Rote Sunshine
1 University of Louisville, KY, USA.
J Aging Health. 2017 Jun;29(4):688-707. doi: 10.1177/0898264316641084. Epub 2016 Apr 13.
This study examines the link between marital disruption and biological risk, and asks whether the association of this precarious life event with health is contingent on marital loss duration and history.
Data are drawn from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project ( N = 1,414), and Poisson regressions are presented for allostatic load and logistic regressions for individual biomarkers.
The currently unmarried with more distant marital disruptions exhibit higher levels of allostatic load than the currently married, which is primarily driven by dysregulation of cardiovascular and metabolic indicators. Results also reveal the differing ways marital disruption "gets under the skin" with widowhood associated with compromised inflammatory, metabolic, and cardiovascular functioning, and divorce with cardiovascular and neuroendocrine markers.
Findings lend support for both the crisis and chronic strain models, and likely reflect normative expectations of the timing of life events, decrements in marital resources, and selection processes.
本研究探讨婚姻破裂与生物风险之间的联系，并询问这一不稳定生活事件与健康之间的关联是否取决于婚姻丧失持续时间和经历。
数据取自全国社会生活、健康与老龄化项目（N = 1414），针对压力负荷进行泊松回归分析，针对个体生物标志物进行逻辑回归分析。
目前未婚且婚姻破裂时间更远的人群比目前已婚人群表现出更高水平的压力负荷，这主要由心血管和代谢指标失调所致。结果还揭示了婚姻破裂“影响身体”的不同方式，丧偶与炎症、代谢和心血管功能受损相关，离婚与心血管和神经内分泌标志物相关。
研究结果支持危机模型和慢性压力模型，可能反映了对生活事件时机、婚姻资源减少和选择过程的规范期望。
