Publications

Here are a few of our recent publications. Click on each title to get access to the PDF file.

Parents, Adult Children, and Immortality

As we live longer, most of us maintain relationships with our parents into middle age and beyond. How do these connections affect our health and well-being?

You Make Me Sick: Marital Quality and Health over the Life Course

We present evidence from a national longitudinal survey to show that marital strain accelerates the typical decline in self-rated health that occurs over time. We suspect that marital strain has a cumulative effect on health over time - an effect that produces increasing vulnerability to marital strain with age. Contrary to expectations, marital quality affects the health of men and women in similar ways.

Stress and Health Behavior Over the Life Course

This chapter emphasizes the importance of merging stress and life course perspectives to elaborate on the impact of stress on health behavior. Stress may lead to coping responses that involve health behaviors (for example, smoking, drinking or eating excessively) and the impact of stress on health behavior may vary as individuals age. We develop a theoretically-driven model to guide research on stress and health behavior, and present national data to test some of the theoretical premises.

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