Health Status and Transitions in Cohabiting Relationships of American Young Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examines whether individual health predicts cohabitors' union transitions to marriage in American young adults.

Background

Associations between health and subsequent marital transitions are well documented, but less is known about how health influences transitions of cohabiting relationships. As cohabitation has become a common relationship experience, understanding how health may influence cohabitors' union transitions is an important component of how health shapes relationship exposures more broadly.

Method

Data were taken from Waves III and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth), including the supplemental collection of relationship partners conducted during Wave III. Comp

SUBMITTER: Wagner B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6879179 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature