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Breaking Bonds, Changing Habits: Understanding Health Behaviors during and after Marital Dissolution

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Journal of Health and Social Behavior

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Abstract

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 86-103, March 2026.
Marital dissolution is a stressful transition that can lead to unhealthy coping strategies, including smoking and drinking. Using fixed effect linear probability models to assess health behavior changes, we analyzed 6,607 women and 6,689 men in the ...