MARITAL STATUS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING: A CROSS SECTION ANALYSIS

Ugo Perini () and Emiliano Sironi ()
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Ugo Perini: School of Economics, Universita` Commerciale ‘‘L. Bocconi’’
Emiliano Sironi: Department of Statistical Sciences, Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2016, vol. 124, issue 1, 41-48

Abstract: 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

Keywords: Marital status; Psychological well-being; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 I31 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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