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The Psychological Well-Being of Divorced and Widowed Men and Women
An Empirical Analysis
WALTER R. GOVE
Vanderbilt University
HEE-CHOON SHIN
Vanderbilt University
In this article we focus on the psychological well-being of the widowed and divorced. The data are from a national stratified probability sample in which the divorced and widowed, particularly divorced and widowed males, were oversampled. Seven different indicators of psychological well-being are used. Compared to the married and, to a lesser extent the never married, the psychological well-being of the divorced and widowed is poor. Overall the psychological well-being of divorced males, divorced females and widowed females is roughly comparable and better than the psychological well-being of widowed males.
Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 10, No. 1,
122-144 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/019251389010001007
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