States has grown in tandem with rising indebtedness. Prior research on debt and mental health mainly treats debt as a resource and liability rather than a power relationship between creditors and debtors. We study the mental health consequences of debt collection pressure using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1997 Cohort (N = 7,236). Drawing on stress theory and health power resources theory, we posit collection pressure as a relational stressor that undermines well-being through negative interactions with debt collectors, financial strain, role strain, and stigma. We find that more than one out of every three young adults in this cohort faced debt collection pressure by around age 40, with higher rates among low-income and Black young adults. Individual fixed-effects and lagged dependent variable regression models indicate that debt collection pressure is associated with increased psychological distress, with more severe consequences among low-income young adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"38-56"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11867886/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142121137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net.","authors":"Meredith Van Natta","doi":"10.1177/00221465241254390","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241254390","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines how U.S. immigration law extends into the health care safety net, enacting medical legal violence that diminishes noncitizens' health chances and transforms clinical practices. Drawing on interviews with health care workers in three U.S. states from 2015 to 2020, I ask how federal citizenship-based exclusions within an already stratified health care system shape the clinical trajectories of noncitizens in safety-net institutions. Focusing specifically on cancer care, I find that increasingly anti-immigrant federal policies often reshape clinical practices toward noncitizens with a complex, life-threatening condition as they approach a \"specialty care cliff\" by (1) creating time penalties that keep many noncitizens in a protracted state of injury and (2) deterring noncitizens from seeking care through threats of immigration enforcement. Through these processes, medical legal violence also creates the potential for moral injury among health care workers, who must adapt clinical practices in response to socio-legal boundaries of belonging.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"109-123"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11869504/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141768013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefanie Mollborn, Jennifer A Pace, Bethany Rigles
{"title":"JHSB Policy Brief: Children's Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities.","authors":"Stefanie Mollborn, Jennifer A Pace, Bethany Rigles","doi":"10.1177/00221465251315281","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465251315281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143069599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People.","authors":"Maggie L Thorsen, Janelle F Palacios","doi":"10.1177/00221465241236448","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241236448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Early initiation and consistent use of prenatal care is linked with improved health outcomes. American Indian birthing people have higher rates of inadequate prenatal care (IPNC), but limited research has examined IPNC among people living on American Indian reservations. The current study uses birth certificate data from the state of Montana (n = 57,006) to examine predictors of IPNC. Data on the community context is integrated to examine the role of community health in mediating the associations between reservation status and IPNC. Results suggest that reservation-dwelling birthers are more likely to have IPNC, an association partially mediated by community health. Odds of IPNC are higher for reservation-dwelling American Indian people compared to reservation-dwelling White birthers, highlighting intersecting inequalities of race and place.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"57-74"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140307795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}