Comments on: Loneliness is Unhealthy http://www.productivity501.com/lonliness-is-unhealthy/1016/ Pieces of the productivity puzzle. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:55:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Sheadhttp://www.productivity501.com/lonliness-is-unhealthy/1016/comment-page-1/#comment-86408 Mark Shead Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:43:41 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=1016#comment-86408 @Jen - The data I saw said that women's life expectancy was not affected one way or the other by whether or not they were married. I don't have the exact study, but I believe it was based on several thousand couples in Australia in the late 80s. @Jen – The data I saw said that women’s life expectancy was not affected one way or the other by whether or not they were married. I don’t have the exact study, but I believe it was based on several thousand couples in Australia in the late 80s.

]]> By: Jenhttp://www.productivity501.com/lonliness-is-unhealthy/1016/comment-page-1/#comment-86266 Jen Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:01:28 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/?p=1016#comment-86266 <i>I have heard that from a life expectancy standpoint, not getting married is statistically equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes each day for males.</i> But some of the same studies which reveal unmarried men live more poorly than married ones revealed the opposite is true for women - unmarried women tend to be happier than married ones. So this is not the same as the study you're pointing out. How marriage affects health seems to be not so much about loneliness as whether you're in the husband or wife role. What about people who don't feel lonely being alone, I wonder? I have heard that from a life expectancy standpoint, not getting married is statistically equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes each day for males.

But some of the same studies which reveal unmarried men live more poorly than married ones revealed the opposite is true for women – unmarried women tend to be happier than married ones. So this is not the same as the study you’re pointing out. How marriage affects health seems to be not so much about loneliness as whether you’re in the husband or wife role.

What about people who don’t feel lonely being alone, I wonder?

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