Williams Beverly Rosa, Sawyer Patricia, Allman Richard M
The Birmingham/Atlanta VA Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA.
J Women Aging. 2012;24(2):126-39. doi: 10.1080/08952841.2012.639660.
We examine how the passage of time since spousal loss varies by social and demographic characteristics, using data from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging. In multivariate analyses, African American race, female sex, lower income, and higher risk of social isolation had significant and independent associations with variation in time since spousal loss. African American women were at highest risk for long-term widowhood. Accurate characterizations of widowhood among community-dwelling older adults must consider variation in the length of time individuals are living as widowed persons and socioeconomic concomitants of long-term widowhood.
我们利用阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校衰老研究的数据，研究了配偶丧亡后的时间间隔如何因社会和人口特征而有所不同。在多变量分析中，非裔美国人种族、女性性别、低收入以及社会孤立风险较高与配偶丧亡后的时间间隔变化存在显著且独立的关联。非裔美国女性长期守寡的风险最高。对社区居住的老年人中丧偶情况的准确描述必须考虑个体作为丧偶者生活的时间长度差异以及长期丧偶的社会经济伴随因素。
