Families, Resources, and Adult Health: Where Do Sexual Minorities Fit?

dc.citation.firstpage46en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleJournal of Health and Social Behavioren_US
dc.citation.lastpage63en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber54en_US
dc.contributor.authorDenney, Justin T.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGorman, Bridget K.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBarrera, Cristina B.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-06T18:54:05Zen_US
dc.date.available2014-03-06T18:54:05Zen_US
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractExtensive research documents the relevance of families and socioeconomic resources to health. This paper extends that research to sexual minorities, using twelve years of the National Health Interview Survey (N = 460,459) to examine self-evaluations of health among male and female adults living in same sex and opposite sex relationships. Adjusting for SES eliminates differences between same and opposite sex cohabiters so that they have similarly higher odds of poor health relative to married persons. Results by gender reveal that the cohabitation disadvantage for health is more pronounced for opposite sex cohabiting women than for men but little difference exists between same sex cohabiting men and women. Finally, the presence of children in the home is more protective for women's than men's health, but those protections are specific to married women. In all, the results elucidate the importance of relationship type, gender, and the presence of children when evaluating health.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDenney, Justin T., Gorman, Bridget K. and Barrera, Cristina B.. "Families, Resources, and Adult Health: Where Do Sexual Minorities Fit?." <i>Journal of Health and Social Behavior,</i> 54, no. 1 (2013) Sage: 46-63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022146512469629.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022146512469629en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/75552en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.rightsThis is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Sage.en_US
dc.subject.keywordself-rated healthen_US
dc.subject.keywordsexual minoritiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordgenderen_US
dc.subject.keywordcohabitationen_US
dc.subject.keywordmarriageen_US
dc.subject.keywordSESen_US
dc.titleFamilies, Resources, and Adult Health: Where Do Sexual Minorities Fit?en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpost-printen_US
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