編者按
“學術論著”是意昂3平台推出的學術欄目，介紹本院教師新近發表的前沿研究🎀。本期推薦文章來自社會學系杜世超青年副研究員。
Du, S. (2023). (Un)Health from parental intervention: Does the marriage formation pathway influence married people’s health? Social Science & Medicine, 336: 116250.
期刊介紹
Social Science & Medicine是健康與醫學領域的國際著名學術期刊🧑🏽🦱，致力於發表社會科學與醫學交叉學科的研究。
研究介紹
父母為子女安排相親等婚姻實踐在我國屢見不鮮，不少年輕人依然依靠父母的介入或父母的社會網絡來成婚，但是鮮有研究探索這種成婚方式是否會對婚姻福祉產生影響。本研究以夫妻健康作為一項指標，研究父母介入的成婚方式是否會影響婚姻福祉。一方面🤶🏿，從發展主義和個體主義的角度而言，相較自主成婚，父母介入的婚姻缺少夫妻之間的情感聯結🧞♀️，導致婚姻所提供的健康支持較少🕥，影響夫妻健康。但另一方面，父母介入的婚姻意味著雙方家庭對夫妻更高的代際支持，這對夫妻健康有利。同時🦪，我們也應該警惕選擇性偏誤的存在，即健康狀況較差（在婚姻市場上吸引力較差）的人更有可能依靠父母的幫助進入婚姻。通過使用父輩社區孝道文化構建的工具變量，本研究發現父母介入與夫妻健康之間存在負相關，但當工具變量的因果推斷引入之後，負相關消失。由此🤔，本研究得出結論🧂：父母介入與夫妻健康之間並不存在顯著的相關關系🤽🏻♂️，二者之間的聯系更可能是婚姻市場中高度的（健康）選擇所造成的🧗🏿♂️。
文章摘要
The relationship between marriage and its health consequences has been well documented. Yet, little is known about whether health disparities still exist among married people due to different marriage formation pathways. Using data from a special module of the Chinese General Social Survey, this study examines the health effects of parental intervention in children’s marriage formation. Results show that parental intervention in marriage formation is negatively associated with married people’s self-rated health, but the association disappears after the selection effect is controlled for. These results suggest that the selection effect largely explains the association between parent-intervened marriage and its negative health outcomes among married people. That is to say, people with poorer health are more likely to rely on their parents for marriage formation. The findings are found in both husbands and wives and hold robust in multiple robustness tests. This study extends marriage-health research from the comparison between married and single people to the comparison within the married group.
作者簡介
杜世超，現任意昂3社會學系青年副研究員，主要研究方向為婚姻與家庭🐛、社會網絡、健康行為，及文化社會學👩🏼🚀。近年在Social Science & Medicine, Higher Education, Chinese Sociological Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Population Research and Policy Review, China Quarterly, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics等中英文期刊、SCI及SSCI雜誌上發表文章十余篇。