Tucker J S, Friedman H S, Wingard D L, Schwartz J E
Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254-9110, USA.
Health Psychol. 1996 Mar;15(2):94-101. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.15.2.94.
The association between marital history at midlife (in 1950) and mortality (as of 1991) was studied in a group of intelligent, educated men and women (N = 1,077) who participated in the Terman Life-Cycle Study initiated by Lewis Terman in 1921. Results confirm that consistently married people live longer than those who have experienced marital breakup but suggest that this is not necessarily due to the protective effects of marriage itself. Individuals who were currently married, but had previously experienced a divorce, were at significantly higher mortality risk compared with consistently married individuals. Furthermore, individuals who had not married by midlife were not at higher mortality risk compared with consistently married individuals. Part of the relationship between marital history and mortality risk may be explained by childhood psychosocial variables, which were associated with both future marital history and mortality risk.
对一组聪明且受过教育的男性和女性（N = 1077）进行了研究，探讨中年时期（1950年）的婚姻史与死亡率（截至1991年）之间的关联。这些人参与了刘易斯·特尔曼于1921年发起的特尔曼生命周期研究。结果证实，持续婚姻状态的人比经历过婚姻破裂的人寿命更长，但这不一定是由于婚姻本身的保护作用。当前已婚但之前经历过离婚的个体，与持续婚姻状态的个体相比，死亡风险显著更高。此外，中年时仍未结婚的个体与持续婚姻状态的个体相比，死亡风险并未更高。婚姻史与死亡风险之间的部分关系可能由童年心理社会变量来解释，这些变量与未来的婚姻史和死亡风险均相关。
