TY - JOUR
T1 - Marital status and psychological well-being: A cross section analysis
AU - Perini, Ugo
AU - Sironi, Emiliano
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Using data from the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), the aim of this work is to examine whether marital status is associated with individuals' psychological well-being in Georgia. Results underline that widowed and separated people show greater emotional distress with respect to married ones. Empirical evidence shows that there is an association between psychological well-being and marital status that is also gender specific with respect to some measures of well-being: women seem to be more depressed than men after having experienced a marital breakdown, while no gender differences emerge when loneliness has been considered as a measure of well-being.
AB - Using data from the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), the aim of this work is to examine whether marital status is associated with individuals' psychological well-being in Georgia. Results underline that widowed and separated people show greater emotional distress with respect to married ones. Empirical evidence shows that there is an association between psychological well-being and marital status that is also gender specific with respect to some measures of well-being: women seem to be more depressed than men after having experienced a marital breakdown, while no gender differences emerge when loneliness has been considered as a measure of well-being.
KW - Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all)2001 Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
KW - Gender
KW - Marital status
KW - Psychological well-being
KW - Social Sciences (all)
KW - Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all)2001 Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
KW - Gender
KW - Marital status
KW - Psychological well-being
KW - Social Sciences (all)
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/100376
UR - http://riss.vitaepensiero.it/direct_free_download.php?id=333978&idv=
M3 - Article
SN - 0035-676X
SP - 41
EP - 48
JO - Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali
JF - Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali
ER -