Is it Better to Intermarry? Immigration Background of Married Couples and Suicide Risk Among Native-Born and Migrant Persons in Sweden.

Autor: Oksuzyan A; Chair of Demography and Health, School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany. anna.oksuzyan@uni-bielefeld.de.; Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. anna.oksuzyan@uni-bielefeld.de., Drefahl S; Demography Unit, Institute of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden., Caputo J; Center for Health and the Social Sciences and Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.; Westat, Rockville, MD, USA., Aradhya S; Demography Unit, Institute of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie [Eur J Popul] 2023 Mar 08; Vol. 39 (1), pp. 8. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 08.
DOI: 10.1007/s10680-023-09650-x
Abstrakt: Marriage is protective against suicide across most populations, including for persons of different ethnicities and immigrant backgrounds. However, the well-being benefits of marriage are contingent upon marital characteristics-such as conflict and quality-that may vary across spousal dyads with different immigration backgrounds. Leveraging Swedish register data, we compare suicide mortality among married persons on the basis of their and their spouse's immigration backgrounds. We find that relative to those in a native Swede-Swede union, Swedish men married to female immigrants and immigrant women married to native men are at higher risk of death by suicide, while immigrants of both genders who are married to someone from their birth country have a lower risk of suicide mortality. The findings support hypotheses about the strains that may be encountered by those who intermarry, as well as the potential selection of individuals into inter- and intra-ethnic marriages.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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