Health and Well-being Effects on Later-life Divorce and Subsequent Repartnering

健康和福祉对晚年离婚和随后重新伴侣的影响

基本信息

批准号：
8687864
负责人：
SUSAN L. BROWN
金额：
$ 41.7万
依托单位：
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2014-08-01 至 2018-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The gray divorce rate has doubled in the past two decades, rising from 5 to 10 divorces per 1,000 married population ages 50 and older. More than 1 in 4 people who divorced in 2010 were ages 50+ compared with less than 1 in 10 in 1990. The recent rise in gray divorce coupled with the aging of the population foregrounds the urgency of investigating the life course factors associated with divorce during older adulthood and the ramifications for individual well-being. It also raises new questions about what happens after a gray divorce: how common is re-partnering, whether through cohabitation or remarriage, and to what extent does re-partnering ameliorate any negative effects of divorce on individual well-being? Although gray divorce is accelerating, social scientists lack a basic understanding of divorce and re-partnering that occur during later life. We use prospective, longitudinal data from the 1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study to begin to fill this critical gap. We estimate discrete time event history models to assess the life course factors (e.g., empty nest, retirement, and poor health) that are associated with gray divorce and subsequent re=partnering. And, we use latent growth models to investigate how gray divorce is linked to trajectories in health and economic well-being, as well as the extent to which re-partnering offers appreciable gains in well-being. Throughout the project, we assess variation by gender, marriage order, and cohort. The implications of gray divorce are substantial, shaping not only the couple but also the well-being of family members, such as children and grandchildren, and the demands placed on broader institutional support systems designed for older adults and their families. Society at large will need to respond to the shifting (and potentially diminishing) family resources and supports that are available to older adults. As such, this project aligns with the research priorities of the NIA described in its strategic plan for research on aging in the 21st century. Ths project fully incorporates two undergraduate and one graduate research assistant to expose students to all stages of the research process and enhance the BGSU research environment.

描述（由申请人提供）：灰色离婚率在过去二十年中翻了一番，从每 1,000 名 50 岁及以上已婚人口中有 5 人离婚上升到 10 人离婚。 2010 年，超过四分之一的离婚者年龄在 50 岁以上，而 1990 年这一比例还不到十分之一。近期灰色离婚的增加以及人口老龄化，凸显了调查离婚期间与离婚相关的生命历程因素的紧迫性。老年期及其对个人福祉的影响。它还提出了关于灰色离婚后会发生什么的新问题：无论是同居还是再婚，重新合作的情况有多常见，以及重新合作在多大程度上改善了离婚对个人福祉的负面影响？尽管灰色离婚正在加速，但社会科学家对晚年发生的离婚和重新伴侣缺乏基本的了解。我们使用 1992-2010 年健康与退休研究的前瞻性纵向数据来开始填补这一关键空白。我们估计离散时间事件历史模型，以评估与灰色离婚和随后的重新合作相关的生命历程因素（例如，空巢、退休和健康状况不佳）。而且，我们使用潜在增长模型来研究灰色离婚与健康和经济福祉轨迹之间的关系，以及重新合作在多大程度上带来了福祉的显着收益。在整个项目中，我们评估了性别、婚姻顺序和队列的变化。灰色离婚的影响是巨大的，不仅影响夫妻双方，还影响子孙等家庭成员的福祉，以及对为老年人及其家庭设计的更广泛的机构支持系统的要求。整个社会需要对老年人可获得的家庭资源和支持的变化（以及可能减少）做出反应。因此，该项目符合 NIA 在 21 世纪老龄化研究战略计划中描述的研究重点。该项目充分吸收了两名本科生和一名研究生研究助理，让学生接触研究过程的各个阶段，并改善 BGSU 的研究环境。