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Nuestro objetivo es analizar el apoyo recibido de la ex pareja en una población de progenitores divorciados españoles. Los datos del presente estudio corresponden a 223 progenitores, 130 madres y 93 padres, procedentes de quince comunidades del estado. Madres y padres, progenitores custodios y no custodios, dicen recibir niveles similares de apoyo de sus ex…

The authors investigated the health consequences of marital separation and whether the partners who initiated the separation had better health than those who did not. The data came from the Households, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) panel study (2001-2007), comprising an analytic sample of 1,786 men and 2,068 women who were in their…

Objective: Estimate predictive associations of mental disorders with marriage and divorce in a cross-national sample. Method: Population surveys of mental disorders included assessment of age at first marriage in 19 countries (n = 46 128) and age at first divorce in a subset of 12 countries (n = 30 729). Associations between mental diso

Divorce is a relatively common stressful life event that is purported to increase risk for all-cause mortality. One problem in the literature on divorce and health is that it is fragmented and spread across many disciplines; most prospective studies of mortality are based in epidemiology and sociology, whereas most mechanistic studies are based in psychology.…

This study used a large, nationally representative sample to examine the gender-specific association between parental divorce and the cumulative lifetime incidence of suicidal ideation. Known risk factors for suicidal ideation, such as childhood stressors, socioeconomic factors, adult health behaviors and stressors, marital status, and any history of mood and/or anxiety …

Research studies using measures of social stratification based on the three core dimensions of socioeconomic status, namely, level of education, occupational status and income, social health inequalities are being increasingly explored through the life-course epidemiological approach. Adverse life events or circumstances can constitute pathways between social conditions …

This meta-analysis focuses on the efficacy of interventions for adults facing separation or divorce designed to help them through the process of divorce. In this meta-analysis we investigate the nature of these programmes and their influence on reduction of divorce-related symptoms. Using a heterogeneous data-set (amount of variance explained by sampling error 58.68%

The study of marital dissolution (i.e. divorce and separation) and mortality has long been a major topic of interest for social scientists. We conducted meta-analyses and meta-regressions on 625 mortality risk estimates from 104 studies, published between 1955 and 2011, covering 24 countries, and providing data on more than 600 million persons. The mean hazard…

Social risk factors are increasingly recognized as important determinants of health status in childhood and through the life course. Low social class origins have long been recognized for their association with suboptimal health and longevity (Luo and Waite 2005; Turrell et al. 2007). A growing body of life course research is beginning to explain how…

In the past 50 years, research on divorce has grown exponentially. A search of the database PsychInfo from 1962 to the present using the search term “divorc*” returned a total of 14,955 citations.1 A graph of this growth by decade is depicted in Figure?1, indicating an average of 514 citations per year over the last…