Zhe Meredith Zhang, Qi Li, Cynthia Colen, Rin Reczek
{"title":"Multigenerational Coresidence and Psychological Distress during Adolescence and Young Adulthood: An Exploration among White, Black, And Hispanic Individuals.","authors":"Zhe Meredith Zhang, Qi Li, Cynthia Colen, Rin Reczek","doi":"10.1177/00221465261444786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261444786","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465261444786"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845921","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":"How \"Clocking in\" Ages Us: An Examination of Work History, Work Quality, and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Older Adulthood.","authors":"Mateo P Farina, Rachel Donnelly, Jessica D Faul","doi":"10.1177/00221465261432569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261432569","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Consistent employment, especially secure, high-wage employment, has well-documented associations with lower risk of later-life morbidity and mortality, and accelerated biological aging may underlie these associations. Although research evaluating employment and accelerated epigenetic aging is growing, questions remain about the implications of chronic work-related exposures for accelerated aging. This study uses longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the 2016 HRS Venous Blood Study (n = 3,000) to evaluate how work-related experiences throughout midlife are associated with accelerated epigenetic aging. Results show that a history of not working for pay and a history of poor work quality (i.e., job insecurity, insufficient work hours, low wages) among workers in midlife are associated with accelerated epigenetic aging in later life. Symptoms of depression and health behaviors partially attenuate these associations. Overall, findings suggest that chronic work-related exposures are critical yet overlooked antecedents of accelerated aging.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465261432569"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147788395","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":"Sleep Tight, Don't Fight? Daily Sleep Quality and Marital Strain in Same- and Different-Sex Marriages in the United States.","authors":"Asya Saydam,Jaime Hsu","doi":"10.1177/00221465261438048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261438048","url":null,"abstract":"Sleep is a critical health behavior that often varies by gender, and most partnered adults sleep with a significant other. Despite growing research on sleep health, little is known about how daily sleep within couples shapes marital dynamics, especially across same- and different-sex relationships. This study uses dyadic diary data from 378 mid- to later-life couples in the United States (N = 756) to examine how respondents' and partners' daily sleep quality are each associated with daily marital strain and whether these associations vary by gender and couple type. Respondent sleep quality predicts lower marital strain for all couple types except for men married to women. Spousal sleep quality is also associated with reduced strain but only for women in different-sex marriages. These women appear uniquely affected by both their own and their partner's sleep, highlighting the importance of dyadic and gender-relational perspectives in understanding links between sleep and relationship dynamics.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"32 1","pages":"221465261438048"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147719630","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":"Self-Esteem, Racial Identity, and Depression in the Long-Term Impact of Discrimination on Health among Black Americans.","authors":"Cerenity E Collins,Man-Kit Lei,Ronald L Simons","doi":"10.1177/00221465261426038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261426038","url":null,"abstract":"Racial discrimination is an important predictor of long-term health outcomes for Black Americans. However, research has not fully examined how the development of psychosocial resources and depressive symptoms throughout the life course impact the long-term relationship between discrimination and physical health. Using data from the Family and Community Health Study (N = 889 for full-information maximum likelihood; n = 520 for listwise deletion), we conducted path modeling to examine whether self-esteem, racial identity, and depressive symptomatology mediate the relationship between racial discrimination in youth and lifetime chronic disease and acute health symptoms for Black Americans. Results indicate significant indirect effects of self-esteem, depressive symptoms, and racial identity on acute health symptoms. Results also show significant indirect effects of self-esteem and depression on lifetime chronic illness. Findings point to the importance of depressive symptomatology and psychosocial resources in shaping the long-term health impacts of youth exposure to racial discrimination.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"61 1","pages":"221465261426038"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147630236","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":"Home Advantage or Hidden Strain? The Mental Health Effects of Working from Home across Gender, Childcare Status, and Occupational Class before and since the Pandemic","authors":"Constance Beaufils, Heejung Chung","doi":"10.1177/00221465261429966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261429966","url":null,"abstract":"Although working from home (WFH) is promoted as a policy supporting work–life balance, whether it benefits mental health remains unclear. Few studies have examined how these effects vary across social groups or addressed selection issues complicating causal inference. We use two-way fixed-effects models to analyze changes in mental health scores, measured with the 12-item General Health Questionnaire, among 39,863 participants in the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009–2023). We reduce selection bias by using an occupation-level WFH measure derived from the UK Labour Force Survey. Before March 2020, increased WFH in men’s occupations improved their mental health. For women, it benefited those in routine jobs but worsened outcomes for professionals. The pattern reversed from March 2020, with WFH positively impacting the mental health of professional women but not that of men or women in routine jobs. These findings highlight the importance of social positions and institutional contexts in shaping the mental health effects of WFH.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147598777","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":"The Mortality Risk of Raising Grandchildren in the United States.","authors":"Hongwei Xu,John R Logan,Todd Gardner","doi":"10.1177/00221465261419804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261419804","url":null,"abstract":"In the United States, grandparents who live with and provide primary care to their grandchildren have emerged as a particularly vulnerable group since the 1990s. Using confidential data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Social Security Administration, this study linked individuals ages 50 years or older from the 2000 census long-form sample to their death records from 2000 to 2019 (weighted N = 64,027,000) and examined the longitudinal association between coresident grandparenting status and mortality for non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, and Asian individuals. We found consistently higher rates of mortality for White coresident grandparents and lower rates for Asian coresident grandparents, regardless of the duration of primary caregiving, compared to their peers without coresident grandchildren. We also found increased risks of mortality among Hispanic long-term primary caregivers but reduced risks among Black short-term primary caregivers compared to their peers without coresident grandchildren.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"45 1","pages":"221465261419804"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147381447","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":"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":"86-103"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12936151/pdf/","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":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pathways to Autonomy: Chinese Physicians' Responses to Clinical Pathways amid Institutional Complexity.","authors":"Lei Jin, Lin Tao","doi":"10.1177/00221465261419783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261419783","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Professionals increasingly encounter tools aimed at rationalizing and standardizing their work. Existing research largely conceptualizes their responses to these tools on a continuum from professional resistance to managerial control. But the institutional logics perspective and emerging empirical evidence suggest more varied responses and diverse, possibly non-zero-sum, outcomes. Using survey data from 1,116 physicians in China's public hospitals, we systematically examined physicians' reactions to pathway implementation and the impacts on clinical autonomy and job satisfaction. Cluster analysis identified four response types: (a) ignoring, where physicians avoided pathways and maintained autonomy; (b) coerced, where imposed pathways reduced autonomy and satisfaction; (c) decoupling, where pathways were adopted superficially, preserving autonomy; and (d) embracing, where physicians actively participated in pathway implementation and enforcement, experiencing high satisfaction and autonomy. The findings help broaden the conceptualization of professionals' reactions to rationalizing tools, uncover multiple pathways to clinical autonomy, and illustrate how professionals navigate institutional complexity in ever-evolving environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465261419783"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147312315","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":"The Political Economy of Health Care: State Policy Liberalism and the Distribution and Diversity of the U.S. Health Care Workforce, 1960–2019","authors":"Rebecca Anna Schut","doi":"10.1177/00221465261416495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261416495","url":null,"abstract":"A burgeoning literature links state policies to health care access/use, yet little research has explored whether state policies relate to the distribution of health care itself. Drawing on census microdata and state policy data from 1960 to 2019, I investigate whether state policy liberalism shapes workforce availability and diversity. First, I find that states in New England and the Middle Atlantic have persistently benefited from larger workforces compared to those in the East South Central and Pacific, with Black and foreign-born workers disproportionately represented in “workforce disadvantaged” states. Second, I show that an increase in policy liberalism is associated with reductions in states’ total health care, physician, and nursing workforces; Black and foreign-born physician and nursing workforces; and foreign-born medical assistant/health aide workforces. Taking a political economy approach toward understanding the (mal)distribution of U.S. health care sheds light on a “two-tiered” system that both reflects and reifies existing geographic inequities in population health.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146205212","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}
Kate W. Strully, Tse-Chuan Yang, Chunxu Fang, Han Liu
{"title":"Low-Density Zoning and Health Disparities in Metro Areas","authors":"Kate W. Strully, Tse-Chuan Yang, Chunxu Fang, Han Liu","doi":"10.1177/00221465261417175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261417175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146153353","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}