title: Socioeconomic status, marital status continuity and change, marital conflict, and mortality.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors investigated (a) whether being continuously married compared with other marital status trajectories over 5 years attenuates the adverse effects of lower education and lower income on longevity, (b) whether being in higher conflict as well as lower conflict marriage compared with being single provides a buffer against socioeconomic status inequalities in mortality, and (c) whether the conditional effects of marital factors on the SES-mortality association vary by gender.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors estimated logistic regression models with data from adults aged 30 or above who participated in the National Survey of Families and Households 1987- 2002.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Being continuously married, compared with being continuously never married or making a transition to separation/divorce, buffered mortality risks among men with low income. Mortality risk for low-income men was also lower in higher conflict marriages compared with being never married or previously married.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Marriage ameliorates mortality risks for some low-income men.
authors.affiliation: Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University Altoona, Altoona, PA 16601, USA. huc12@psu.edu
authors.forename: Heejeong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Nadine F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Marks
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008390:Markov Chains; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012923:Social Class; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014481:United States