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Direct linkCoverdill, James E.; Lopez, Carlos A.; Petrie, Michelle A. – Social Forces, 2011
We extend research on black-white gaps in the subjective quality of life by exploring recent General Social Survey data, focusing attention on Latinos, and probing the value of partial proportional odds models for ordinal quality-of-life measures. Results indicate a declining but discernable black-white gap for four measures--marital happiness,…
Descriptors: Health, Quality of Life, Marriage Counseling, Psychological Patterns
Agadjanian, Victor; Arnaldo, Carlos; Cau, Boaventura – Social Forces, 2011
The study employs survey data from rural Mozambique to examine how men's labor migration affects their non-migrating wives' perceptions of HIV/AIDS risks. Using a conceptual framework centered on tradeoffs between economic security and health risks that men's migration entails for their left-behind wives, it compares women married to migrants and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Spouses, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Labor
Treas, Judith; van der Lippe, Tanja; Tai, Tsui-o Chloe – Social Forces, 2011
A long-standing debate questions whether homemakers or working wives are happier. Drawing on cross-national data for 28 countries, this research uses multi-level models to provide fresh evidence on this controversy. All things considered, homemakers are slightly happier than wives who work fulltime, but they have no advantage over part-time…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Spouses, Marital Status, Homemakers
Uecker, Jeremy E.; Regnerus, Mark D.; Vaaler, Margaret L. – Social Forces, 2007
Many Americans exhibit declining religiosity during early adulthood. There is no consensus about why this occurs, though longstanding assumptions suggest the secularizing effects of higher education, normative deviance and life course factors. We evaluate these effects on decreasing frequency of religious practice, diminished importance of…
Descriptors: Religion, Young Adults, Social Influences, Higher Education
Hawkins, Daniel N.; Booth, Alan – Social Forces, 2005
The present study shows that long-term, low-quality marriages have significant negative effects on overall well-being. We utilize a nationally representative longitudinal study with a multi-item marital quality scale that allows us to track unhappy marriages over a 12-year period and to assess marital happiness along many dimensions. Remaining…
Descriptors: Marriage, Marital Satisfaction, Divorce, Life Satisfaction
Hopcroft, Rosemary L.; Bradley, Dana Burr – Social Forces, 2007
The sex difference in depression is well documented in westernized, developed societies, although there has been little quantitative cross-cultural research on the topic. In this study, we use multilevel logit models to examine sex differences in depression across 29 countries using data from the World Values Survey. We find that in no country are…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Depression (Psychology), Gender Differences, Psychological Patterns
