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Title: Interpartner Health Links From a Dyadic Perspective: A Comparison of Different-Sex Married, Different-Sex Cohabiting, and Same-Sex Couples in the National Health Interview Survey

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: The current study used dyadic data to compare self-reported health concordance among different-sex married, different-sex cohabiting and same-sex unions. Data were pooled from the National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2017. A total of 441,528 couples were identified (394,199 different-sex marriages, 43,556 different-sex cohabiting unions and 3,773 same-sex partnerships). Results from the actor-partner interdependence models showed significant difference in health concordance by union types. Consistent with the theoretical expectations, same-sex and different-sex cohabiting unions showed significantly weaker interpartner health concordance than different-sex marriages, but this difference primarily existed among men. There was no significant difference in health concordance between women in different-sex marriages and those in lesbian unions while women in different-sex cohabiting unions showed a stronger health concordance than their counterparts in different-sex marriages. Findings from this study challenge the heteronormative assumption of gender role specialization underpinning the relationship between heterosexual marriages and health.

Url: http://paa2019.populationassociation.org/abstracts/193686

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Authors: Yu, Yan-Liang

Conference Name: PAA 2019

Publisher Location: Austin, TX

Data Collections: IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS

Topics: Health, Other

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