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Eating Behavior, Relationship Status, and Relationship Quality

Gebhardt-Kram, Lauren
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468936462

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2016, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Sociology.
A long-standing body of research shows that the married enjoy better health and health behavior outcomes than the unmarried across many health dimensions, except for BMI. Despite this perplexing aberration, research has yet to establish how eating behavior, a major contributor to BMI, is associated with relationship status. Furthermore, recent research contesting the notion of relationship status as the most salient predictor of health suggests that relationship quality is an additionally formidable health predictor; yet how relationship quality matters for eating behavior has yet to be examined. Data from the NLSY79 reveals that compared to the single, the married engage in significantly less risky eating behavior and there is no significant difference between the cohabiting and single on eating behavior, but only when SES is not accounted for. Additionally, among the married and cohabiting, relationship happiness is a more salient predictor of risky eating behavior than relationship strain, and these effects are similar for the married and cohabiting. Furthermore, SES confounds relationship status findings, but not quality findings. Findings bolster evidence on the declining premium of relationship status and suggest that relationship quality is a formidable predictor of health.
Corinne Reczek (Advisor)
Kristi Williams (Committee Member)
Cynthia Colen (Committee Member)
62 p.
Sociology
Relationship quality; marital quality; cohabitation; marital status; health behavior; eating behavior; health

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  • Gebhardt-Kram, L. (2016). Eating Behavior, Relationship Status, and Relationship Quality [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468936462

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gebhardt-Kram, Lauren. Eating Behavior, Relationship Status, and Relationship Quality. 2016. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468936462.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gebhardt-Kram, Lauren. "Eating Behavior, Relationship Status, and Relationship Quality." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468936462

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