- Adolescence
- Children
- Health
- Mental Health
- Relationships
- Journal Article
Pathways linking bullying victimisation and suicidal behaviours among adolescents
Published: 2021
This paper examines the association between chronic illness and union dissolution by examining rich, longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. Using competing-risks discrete-time event-history models on longitudinal, dyadic data, we find the risk of union dissolution to be approximately 40 percent higher when either partner reports an illness than in the absence of an illness. We then examine whether the observed associations are mediated by variations in paid work, housework, financial stress and time stress. Financial stress is the factor that contributes most to the indirect associations between dissolution and partner’s health condition, but overall these factors account for only 18.5 percent of the association between chronic illness and relationship dissolution. Our results provide further insight into the factors undermining relationship stability and highlight the importance of reducing financial stress associated with chronic illness.
Lam, J., Vidal, S., and Baxter, J. (2020). Chronic conditions, couple-level factors and union dissolution, Advances in Life Course Research, vol 45(100340). doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100340
This page was printed at 5:18 am on Thursday, 15 Aug 2024.
Please see https://lifecoursecentre.org.au/publications/chronic-conditions-couple-level-factors-and-union-dissolution/ for the latest version.
© COPYRIGHT 2024. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.