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Divorce and health: good data in need of better theory
- Source :
- Current Opinion in Psychology. 13:91-95
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- A very large literature links the experiences of marital separation and divorce to risk for a range of poor distal health outcomes, including early death. What is far less clear, however, is the mechanistic pathways that convey this risk. Several plausible mechanisms are identified in the literature, and the central thesis of this paper is that the empirical study of divorce and health will benefit enormously from a renewed reliance on theory to dictate how these mechanisms of action may unfold over time. This review emphasizes the roles of attachment and social baseline theories in making specific mechanistic predictions and highlights the ways in which these perspectives can contribute new empirical knowledge on risk and resilience following marital dissolution.
- Subjects :
- 05 social sciences
050109 social psychology
Marital separation
Early death
Health outcomes
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
Empirical research
Action (philosophy)
Risk and resilience
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Baseline (configuration management)
Empirical evidence
Psychology
General Psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 2352250X
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Opinion in Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1df8e58bd1a61979262000303a70948f