Although social support is widely considered to be protective against depression, the
mechanisms through which it acts on depressive psychopathology are not well known. This�…

Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very
narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive�…

Children who experience multiple transitions in family structure may face worse
developmental outcomes than children raised in stable, two-parent families, and perhaps�…

We review research on families and health published between 2000 and 2009 and highlight
key themes and findings from innovative, methodologically rigorous studies. Whereas�…

Some of the earliest and most well-known sociological studies showed that marriage was
beneficial to mental health, marriage benefited the mental health of men more than women�…

Although marriage is associated with a plethora of adult outcomes, its causal status remains
controversial in the absence of experimental evidence. We address this problem by�…

The chapter addresses the stigma associated with mental illnesses. It begins by
summarizing the development of thinking about labeling and stigma over the past half�…

The Dictionary of Epidemiology 1 defines epidemiology as “the study of the distribution and
determinants of health-related states and events.” The definition given by the WHO appends�…

This article addresses open questions about the nature and meaning of the positive
association between marriage and well‐being, namely, the extent to which it is causal�…

Although the meanings and rates of being married, divorced, separated, never-married, and
widowed have changed significantly over the past several decades, we know very little�…