- Title
- The relationship between marital status and life satisfaction among South African adults
- Creator
- Botha, Ferdi
- Creator
- Booysen, Frikkie
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2013
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/396207
- Identifier
- vital:69158
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC138900"
- Description
- This article examines the association between marital status and reported life satisfaction in South Africa. Using the 2008 National Income Dynamics Survey, the relationship between marital status and life satisfaction is heterogeneous. In the overall sample, life satisfaction is significantly higher for married compared to widowed individuals, while the former are more satisfied than those from all other marital statuses. In the overall and female samples, married people are more satisfied compared to those from all other marital status groups. Married men are not significantly more satisfied than men from other marital statuses as a whole. Marriage is positively associated with life satisfaction among women, but not among men.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (29 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Sabinet
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Acta Academica
- Relation
- Botha, F. and Booysen, F., 2013. The relationship between marital status and life satisfaction among South African adults. Acta Academica, 45(2), pp.150-178
- Relation
- Acta Academica volume 45 number 2 p. 150 2013
- Rights
- Publisher
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- Rights
- Closed Access
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