Debra Umberson
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Debra J. Umberson is an American sociologist. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the Population Research Center. Early life and education Umberson earned her Bachelor of Arts degree and MSW at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and her Master's degree and PhD from Vanderbilt University.
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Published Works
- Social relationships and health. (1988) (8116)
- Social Relationships and Health: A Flashpoint for Health Policy (2010) (1723)
- Structures and Processes of Social Support (1988) (1705)
- Gender, marital status and the social control of health behavior. (1992) (1292)
- Family status and health behaviors: social control as a dimension of social integration. (1987) (1142)
- Social Relationships and Health Behavior Across Life Course. (2010) (944)
- Marital Status, Marital Transitions, and Health: A Gendered Life Course Perspective∗ (2004) (650)
- You Make Me Sick: Marital Quality and Health Over the Life Course∗ (2006) (584)
- The effect of social relationships on psychological well-being: Are men and women really so different? (1996) (558)
- Parenthood, Childlessness, and Well-Being: A Life Course Perspective. (2010) (515)
- Widowhood and depression: explaining long-term gender differences in vulnerability. (1992) (484)
- Relationships between adult children and their parents: Psychological consequences for both generations. (1992) (472)
- GENDERING VIOLENCE (2001) (323)
- The Times They Are a Changin': Marital Status and Health Differentials from 1972 to 2003∗ (2008) (322)
- As Good as it Gets? A Life Course Perspective on Marital Quality (2005) (243)
- Family Relationships and Well-Being (2017) (233)
- Parenthood and Psychological Well-Being (1989) (187)
- The impact of physical attractiveness on achievement and psychological well-being. (1987) (185)
- Race, Gender, and Chains of Disadvantage (2014) (170)
- The Performance of Desire: Gender and Sexual Negotiation in Long-Term Marriages. (2008) (159)
- Gender, health behavior, and intimate relationships: lesbian, gay, and straight contexts. (2012) (152)
- Widowhood and depression: new light on gender differences, selection, and psychological adjustment. (2014) (151)
- Relationships with Children: Explaining Parents' Psychological Well-Being. (1989) (144)
- Divorced Fathers (1993) (143)
- Family Status and Mental Health (1999) (138)
- Domestic Violence, Personal Control, and Gender (1998) (123)
- Effects of a Parent's Death on Adult Children: Relationship Salience and Reaction to Loss (1994) (114)
- Challenges and Opportunities for Research on Same-Sex Relationships. (2015) (112)
- Death of family members as an overlooked source of racial disadvantage in the United States (2017) (110)
- Marital Status, Marital Transitions, and Body Weight∗ (2009) (101)
- All Shook Up: Sexuality of Mid- to Later Life Married Couples. (2012) (95)
- Intimacy and Emotion Work in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Relationships. (2015) (93)
- Relationship Dynamics, Emotion State, and Domestic Violence: A Stress and Masculinities Perspective (2003) (90)
- Family Status and Mental Health: Recent Advances and Future Directions (2013) (89)
- Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The role of pandemic-related stressors (2021) (88)
- Gendered emotion work around physical health problems in mid- and later-life marriages. (2015) (79)
- Marital quality, health, and aging: gender equity? (2005) (77)
- Violent behavior: a measure of emotional upset? (2002) (74)
- Parenthood and trajectories of change in body weight over the life course. (2011) (72)
- Black Deaths Matter: Race, Relationship Loss, and Effects on Survivors (2017) (71)
- Family Matters: Research on Family Ties and Health, 2010-2020. (2020) (69)
- Marital Histories and Heavy Alcohol Use among Older Adults (2016) (67)
- Stress and health behaviour over the life course (2008) (66)
- How women experience menopause: the importance of social context. (1999) (65)
- Age and embodied masculinities: midlife gay and heterosexual men talk about their bodies. (2013) (63)
- Stress in Childhood and Adulthood: Effects on Marital Quality Over Time. (2005) (62)
- Commitment Without Marriage (2009) (59)
- The Batterer's View of the Self and Others in Domestic Violence (2001) (53)
- Marital Processes around Depression (2013) (53)
- The Social Psychology of Stress, Health, and Coping (2013) (51)
- Marriage as Support or Strain? Marital Quality Following the Death of a Parent (1995) (50)
- Marriage, Social Control, and Health Behavior: A Dyadic Analysis of Same-sex and Different-sex Couples (2018) (49)
- Variety Is the Spice of Late Life: Social Integration and Daily Activity. (2020) (48)
- Diet and Exercise in Parenthood: A Social Control Perspective. (2014) (39)
- Sociodemographic position, world views, and psychological distress (1993) (37)
- Marital Quality and Cognitive Limitations in Late Life. (2016) (37)
- Physical Illness in Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Marriages (2016) (36)
- Gender, Marriage, and Health for Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples: The Future Keeps Arriving (2016) (33)
- Gender, stress in childhood and adulthood, and trajectories of change in body mass. (2015) (33)
- Greedy Spouse, Needy Parent: The Marital Dynamics of Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Intergenerational Caregivers. (2016) (32)
- Just the Two of Us? How Parents Influence Adult Children's Marital Quality. (2010) (30)
- Medical Technology and Childbirth: Experiences of Expectant Mothers and Fathers (1999) (27)
- Childhood Adversity and Men's Relationships in Adulthood: Life Course Processes and Racial Disadvantage. (2016) (26)
- MARITAL STRAIN AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS IN SAME-SEX AND DIFFERENT-SEX COUPLES. (2019) (25)
- Death of a parent: Transition to a new adult identity (2003) (25)
- Instrumental- and Emotion-Focused Care Work During Physical Health Events: Comparing Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Marriages (2016) (24)
- Healthcare Work in Marriage: How Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Spouses Encourage and Coerce Medical Care (2018) (23)
- Timing of Impairment and Health-Promoting Lifestyles in Women With Disabilities (2010) (22)
- Gender Conformity, Perceptions of Shared Power, and Marital Quality in Same- and Different-Sex Marriages (2018) (22)
- Parenting and Well-Being (1989) (21)
- Planning for Future Care and the End of Life: A Qualitative Analysis of Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Couples (2017) (21)
- Health and Health Behavior Concordance between Spouses in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages (2018) (20)
- The Gender-as-Relational Approach for Theorizing About Romantic Relationships of Sexual and Gender Minority Mid- to Later-Life Adults. (2020) (19)
- Relationship dynamics around depression in gay and lesbian couples. (2015) (19)
- Influence of Social Connections on Smoking Behavior across the Life Course. (2019) (18)
- VIOLENCE AND ABUSE IN FAMILIES (2003) (17)
- Sex in Midlife: Women's Sexual Experiences in Lesbian and Straight Marriages. (2018) (17)
- The Social Construction of Death in the Gulf War (1992) (17)
- Do Older Parents’ Relationships With Their Adult Children Affect Cognitive Limitations, and Does This Differ for Mothers and Fathers? (2018) (16)
- Neighborhood revitalization and racial change: The case of Washington, D.C. (1985) (16)
- Psychological Distress Transmission in Same-sex and Different-sex Marriages (2018) (16)
- The Symbolic Meaning of Relationships: Implications for Psychological Distress Following Relationship Loss (1997) (16)
- Recent Demographic Trends in the US and Implications for Well‐Being (2007) (15)
- “Go See Somebody”: How Spouses Promote Mental Health Care (2020) (13)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Families (2015) (13)
- Binge Drinking and Depression (2017) (13)
- Widowhood and mortality: gender, race/ethnicity, and the role of economic resources. (2020) (12)
- Childhood Adversity, Daily Stress, and Marital Strain in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages (2017) (11)
- Can Spouses Buffer the Impact of Discrimination on Depressive Symptoms? An Examination of Same-sex and Different-sex Marriages (2018) (11)
- Marriage in Young Adulthood (2009) (10)
- Race, death of a child, and mortality risk among aging parents in the United States. (2020) (8)
- Parents, Adult Children, and Immortality (2006) (8)
- Death of a Child Prior to Midlife, Dementia Risk, and Racial Disparities. (2019) (7)
- Women, Stress, and Health (2013) (7)
- Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course (2022) (6)
- The Psychological Toll of Emotion Work in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marital Dyads. (2020) (6)
- Interactive Stress and Coping Around Parenting: Explaining Trajectories of Change in Intimate Relationships Over the Life Course (2007) (6)
- Family Member Death and Subjective Life Expectancy Among Black and White Older Adults (2018) (6)
- Work Related Injury Among Aging Women (2013) (5)
- Marital Quality, Health, and Aging: Gender Equity? (2005) (5)
- LGBTQ-Parent Families and Health (2020) (5)
- Support in response to a spouse’s distress: Comparing women and men in same-sex and different-sex marriages (2021) (4)
- Death of a parent (2003) (4)
- 44 – Women, Stress, and Health (2000) (4)
- Sociobiology: a valid explanation of child abuse? (1986) (3)
- Parental Death and Cognitive Impairment: An Examination by Gender and Race-ethnicity. (2021) (3)
- Racial Differences in Early Parental Death, Midlife Life Problems, and Relationship Strain With Adult Children. (2021) (3)
- Mental Health and Family Status (2014) (3)
- What We Know (And Don’t Know) About the Bereavement Experiences of Same-Sex Spouses (2018) (2)
- How Spouses Influence Each Other’s Health Habits in Same-Sex Compared to Different-Sex Marriages (2018) (2)
- Marital Strain Increases Psychological Distress for Couples in Both Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages, but Women in Different-Sex Marriages Suffer More (2019) (2)
- Sexual intimacy in mid- and late-life couples. (2016) (2)
- Sibling Deaths, Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage, and Dementia in Later Life. (2021) (2)
- The Death of a Child and Parents' Psychological Distress in Mid to Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Exposure and Vulnerability. (2021) (2)
- Death of a Parent: Contents (2003) (2)
- Dyadic coping and marital quality in same-sex and different-sex marriages (2022) (1)
- Stress and the Provision of Social Support in Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Marriages (2016) (1)
- Do Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Spouses Differ in the Ways They Care for Each Other During Physical Illness? (2017) (1)
- Women's caring: Feminist perspectives on social welfare: edited by Carol Baines, Patricia Evans and Shiela Neysmith. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, 1991. 310 pp (1993) (1)
- The Effects of Family Transitions on Depressive Symptoms: Differences among Young Adults with and without Childhood Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (2020) (1)
- Marital Status, Marital Transitions, and Alcohol Use: A Mixed-methods Study (2012) (1)
- Marriage and Family: Perspectives and Complexities (2010) (1)
- Differences in how spouses influence each other's alcohol use in same- and different-sex marriages: A daily diary study. (2020) (1)
- Sociological theory and Sociology of Health and Medicine in the international journals (2012) (1)
- DEATH OF A CHILD AND MORTALITY RISK OVER THE LIFE COURSE: RACIAL DISADVANTAGE IN THE U.S. (2019) (1)
- Sexual Motives, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Among Midlife Different-Sex and Same-Sex Couples. (2022) (1)
- EXPOSURE AND EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY TO DAILY STRESS IN SAME-SEX AND DIFFERENT-SEX MARRIAGES (2019) (1)
- Does the Death of a Child Prior to Midlife Increase Later Dementia Risk for Parents? Is this Disadvantage Greater for Black Parents than for White Parents? (2019) (1)
- Two Articles on Same-Sex Couples and Health (2013) (1)
- Exposure to Family Member Deaths Across the Life Course for Hispanic Individuals. (2023) (0)
- Same-Sex Marriage and Mental Health: (2020) (0)
- Maternal Mental Health: Where Should Our Research and Policy Priorities Be? (2020) (0)
- EMPATHIC RESPONSE AND MARITAL QUALITY FOR SAME- AND DIFFERENT-SEX MIDLIFE COUPLES: MEDIATING ROLE OF DYADIC COPING (2022) (0)
- Sibling Death in the Family and Dementia Risk (2020) (0)
- Has Never Been Easier! Structural Equation Modeling (2008) (0)
- Broken Masculinities and Femininities: Gender and Sexuality Among Older Married Couples (2010) (0)
- Sleep quality moderates the association between family bereavement and heart rate variability. (2022) (0)
- MY BROTHER'S KEEPER (2003) (0)
- Death of a Parent: UNEXPECTED CRISIS (2003) (0)
- Comprar Death of a Parent | Debra Umberson | 9780521012966 | Cambridge University Press (2007) (0)
- Death of a Parent: SYMBOLIC LOSS (2003) (0)
- Multiple Family Member Deaths and Cardiometabolic Health among Black and White Older Adults (2022) (0)
- Death of a Parent: THE NEXT GENERATION (2003) (0)
- RITE OF PASSAGE (2003) (0)
- Widowhood (2000) (0)
- Death of a Parent: APPENDIX: DATA AND METHODS (2003) (0)
- BMI Change After Parent’s Death in Adulthood: Examining Age and Race Differences With Time-Varying Effects Modeling (2021) (0)
- Presidential Symposium: Social Engagement, Isolation, and Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (0)
- Commitment without Marriage: Union Formation among Long-Term Gay and Lesbian Couples (2007) (0)
- DEALING WITH A DISTRESSED SPOUSE: MARITAL DYNAMICS IN SAME-SEX AND DIFFERENT-SEX COUPLES (2019) (0)
- How Losing Family Members Earlier than Expected Adds to Racial Disadvantage for U.S. Blacks (2017) (0)
- Death of a Parent: ORDINARY LOSS, EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE (2003) (0)
- Parenthood and Well-being Over the Life Course (2009) (0)
- Death of a Parent: INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS (2003) (0)
- When Older People Interact with Weak Social Ties, They Get Up and Move (2019) (0)
- TURNING POINT IN ADULTHOOD (2003) (0)
- Death of a Parent: THE PARENT LEFT BEHIND (2003) (0)
- 15. Same-Sex Marriage and Mental Health (2020) (0)
- Same-sex Couples Devote More Attention to End-of-Life Plans than Heterosexual Couples (2018) (0)
- Black Deaths Matter: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in Relationship Loss and Health (2018) (0)
- RACE, LIFE COURSE EXPOSURE TO DEATH OF A FAMILY MEMBER, AND HEALTH (2018) (0)
- Adulthood Stress Measure (2016) (0)
- SEXUAL MOTIVES, SEXUAL FREQUENCY, AND SEXUAL SATISFACTION AMONG MIDDLE-AGED DIFFERENT-SEX AND SAME-SEX COUPLES (2022) (0)
- Creating Mental Illness.ByAllan V Horwitz.Chicago (Illinois): University of Chicago Press. $32.50. xi + 289 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–226–35381–8. 2002. (2002) (0)
- Sleeping It Off: Sleep Quality Moderates the Association Between Family Bereavement and Heart Rate Variability (2021) (0)
- Parental Death Across the Life Course, Social Isolation, and Health in Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage in the U.S. (2023) (0)
- Emotion Work Exacts a Psychological Toll on the Emotion Worker in Both Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages, But the Toll Is Highest When the Spouse is a Depressed Man (2020) (0)
- Race and Death of Child: Exposure and Consequences for Health Summary of Preliminary Results (2018) (0)
- Perceptions of Shared Power, Gender Conformity, and Marital Quality in Same- and Different-Sex Marriages (2017) (0)
- Social Isolation: An Unequally Distributed Health Hazard (2023) (0)
- RACIAL/ETHNIC DISADVANTAGE IN PARENTAL DEATH ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE, SOCIAL ISOLATION, AND HEALTH IN LATER LIFE (2022) (0)
- Topic 5. Gender and Work in Health Inequalities Marital Quality, Health, and Aging: Gender Equity? (2005) (0)
- Support in Response to a Spouse's Distress: Comparing Women and Men in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages (2021) (0)
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