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标题：Effect of marital status on duration of treatment for mental illness
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作者：Zheng Wu ; Christoph M. Schimmele ; Margaret J. Penning 等
期刊名称：Canadian Studies in Population
印刷版ISSN：1927-629X
出版年度：2012
卷号：39
期号：1-2
页码：109-124
语种：English
出版社：Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta
摘要：There is a well-established link between marital status and mental health, but previous research has produced mixed results about the reasons for this relationship. Some studies propose that marriage provides protection from stressors and increases personal coping abilities (the causation perspective), whereas other studies argue that marriage markets “weed out” individuals predisposed to illness (the selection perspective). This article addresses the causation-versus-selection debate by examining the effect of marital status on duration of treatment for mental illness. The empirical analysis uses longitudinal data and GEE models to estimate group-level differences in duration of treatment. The results suggest that marriage does not appear to confer a health advantage in terms of duration of treatment. However, the study demonstrates that the never-married experience longer treatment time than the married, divorced, and widowed.
关键词：mental illness ;mental health ;marital status ;social causation ;social selection