Social Integration and Longevity: An Event History Analysis of Women's Roles and Resilience

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Theory and research on the consequences of multiple roles have focused on psychological well-being or physical health, with studies typically employing cross-sectional data to examine relationships at single points in time. This paper investigates the implications of multiple roles for the longevity of women. Drawing on a two-wave 30-year panel study of 427 wives and mothers in upstate New York, we use event history techniques to test the effects of both the number and the nature of roles on the duration of women's lives. We find that social integration, defined by the number of roles occupied, promotes longevity, but that one form of integration--membership in voluntary organizations--is especially salutary.

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