Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, 1515 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA.
Department of Sociology, Utah State University, Old Main 224E, Logan, UT, 84322, USA.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2019 Aug;6(4):861-867. doi: 10.1007/s40615-019-00585-w. Epub 2019 Apr 1.
The purpose of this study was to assess the utility of the life course framework concept of "linked lives" for examining the effects of partner stress on self-rated health among older adult populations.
Data were derived from a partner-dyad study of Miami-Dade County residents and their significant others. We limited our analysis to respondents ages 60 or older (n = 409).
Regression analyses revealed that greater levels of personally experienced major life events were associated with worse self-rated health. However, the association between a significant other's stress exposure and one's own self-rated health was only statistically significant among Black respondents.
Extending prior study indicating that Black Americans tend to have worse self-rated health later in life relative to other racial groups, these findings demonstrate the utility of the linked lives concept for furthering an understanding of racial disparities in health based upon loved ones' stressful experiences.
本研究旨在评估“关联生活”这一生命历程框架概念在考察老年人群体中伴侣压力对自我健康评估的影响方面的效用。
数据来自迈阿密-戴德县居民及其重要他人的伴侣对研究。我们将分析仅限于年龄在 60 岁或以上的受访者（n=409）。
回归分析显示，个人经历的重大生活事件越多，自我健康评估越差。然而，在黑人受访者中，只有当重要他人的压力暴露与自己的自我健康评估相关时，这种关联才具有统计学意义。
这些发现扩展了先前的研究，表明与其他种族群体相比，美国黑人在晚年的自我健康评估往往较差，这些发现表明，关联生活概念对于基于亲人的压力经历进一步理解健康方面的种族差异具有效用。
