"In Sickness and in Health" : Does Cohabitation Count ?  

Oleh:

Penning, Margaret J. ; Pollard, Michael S. ; Hart, Randy ; Wu, Zheng

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Family Issues vol. 24 no. 6 (Sep. 2003), page 811-838.
Topik: cohabitation; cohabitation; union status; health
Fulltext: 811.pdf (145.88KB)

Isi artikel

Using data from the 1994 - 95 (Canadian) National Population Health Survey (6,494 women, 5,368 men), we investigated the impact of cohabitation on a range of physical and mental health indicators, controlling for self - selection into cohabitation and other relevant factors. Uncontrolled results indicate that the physical and mental health of cohabitors tends to fall between that of the married and the divorced / separated, widowed, and single / never married. However, when other factors are controlled, health differences between cohabitors and the currently married become nonsignificant. Self - selection, into cohabitation and into marriage, initially appears to play a significant role in accounting for variations in health, but with controls added to the models, selection mostly becomes nonsignificant. We concluded that self - selection at most may explain a small proportion of the variation in health but that protection effects are more likely to explain the positive health advantages of marriage and cohabitation.

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