The effect of age on happiness, as defined by positive and negative affect, was examined in a survey of 2,727 persons of a broad age range (25-74) conducted by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development. The age-affect association was examined, controlling for a host of sociodemographic, personality, and contextual influences. Among women, age was related to pos...

In this study relationships between divorce and trust variables were examined. Specifically, marital status (married, divorced) was compared against degree of trust in government, technology, romantic relationships, family, and school. The study showed statistical significance (p < .05) in terms of the relationship between marital status and romantic relationships. However, no other outcomes we...

This paper uses a microlevel data set from 49 countries to create a direct measure of corruption, which portrays the extent of bribery as revealed by individuals who live in those countries. In addition, it investigates the determinants of being asked for a bribe at the individual level. The results show that both personal and country characteristics determine the risk of exposure to bribery. E...

Different data sources were used to examine hypothesized relations among neighborhood-, family-, and individual-level variables, and perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy. Data were from 1,105 individuals (56% female, 42% African American, and 58% White) nested within 55 neighborhoods and 392 families, analyzed within a multilevel design using a 3-level model. At the neighborhood leve...

Recent trends in marriage, divorce and redivorce, and remarriage were gleaned from cohort data from the US Supplement to the Current Population Survey, 1990, on the frequency of women entering and exiting a verity of marital statuses. Marriage patterns are described also in terms of their interrelationship with educational attainment, fertility history, age, race and Hispanic origin, age at ma...

BACKGROUND Health benefits of marriage have long been recognised and extensively studied but previous research has yielded inconsistent results for older people, particularly older women. At older ages accumulated benefits or disadvantages of past marital experience, as well as current marital status, may be relevant, but fewer studies have considered effects of marital history. Possible effect...

The authors analyze the distribution of suicides according to the variables of sex, age and marital status in the Canary Islands, during the period 1977-1983, by means of a register that they themselves created in order to correct serious deficiencies in the official data. There were notable differences between men and women, and the tendencies observed in each case are also very different. The...

A multicentre face-to-face interview was conducted to identify factors contributing to the marital status of people with epilepsy (PWE) in Korea. The marriage rate of PWEs was only 80% and the divorce rate was more than double that in the general population. Among the single subjects, 34% replied that they were unmarried because of epilepsy, and 76% of divorced PWEs replied that epilepsy was th...

background: type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the most important cardiovascular risk factors. objectives: this study was performed to assess the relationship of diabetes with gender, education, and marital status in an iranian urban population. methods: a total of 892 men and women aged 30-85 were recruited using a cluster-stratified sampling method from an urban population. using a questionna...

background: the age of menopause has not changed in past centuries; however the life span has gradually increased. today's women spend one third of their life time after menopause. this study investigates quality of life after the menopause and its relation to marital status. methods: a descriptive study was conducted. the sample consisted of 384 post-menopausal women in isfahan in 2006. data w...