Drinking
with partner may lead to divorce
People who drink heavily have a higher risk of experiencing
a divorce, so heavy drinking likely interferes fundamentally with the quality
of marriage, said Fartein Ask Torvik, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute
of Public Health as well as corresponding author for the study
Torvik and his colleagues used data from a previous health study, in which all inhabitants in a Norwegian county were invited to participate in a health study between 1984 and 1986: 19,977 married couples partook. All participants provided information on alcohol use and mental distress.
Cox regression ("time-to-event" analysis) was used to study the risk for divorce during the next 15 years, using demographics and mental distress as covariates.
Torvik and his colleagues used data from a previous health study, in which all inhabitants in a Norwegian county were invited to participate in a health study between 1984 and 1986: 19,977 married couples partook. All participants provided information on alcohol use and mental distress.
Cox regression ("time-to-event" analysis) was used to study the risk for divorce during the next 15 years, using demographics and mental distress as covariates.
"Essentially, the more people drink, the higher is the risk of divorce," said Torvik.
"In addition, the risk of divorce is lowered if the spouses drink approximately the same amount of alcohol. This is not only true for those who drink excessively - there is also a reduced risk of divorce if both spouses abstain totally from alcohol. Also, we found heavy drinking among women to be more strongly associated with divorce than heavy drinking among men," he stated.
There are several possible explanations for this, said Torvik.
One of them, according to him, is that women in general seem to be more strongly affected by heavy drinking than men are. Thus, heavy-drinking women may be more impaired than heavy-drinking men.
However, he noted that heavy drinking is much less common among women than among men.
Furthermore, while the results indicate that compatibility in drinking is important with regard to divorce, a couple with two heavy drinkers still has a higher divorce risk than couples consisting of light drinkers, said Torvik.
He added that alcohol might also lead to other social or health problems.
Results will be published in the May 2013 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research and are currently available at Early View.
Source: www.timesofindia.com
09.02.2013
Earning less than partner affects health
Men whose
wives earn more income are more likely to use erectile dysfunction medication than those who outearn their
wives, even when the inequality is small, according to a new study.
Researchers looking at more than 200,000 married couples in Denmark from 1997 to 2006 also found that wives who outearned their husbands were more likely to suffer from insomnia and to use anti-anxiety medication.
Researchers looking at more than 200,000 married couples in Denmark from 1997 to 2006 also found that wives who outearned their husbands were more likely to suffer from insomnia and to use anti-anxiety medication.
They did not find these effects for unmarried couples or for men earning less than their wives prior to marriage.
The finding appeared online in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Source: www.timesofindia.com
09.02.2013
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