Later‐life marital dissolution increasingly occurs through divorce, not widowhood, and this is reflected in the rising rate of divorce among older adults and gains in life expectancy. Yet the consequences of later‐life divorce for individual well‐being are poorly understood. Prior work on later‐life marital dissolution focuses on bereavement, positing either a short‐term, acute grief period or chronic, unrelenting grief. The divorce literature offers an analogous bifurcated explanation in the stress‐adjustment perspective on divorce. Adjustment either occurs during a brief crisis period or is elusive as divorce creates chronic strain. After describing these entrenched conceptual models of postdissolution adjustment, we introduce a third trajectory that is emergent in recent, longitudinal studies: the convalescence model. Drawing on Pearlin's stress process perspective, we theorize why spousal loss and divorce alike may result in a protracted period of recovery. We conclude with directions for future research to encourage conceptual and methodological advancements in the field.

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成年人离婚后遗症和丧偶的后果：对恢复模型的呼唤

晚婚的婚姻解散越来越多地通过离婚而不是丧偶来实现，这反映在老年人离婚率的提高和预期寿命的增加上。然而，离婚对个人福祉的影响知之甚少。先前关于晚年婚姻解散的工作主要集中在丧亲上，假定是短期的，急性的悲伤期或长期的，无情的悲伤。离婚文献从离婚压力调整的角度提供了类似的分歧解释。调整要么发生在短暂的危机时期，要么因离婚而造成慢性压力而难以捉摸。在描述了这些根深蒂固的溶出后调整的概念模型之后，我们介绍了最近的纵向研究中出现的第三条轨迹：康复模型。在Pearlin上绘画 从压力过程的角度来看，我们推论了为什么失去配偶和离婚都可能导致恢复期延长的原因。我们以未来研究的方向作为总结，以鼓励该领域在概念和方法上的进步。