Sociology 2245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Repetitive Strain Injury, Cardiovascular Disease, Longitudinal Study
28 Mar 2018
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The influence of work and family life on health. In this chapter, we will examine how health is related to roles associated with work and family life. Unemployment: risk for death and disease is significantly lower on average for those employed (versus unemployed) In other words, those who are unemployed tend to be in worse health than those who are in paid employment. Employment and health: how does being unemployed differ from job loss (chronic strain versus stressful life event), stress proliferation: the process by which an initial stressor fives rise to other stressor, job loss can trigger many other stressors. No recent data does not find evidence of the sex role hypothesis benefits of marriage extend equally to both men and women. Family instability hypothesis: a turbulence associated with multiple changes in family structure cumulatively erodes health and well-being to a greater extent and in a qualitatively different way than a single change in family structure.
