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It is suggested here that marriage is positively related to health partly through social ties and social regulation. If so then living with other adult(s) may serve as a functional alternative in maintaining health. Data on women of working age (18-55) from the 1979 U.S. National Health Interview Survey were used to test this hypothesis for three measures of health status and three of illness behavior....It is...suggested that social statuses and arrangements affect illness behavior more than they affect health status. Implications for social integration and social regulation theory are discussed. (EXCERPT)
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