{"id":321,"date":"2017-10-30T17:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/?p=321"},"modified":"2018-01-12T14:20:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:20:57","slug":"to-sickness-or-to-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/2017\/10\/30\/to-sickness-or-to-health\/","title":{"rendered":"To Sickness or to Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an old saying that people who are married, tend to live longer.\u00a0 According to the authors of the Longevity book, this may be truer for men than for women.\u00a0The book mentions several factors why being married might lead to longer life although they acknowledge that if the marriage is not happy or is filled with stress, this might backfire.\u00a0The book also mentions that two of the life events which are considered most stressful are death of a spouse and secondly, divorce.\u00a0 If one never gets married then neither of these stressful events will occur in your lift.\u00a0 But does that mean one shouldn\u2019t get married?<\/p>\n<p>The chapter breaks the participants into 4 categories: Remarried (having previously been divorced); Steadily married; divorced; steadily single. The difference in these groups for men vs women is interesting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For men (longest longevity to shortest):\u00a0 steady married; remarried; steadily single; divorced.<\/li>\n<li>For women- steady married; divorced; steadily single; remarried.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Staying married for all your adult life leads to the longest life for both men and women.\u00a0 But while getting remarried is positive for men, it is not necessarily for women. Interesting.\u00a0 Also, they found that the husband\u2019s marital happiness mattered most &#8211; \u00a0for longevity of both men and women.<\/p>\n<p>A few other trends to note are that the Terman participants tended to stay married or divorce more often based on what they experienced growing up.\u00a0 Also, the personality of the child had a lot to do with who stayed married.\u00a0 For instance, conscientious children tended to stay married.<\/p>\n<p>Would all this be true in today\u2019s society?\u00a0 I have the sense that in the time of the Terman study, women were more dominated by their husband.\u00a0 More women stayed home and took care of the children and their happiness was more dependent on how the family was functioning and if the husband wasn\u2019t happy at work or at home, it had a great influence on the family.\u00a0 As the book points out, because this is a long-term study, it is bound to be somewhat outdated by the time the results are analyzed but trends are still worth looking at.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an old saying that people who are married, tend to live longer.\u00a0 According to the authors of the Longevity book, this may be truer for men than for women.\u00a0The book mentions several factors why being married might lead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/2017\/10\/30\/to-sickness-or-to-health\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40548,59091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-9","category-fall-2017"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}