Marital Life Course Events and Smoking Behaviour in Sweden 1980 - 2000  

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Nystedt, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 6 (Mar. 2006), page 1427-1442.
Topik: smoking; sweden; smoking; amrital life course; gender; stress

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The protective effect of marriage on smoking has been extensively in the literature. However less is known about the dynamics of how smoking behaviour is connected to various marital life course events, and whether there are any gender discrepancies int his respect. In this article the connection between the marital life course and smoking is analysed from a stress related perspective controlling for other socio economic characteristics. We use inforamtion on 81,000 individuals from the swedish longitudinal micro level ULF (survey of living conditions, database 1980 - 2000), which is randomly drawn fromt he sample population of all swedes aged 16 - 84. Logistic regressions on current smoking status and changes in smoking behaviour of participants in the panel part of the data are estimated. The amrital life course is strongly linked to smoking behaviour with being or getting married indicating low smoking risks and marital disruption indicating high risks. The divorced smoke to a higher extent than the widowed and there are signs that getting divorced implies higher risks than becoming widowed, both of taking up / relapsing and for women, not being able to quit. Further, the results indicate that the connection between smoking cessation and living with a partner is stronger for men, whereas women are more affected by the propensity to start smoking after amrital disruption. The protective effect of being married on smoking decreases with the age difference between spouses in households where the wife is older than the husband. Taken together, the results yield a rather complex pattern of smoking baheviour over the marital life course. Further, perceived financial stress is strongly conencted to smoking and not being able to quit. Controlling for this effect still leaves a socio economic status gradient in smoking.

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