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Title: Marital Transitions and Weight Changes
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Tumin, Dmitry Qian, Zhenchao |
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Marital Transitions and Weight Changes Presented: Las Vegas NV, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2011 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Divorce; Gender Differences; Marital Dissolution; Marriage; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Marital transitions cause changes in diet and activity patterns that affect weight. Previous studies show that marriage is linked to weight gain, while marital exit is linked to weight loss. But it is uncertain whether the weight changes that follow marital transitions are significant enough to affect health. Applying marital resource and crisis models, we explore weight changes that predict an increased risk of all-cause mortality in the epidemiological literature. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth ’79, we test whether recent marriages and marital exits affect the odds of experiencing mortality-linked weight changes and explore how sex and age at marital transition is associated with weight changes. We find marriage predicts large weight gain: large gains are more likely for newly married women than men, and more likely for those who married early than those who married later, but level off over time. Marital exits, on the other hand, do not predict weight loss, especially for those who divorce at later ages. We conclude that any marriage transition is, typically, not enough of a shock to lifestyle to elicit large and repeated weight gains. |
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Tumin, Dmitry and Zhenchao Qian. "Marital Transitions and Weight Changes." Presented: Las Vegas NV, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2011. |