Rushing B, Ritter C, Burton R P
Department of Sociology, Kent State University, OH 44242.
J Health Soc Behav. 1992 Jun;33(2):126-39.
This paper examines race differences in the effects of social roles on physical health. Using data from the older men cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience, we examine the impact of employment, marriage, and being a supporter on health limitations and mortality. Employment has the most consistent health-protective effect, and the benefits of employment are more pronounced for Blacks than for Whites. Marriage affects health in conjunction with employment. These findings lend further support to the growing literature on the effects of roles on health. The results further illustrate the importance of ascribed statuses as structural determinants of the relationship between roles and health, highlighting the very real differences in the meanings and expectations of social roles for Blacks and Whites.
本文考察了社会角色对身体健康影响方面的种族差异。利用全国劳动力市场经验纵向调查中老年男性队列的数据，我们研究了就业、婚姻以及作为支持者对健康限制和死亡率的影响。就业具有最一致的健康保护作用，而且就业对黑人的益处比对白人更显著。婚姻与就业共同影响健康。这些发现进一步支持了关于角色对健康影响的日益增多的文献。结果进一步说明了归属地位作为角色与健康关系的结构决定因素的重要性，凸显了黑人和白人在社会角色的意义和期望方面非常现实的差异。
