The research tradition on social relationships, social networks, and health dates back to the
beginning of sociology. As exemplified in the classic work of Durkheim, Simmel, and …

Objective With needed and growing attention to sexual minorities and unmarried individuals,
there is a need to consider how best to capture relationships and relationship organization …

Married men and women have better health than non-married, but little is known about how
cohabitation and marital history are associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence …

Self-rated health (SRH) is one of the most important social science measures of health. Yet
its measurement properties remain poorly understood. Most studies ignore the …

Background Sexual minority (SM) older adults experience mental health disparities.
Psychiatric disorders and neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are risk factors for cognitive …

Significant expansion of legal rights and recognition of sexual minority populations triggered
expectations that structural stigma, sexual minority stress and, consequently, previously well …

The weathering hypothesis proposes that marginalized people experience faster biologic
aging due to cumulative stress which translates to chronic disease disparities. We assessed …

This essential text explores the concept of" Me-Marriage"—a marital relationship that blends
individualized life goals and interests—and draws from research on the current benefits and …

While religiosity has generally been found to be associated with health, sexual minority
individuals are a theoretically unique population in the literature. Because of sample size …

Background Prior scholarship on same-sex relationships and health has primarily relied on
cross-sectional data, leaving a number of unanswered questions about health changes of …