Marital dissolution and self-rated health: Age trajectories and birth cohort variations

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1107-1116

  Liu, Hui ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Birth cohort; Divorce; Growth curve analysis; Marital transitions; Self rated health; U.S.A.; Widowhood

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIVORCE; GROWTH CURVE; HEALTH STATUS; MARRIAGE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WIDOW;

AGE FACTORS; DIVORCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WIDOWHOOD;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862789888     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.11.037     Document Type: Article

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