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Living with parents or grandparents increases social capital and survival: 2014 General Social Survey-National Death Index

INTRODUCTION: After nearly a century-long trend toward single-family living arrangements, people in wealthy nations are increasingly living in multi-generational households. Multi-generational living arrangements can, in theory, increase psychological, social, and financial capital—factors associate...

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Autores principales: Muennig, Peter, Jiao, Boshen, Singer, Elizabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29349275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.11.001
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: After nearly a century-long trend toward single-family living arrangements, people in wealthy nations are increasingly living in multi-generational households. Multi-generational living arrangements can, in theory, increase psychological, social, and financial capital—factors associated with improvements in health and longevity. METHODS: We conducted a survival analysis using the 2014 General Social Survey-National Death Index, a prospective multi-year survey. We explored whether single generational living arrangements were associated with a higher risk of mortality than multi-generational living arrangements. RESULTS: We explored this association for different groups (e.g., the foreign-born and those with high self-reported stress in family relationships). Healthy subjects who live in two-generation households were found to have lower premature mortality (hazard ratio 0.9, 95% confidence interval = 0.82, 0.99). Otherwise, we found little evidence that living arrangements matter for the respondents’ risk of premature mortality. CONCLUSIONS: Healthy people living in two-generation households have longer survival than healthy people living on their own.