{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Adena M"],"funding":["Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft","Narodowe Centrum Nauki","IZA Bonn"],"pagination":["813-838"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9851896"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["24(2)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, 2004-17) and time diaries from Poland (2013), the U.S. (2006-16), the U.K. (2014-15) and France (2009-10), we examine differences between widowed and partnered older women in well-being and its development in widowhood. Most importantly, our analysis accounts for time use, an aspect which has not been studied previously. We trace the evolution of well-being of women who become widowed by comparing them with their matched non-widowed 'statistical twins' and examine the role of an exceptionally broad set of potential moderators of widowhood's impact on well-being. We confirm a dramatic decrease in mental health and life satisfaction after the loss of partner, followed by a slow partial recovery over a 5-year period. An extensive set of controls recorded prior to widowhood, including detailed family ties and social networks, provides little help in explaining the deterioration in well-being. Unique data from time-diaries kept by older women in several European countries and the U.S. tell us why: the key factor behind widows' reduced well-being is increased time spent alone.<h4>Supplementary information</h4>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10902-023-00622-w."],"journal":["Journal of happiness studies"],"pubmed_title":["Home Alone: Widows' Well-Being and Time."],"pmcid":["PMC9851896"],"funding_grant_id":["project: 280092119","CRC TRR 190","2018/29/B/HS4/00559"],"pubmed_authors":["Oczkowska M","Hamermesh D","Myck M","Adena M"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Home Alone: Widows' Well-Being and Time.","description":"Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, 2004-17) and time diaries from Poland (2013), the U.S. (2006-16), the U.K. (2014-15) and France (2009-10), we examine differences between widowed and partnered older women in well-being and its development in widowhood. Most importantly, our analysis accounts for time use, an aspect which has not been studied previously. We trace the evolution of well-being of women who become widowed by comparing them with their matched non-widowed 'statistical twins' and examine the role of an exceptionally broad set of potential moderators of widowhood's impact on well-being. We confirm a dramatic decrease in mental health and life satisfaction after the loss of partner, followed by a slow partial recovery over a 5-year period. An extensive set of controls recorded prior to widowhood, including detailed family ties and social networks, provides little help in explaining the deterioration in well-being. Unique data from time-diaries kept by older women in several European countries and the U.S. tell us why: the key factor behind widows' reduced well-being is increased time spent alone.<h4>Supplementary information</h4>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10902-023-00622-w.","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023","modification":"2025-04-22T08:48:16.631Z","creation":"2025-04-05T22:41:17.611Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9851896","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36694477"],"doi":["10.1007/s10902-023-00622-w"]}}