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Dr. I-Fen Lin, Professor, Bowling Green State University, Title of Talk: Consequences of Later-Life Marital Dissolution for Adult Well-Being: A Call for the Convalescence Model
Abstract:
Later-life marital dissolution increasingly occurs through divorce not widowhood, reflecting the rising rate of divorce among older adults and gains in life expectancy. Yet, the consequences of later-life divorce for individual well-being are poorly understood. Prior work on later-life marital dissolution focuses on bereavement, positing either a short-term, acute grief period or chronic, unrelenting grief. The divorce literature offers an analogous bifurcated explanation in the stress-adjustment perspective on divorce. Adjustment either occurs during a brief crisis period or is elusive as divorce creates chronic strain. In this talk, a third trajectory that is emergent in recent, longitudinal studies—the convalescence model—will be introduced.
