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Racializing Motherhood and Maternity Care in News Representations of Breastfeeding Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Shannon K. Carter, Sanya Bansal
Racial inequalities in breastfeeding have been a U.S. national concern, prompting health science research and public discourse. Social science research reveals structural causes, including racism in labor conditions, maternity care practices, and lactation support. Yet research shows that popular and health science discourses disproportionately focus on individual and community factors, blaming Black
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Cumulative Disadvantage or Strained Advantage? Remote Schooling, Paid Work Status, and Parental Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Mieke Beth Thomeer, Mia Brantley, Rin Reczek
During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents experienced difficulties around employment and children’s schooling, likely with detrimental mental health implications. We analyze National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data (N = 2,829) to estimate depressive symptom changes from 2019 to 2021 by paid work status and children’s schooling modality, considering partnership status, gender, and race-ethnicity
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Extending Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants: Comparing Perinatal Outcomes Following This Policy Shift Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Margot Moinester, Kaitlyn K. Stanhope
Research shows that restrictive immigration policies and practices are associated with poor health, but far less is known about the relationship between inclusive immigration policies and health. Using data from the United States natality files, we estimate associations between state laws granting undocumented immigrants access to driver’s licenses and perinatal outcomes among 4,047,067 singleton births
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Analyzing the Impact of Family Structure Changes on Children’s Stress Levels Using a Stress Biomarker Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Pauline Kleinschlömer, Mine Kühn, Lara Bister, Tobias C. Vogt, Sandra Krapf
Changes in family structure (e.g., parental separation or stepfamily formation) are associated with a deterioration in children’s well-being. Most researchers have focused on the impact of such changes on children’s educational and psychosocial outcomes, whereas the effects on children’s biological processes have been studied less often. We analyze the effects of changes in family structure on children’s
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Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Tyson H. Brown, Patricia Homan
Less than 1% of studies on racialized health inequities have empirically examined their root cause: structural racism. Moreover, there has been a disconnect between the conceptualization and measurement of structural racism. This study advances the field by (1) distilling central tenets of theories of structural racism to inform measurement approaches, (2) conceptualizing U.S. states as racializing
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Transitory or Chronic? Gendered Loneliness Trajectories over Widowhood and Separation in Older Age Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Nicole Kapelle, Christiaan Monden
We investigate how loneliness develops over the marital dissolution process in older age (i.e., transition at or after age 50) while paying close attention to heterogeneities by the dissolution pathway—widowhood and separation—and gender. Using data from over 8,000 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey respondents, we assess the association of interest using fixed effects regressions
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“Pills Don’t Teach Skills”: ADHD Coaching, Identity Work, and the Push toward the Liminal Medicalization of ADHD Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Meredith Bergey
Despite physicians’ near monopoly over medicalization historically, various stakeholder groups shape an increasingly complex process today. This study examines a relatively new initiative, “health coaching,” within the context of the changing nature of medicalization. Utilizing 51 in-depth interviews with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) coaches, participant observation from seven ADHD
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Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Emma Zang, Melissa Tian
This study investigates how upward mobility context affects health during transition to adulthood and its variations by race and sex. Using county-level upward mobility measures and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we apply propensity score weighting techniques to examine these relationships. Results show that low upward mobility context increases the likelihood of poor self-rated health
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Institutional Failures as Structural Determinants of Suicide: The Opioid Epidemic and the Great Recession in the United States Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Daniel H. Simon, Ryan K. Masters
We investigate recent trends in U.S. suicide mortality using a “structural determinants of health” framework. We access restricted-use multiple cause of death files to track suicide rates among U.S. Black, White, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Latino/a men and women between 1990 and 2017. We examine suicide deaths separately by poisonings and nonpoisonings to illustrate that (1) women’s suicide
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Strategic (Non)Disclosure: Activation and Avoidance of Social Ties among Women Seeking Abortion Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Kathleen Broussard
The increased politicization of sexual and reproductive health has created barriers to medically necessary care. In absence of formal health care, social ties become critical sources of information and resources, yet the disclosure of stigmatized health needs carries significant risk. How do people navigate the risks and benefits of disclosure when seeking care for stigmatized needs? Drawing on original
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How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Sergio Chávez, Robert Bozick, Jing Li
In the United States, natural disasters have increased in frequency and intensity, causing significant damage to communities, infrastructure, and human life. Migrant workers form part of a growing occupational group that rebuilds in the aftermath of natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes. The work these migrant workers perform is essential but also unstable, exploitative, and dangerous, which
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High-Stakes Treatment Negotiations Gone Awry: The Importance of Interactions for Understanding Treatment Advocacy and Patient Resistance. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Alexandra Tate,Karen Lutfey Spencer
Doctors (and sociologists) have a long history of struggling to understand why patients seek medical help yet resist treatment recommendations. Explanations for resistance have pointed to macrostructural changes, such as the rise of the engaged patient or decline of physician authority. Rather than assuming that concepts such as resistance, authority, or engagement are exogenous phenomena transmitted
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Health Care Stereotype Threat and Sexual and Gender Minority Well-Being. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 R Kyle Saunders,Dawn C Carr,Amy M Burdette
Sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) have experienced progressive change over the last 50 years. However, this group still reports worse health and health care experiences. An innovative survey instrument that applies stereotype threat to the health care setting, health care stereotype threat (HCST), offers a new avenue to examine these disparities. We harmonized two national probability data sets of
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Cumulative Unionization and Physical Health Disparities among Older Adults. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Xiaowen Han,Tom VanHeuvelen,Jeylan T Mortimer,Zachary Parolin
Whereas previous research shows that union membership is associated with improved health, static measurements have been used to test dynamic theories linking the two. We construct a novel measure of cumulative unionization, tracking individuals across their entire careers, to examine health consequences in older adulthood. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1970-2019) and predict
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Invoking Uncertainty: Parents' Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Keith Cox
In pediatric medical visits, parents may assume the role of co-caregiver with clinicians. At times, parents challenge physicians' authority to determine diagnoses and treatments for their children. The present study uses conversation analysis to examine parents' accounts for their intrusions on medical authority in a corpus of 35 video-recorded pediatric neurology visits for overnight video-electroencephalogram
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Hurt on Both Sides: Political Differences in Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Max E Coleman,Matthew A Andersson
Republicans and conservatives report better self-rated health and well-being compared to Democrats and liberals, yet they are more likely to reside in geographic areas with heavy COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. This harmed health on "both sides" of political divides, occurring in a time of rapid sociopolitical upheaval, warrants the revisiting of psychosocial mechanisms linked to political health
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COVID-19's Unequal Toll: Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life by Gendered and Racialized Groups. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Konrad Franco,Caitlin Patler,Whitney Laster Pirtle
We examine whether the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with changes to daily activity limitations due to poor physical or mental health and whether those changes were different within and between gendered and racialized groups. We analyze 497,302 observations across the 2019 and 2020 waves of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey. Among White
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Peeking under the Hood of Job Stress: How Men and Women's Stress Levels Vary by Typologies of Job Quality and Family Composition. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Grace Venechuk
Changes to work and family norms and polices over the last several decades have reshaped both the job quality and the nature of job and family formation in the United States. Neoliberal policies have generated a slew of flexible but precarious working conditions; labor force participation is now the modal path for all genders regardless of parental or marital status. Leveraging data on 3,419 working
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Sleep Duration Differences by Education from Middle to Older Adulthood: Does Employment Stratification Contribute to Gendered Leveling? Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Jess M Meyer
Sleep duration changes across the life course and differs by education in the United States. However, little research has examined whether educational differences in sleep duration change over age-or whether sleep duration trajectories over age differ by education. This study uses a life course approach to analyze American Time Use Survey data (N = 60,908), examining how educational differences in
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Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Ning Hsieh
Health care research has long overlooked the intersection of multiple social inequalities. This study examines influenza vaccination inequities at the intersection of sexuality, gender, and race-ethnicity. Using data from the 2013 to 2018 National Health Interview Survey (N = 166,908), the study shows that sexual, gender, and racial-ethnic identities jointly shaped flu vaccination. Specifically, White
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The Mental "Weight" of Discrimination: The Relationship between Perceived Interpersonal Weight Discrimination and Suicidality in the United States. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Carlyn E Graham,Michelle L Frisco
Extant research has investigated the relationship between body weight and suicidality because obesity is highly stigmatized, leading to social marginalization and discrimination, yet has produced mixed results. Scholars have speculated that factors associated with body weight, such as weight discrimination, may better predict suicidality than body weight itself. We consider this possibility among a
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Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Emily C Dore,Surbhi Shrivastava,Patricia Homan
Preventive health care use can reduce the risk of disease, disability, and death. Thus, it is critical to understand factors that shape preventive care use. A growing body of research identifies structural sexism as a driver of population health, but it remains unknown if structural sexism is linked to preventive care use and, if so, whether the relationship differs for women and men. Gender performance
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Analysis of Sex-Specific Gene-by-Cohort and Genetic Correlation-by-Cohort Interaction in Educational and Reproductive Outcomes Using the UK Biobank Data. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Boyan Zheng,Jason Fletcher,Jie Song,Qiongshi Lu
Synthesizing prior gene-by-cohort (G×C) interaction studies, we theorize that changes in genetic effects by social conditions depend on the level of resource constraints, the distribution and use of resources, structural constraints, and constraints on individual choice. Motivated by the theory, we explored several sex-specific G×C trends across a set of outcomes using 30 birth cohorts of UK Biobank
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Racing the Machine: Data Analytic Technologies and Institutional Inscription of Racialized Health Injustice. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Taylor Marion Cruz
Recent scientific and policy initiatives frame clinical settings as sites for intervening upon inequality. Electronic health records and data analytic technologies offer opportunity to record standard data on education, employment, social support, and race-ethnicity, and numerous audiences expect biomedicine to redress social determinants based on newly available data. However, little is known on how
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"I Love You to Death": Social Networks and the Widowhood Effect on Mortality. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Benjamin Cornwell,Tianyao Qu
Research on "the widowhood effect" shows that mortality rates are greater among people who have recently lost a spouse. There are several medical and psychological explanations for this (e.g., "broken heart syndrome") and sociological explanations that focus on spouses' shared social-environmental exposures. We expand on sociological perspectives by arguing that couples' social connections to others
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A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Cynthia G Colen,Kelsey J Drotning,Liana C Sayer,Bruce Link
An expansive and methodologically varied literature designed to investigate racial disparities in health now exists. Empirical evidence points to an overlapping, complex web of social conditions that accelerate the pace of aging and erodes long-term health outcomes among people of color, especially Black Americans. However, a social exposure-or lack thereof-that is rarely mentioned is time use. The
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Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Alexandra Brewer
How do clinicians manage the negative emotions that emerge when hospital patients are dissatisfied with their pain treatment? Drawing on a 21-month hospital ethnography, I show that clinicians view opioids as tools that can allow them to avoid engaging in emotional labor with dissatisfied pain patients. I detail two different strategies that clinicians pursued. Through permissive prescription, clinicians
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The Buffering Effect of State Eviction and Foreclosure Policies for Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Courtney E Boen,Lisa A Keister,Christina M Gibson-Davis,Anneliese Luck
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred an economic downturn that may have eroded population mental health, especially for renters and homeowners who experienced financial hardship and were at risk of housing loss. Using household-level data from the Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey (n = 805,223; August 2020-August 2021) and state-level data on eviction/foreclosure bans, we estimated linear probability
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Black Mothers' Concern for Their Children as a Measure of Vicarious Racism-Related Vigilance and Allostatic Load. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Kathryn P Daniels,Marilyn D Thomas,David H Chae,Amani M Allen
This study investigates the relationship between allostatic load and a novel form of altruistic racism-related fear, or concern for how racism might harm another, which we term vicarious racism-related vigilance. Using a subsample of Black mothers from the African American Women's Heart & Health Study (N = 140), which includes detailed health and survey data on a community sample of Black women in
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The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility: Implications for Citywide Employment Networks. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Megan Evans,Corina Graif,Stephen A Matthews
Infant health problems are a persistent concern across the United States, disproportionally affecting socioeconomically vulnerable communities. We investigate how inequalities in infant health contribute to differences in interneighborhood commuting mobility and shape neighborhoods' embeddedness in the citywide structure of employment networks in Chicago over a 14-year period. We use the Census Bureau's
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The Power of Self-Labels: Examining Self-Esteem Consequences for Youth with Mental Health Problems. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Lexi Harari,Sharon S Oselin,Bruce G Link
New evidence on a classic sociological debate allows for a test of the consequences of self-labeling with mental illness. While a medicalized "insight" perspective emphasizes the importance of self-labeling for psychological well-being and recovery, a sociologically informed "outsight" perspective draws from modified labeling, self-labeling, and stigma resistance theories to suggest that self-labeling
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State of Confusion: Ohio's Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Danielle Czarnecki,Danielle Bessett,Hillary J Gyuras,Alison H Norris,Michelle L McGowan
This study examines an underexplored source of medical uncertainty: the political context of care. Since 2011, Ohio has passed over 16 abortion-restrictive laws. We know little about how this legislation affects reproductive health care outside of abortion clinics. Drawing on focus groups and interviews with genetic counselors and obstetrician-gynecologists, we examine how abortion legislation impacts
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Black-White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' Dementia. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Jenjira J Yahirun,Sindhu Vasireddy,Mark D Hayward
Emerging research documents the health benefits of having highly educated adult offspring. Yet less is known about whether those advantages vary across racial groups. This study examines how offspring education is tied to parents' dementia risk for Black and White parents in the United States. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, findings suggest that children's education does not account
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"It Wasn't Very Public-Clinicy": Client Experiences at Faith-Based Pregnancy Centers. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Kendra Hutchens
Faith-based pregnancy centers strive to offer "alternatives to abortion" that supporters claim aid women and critics assert manipulate pregnant people, stigmatize abortion, and potentially delay clients from obtaining medical care. However, scholars know little about the exchanges within appointments and how clients make sense of these experiences. Drawing on ethnographic observations of client appointments
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Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Victoria E Rodriguez,Laura E Enriquez,Annie Ro,Cecilia Ayón
Research has consistently linked discrimination and poorer health; however, fewer studies have focused on immigration-related discrimination and mental health outcomes. Drawing on quantitative surveys (N = 1,131) and qualitative interviews (N = 63) with Latino undergraduate students who are undocumented or U.S. citizens with undocumented parents, we examine the association between perceived immigration-related
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Loneliness during the Pregnancy-Seeking Process: Exploring the Role of Medically Assisted Reproduction Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Selin Köksal, Alice Goisis
This study explores whether undergoing medically assisted reproduction (MAR) is associated with experiencing loneliness and whether this association varies by gender and having a live birth. Using ...
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The Sociocognitive Origins of Personal Mastery Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Gordon Brett, Soli Dubash
This article examines the relationship between cognitive processing and mastery. While scholars have called for the integration of sociological and cognitive analyses of mastery, sociological resea...
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How Social Roles Affect Sleep Health during Midlife Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Cleothia Frazier, Tyson H. Brown
This study draws on role theory and the life course perspective to examine how sleep health (duration, quality, and latency) is shaped by social role accumulation (number of roles), role repertoire...
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Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Ryan K. Masters, Andrea M. Tilstra, Daniel H. Simon, Kate Coleman-Minahan
Induction of labor (IOL) rates in the United States have nearly tripled since 1990. We examine official U.S. birth records to document increases in states’ IOL rates among pregnancies to Black, Lat...
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Disability Is Not a Burden: The Relationship between Early Childhood Disability and Maternal Health Depends on Family Socioeconomic Status Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Laurin E. Bixby
Narratives rooted in ableism portray disabled children as burdens on their families. Prior research highlights health disparities between mothers of disabled children and mothers of nondisabled chi...
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The Effect of Welfare State Policy Spending on the Equalization of Socioeconomic Status Disparities in Mental Health Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Matthew Parbst, Blair Wheaton
This article examines whether and how the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and depression is modified by welfare state spending using the 2006, 2012, and 2014 survey rounds of the Eu...
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Less Time for Health: Parenting, Work, and Time-Intensive Health Behaviors among Married or Cohabiting Men and Women in the United States Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Patrick M. Krueger, Joshua A. Goode, Paula Fomby, Jarron M. Saint Onge
Time spent working or caring for children may reduce the time available for undertaking time-intensive health behaviors. We test competing perspectives about how work hours and the number of childr...
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Extreme Violence and Weight-Related Outcomes in Mexican Adults Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Miguel Quintana-Navarrete
Sociological research suggests that violent environments contribute to excess weight, a pressing health issue worldwide. However, this research has neglected extreme forms of violence, such as arme...
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Family Formation History and the Psychological Well-Being of Women from Diverse Racial-Ethnic Groups Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Robert Crosnoe, Carol A. Johnston, Shannon E. Cavanagh, Elizabeth Gershoff
Studying disparities in psychological well-being across diverse groups of women can illuminate the racialized health risks of gendered family life. Integrating life course and demand–reward perspec...
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Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 ChangHwan Kim, Harris Hyun-soo Kim
Using cross-national data containing information on the status rank of network alters, this study investigates the potential negative effects of “upward status heterophily,” ties to and perceived i...
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Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 William C. Cockerham
Social change produces alterations in society that necessitate changes in sociological theories. Two significant changes affecting health lifestyle theory are the behaviors associated with the COVI...
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Switching Clinics: Patient Autonomy over the Course of Their Careers in Consumer Medicine Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Eliza Brown
Patient autonomy, or the right to make decisions about medical care, is usually examined either within clinical encounters with medical providers or outside of clinics via social movements to trans...
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Does Children’s Education Improve Parental Health and Longevity? Causal Evidence from Great Britain Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Cecilia Potente, Patrick Präg, Christiaan W. S. Monden
Parents with better-educated children are healthier and live longer, but whether there is a causal effect of children’s education on their parents’ health and longevity is unclear. First, we demons...
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Ongoing Remote Work, Returning to Working at Work, or in between during COVID-19: What Promotes Subjective Well-being? Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Wen Fan, Phyllis Moen
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a massive turn to remote work, followed by subsequent shifts for many into hybrid or fully returning to the office. To understand the patterned dynamics of subjec...
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Health, Suicidal Thoughts, and the Life Course: How Worsening Health Emerges as a Determinant of Suicide Ideation in Early Adulthood Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Carlyn Graham, Andrew Fenelon
Poor physical health places adults at greater risk for suicide ideation. However, the linkage between health and suicidal thoughts may emerge and become established during early adulthood, concomit...
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Fatherhood, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Legal System Contact over the Life Course Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Tasseli McKay, Eman Tadros
Life course theories suggest that fathers’ lifetime criminal legal system contact could contribute to poor parent–child outcomes via deterioration in couple relationship quality and fathers’ behavi...
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Whose Good Death? Valuation and Standardization as Mechanisms of Inequality in Hospitals Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Katrina E. Hauschildt
Although most clinicians have come to perceive invasive life-sustaining treatments as overly aggressive at the end of life, some of the public and greater proportions of some socially disadvantaged...
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The Biomedical Subjectification of Women of Advanced Maternal Age: Reproductive Risk, Privilege, and the Illusion of Control Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Emily S. Mann, Dana Berkowitz
The United States is experiencing a demographic transition toward older motherhood. Biomedicine classifies pregnancies among all women of advanced maternal age (AMA) as high-risk; paradoxically, wo...
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Race, Toxic Exposures, and Environmental Health: The Contestation of Lupus among Farmworkers Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Alison E. Adams, Anne Saville, Thomas E. Shriver
Extant research has established that low-wage workers of color are at higher risk for occupational exposures. While the medical sociology literature regarding contested illness provides insights in...
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Romantic Unions and Mental Health: The Role of Relationship Churning Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Kristin Turney
The stress process perspective suggests that romantic relationship transitions can be stressors that impair mental health. Research on romantic relationships and mental health has ignored one commo...
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“Si Mis Papas Estuvieran Aquí”: Unaccompanied Youth Workers’ Emergent Frame of Reference and Health in the United States Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Stephanie L. Canizales
Relying on in-depth interviews and ethnographic data in Los Angeles, California, this study examines the health experiences of unaccompanied, undocumented Latin American-origin immigrant youth as t...
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The Long Arm of Childhood: Does It Vary According to Health Care System Quality? Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2022-09-04 Matthew A. Andersson, Lindsay R. Wilkinson, Markus H. Schafer
Increasing evidence points to the salience of early life experiences in shaping health inequalities, but scant research has considered the role of institutional resources as buffers in this relatio...
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Why Your Doctor Didn’t Go to Class: Student Culture, High-Stakes Testing, and Novel Coupling Configurations in an Allopathic Medical School Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Judson G. Everitt, James M. Johnson, William H. Burr
A clear pattern has emerged in allopathic medical schools across the United States: Most medical students have stopped going to class. While this trend among students is well known in medical educa...
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Clinical Need, Perceived Need, and Treatment Use: Estimating Unmet Need for Mental Health Services in the Adult Population Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2022-08-21 Peggy A. Thoits
Estimates of unmet need for mental health services in the adult population are too high because many recover without treatment. Untreated recovery suggests that individuals accurately perceive prof...
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Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Rachel Donnelly, Hyungmin Cha, Debra Umberson
Although the bereavement literature is voluminous, we know very little about how exposure to multiple family member deaths across the life course shapes health trajectories as people age and whethe...