Life length: meaning of marriage

Studies have found that from the perspective of the relationship between marriage and health and longevity, the positive relationship between them is relatively obvious, and it is worth looking forward to when entering marriage in a timely manner.

■ Ye Wenzhen

When studying in the United States, I came into contact with Western studies on the relationship between marriage and expectations. The main point of view is that in different people of marriage, cohabitation, and solo, their health level and life length are decreased in order, that is, marriage has some in marriage, that is, marriage has some. It is conducive to maintaining relatively good physical and mental health and lengthening the length of life survival.

To this day, when more young people take the initiative or are forced to choose a late marriage and unmarried lifestyle, such as statistics show that from 2013 to 2020, my country's rough marriage rate decreased from 9.9 ‰ to 5.8 ‰, and China Showing a trend of marriage, can it be found from the perspective of health and longevity to find a reason to actively enter the marriage relationship and expand the occasional life in a timely manner?

Marriage and expected life span: research process

The earliest attention to the relationship between marriage and expectations began in British physician William Fall. At that time, the French mathematician Derpari, a French mathematician who had studied the longevity of monks and nuns at the time, said, "Compared with those who have not lived and unique. , The Life Single 'has a longer life. However, some people's views are from him. They are worried that the depression of the physiological function will be damaged and healthy'. "After a series of observations made by France, Faer In 1858, the article "The Influence of Marriage on the French Death" was published. For the first time, it confirmed that "marriage is a kind of wealth for health. Compared with the married person, the health of a single person is more likely to be harmed. "

Later, the academic circles borrowed the tracking data of the queue and the country's other statistics to conduct research in more countries and gradually expanded to the following three issues. First, is it a special case of a single longevity than a single longevity or a common phenomenon of all countries? Second, does marriage affect men and women on the front of health and longevity? Third, will the spouse's age group strengthen or weaken this effect?

The results of many countries have shown that the Manchu marriage is indeed the secret of healthier and longer life. For example, the National Bureau of Statistics of the United Kingdom stated that surveys of the 5 million adult dead in England and Wales 20 years old between 2010 and 2019 show that the mortality rate of single men and women is twice as high as married men and women. Another example is that the Landney Medical Center of New York University in the United States has found that married men are 46%lower than those of unmarried men. According to a survey data from the US Department of Health, the married person lives longer than the single, and as the age increases, the difference is more obvious. For example, among the married men aged 25 to 34, the mortality rate is 0.15 %. It is 0.35 %; the mortality rate of married men aged 35 to 44 is 0.31 %, and the celibate is as high as 0.83 %.

The author of "Dali", Nicholas Kristekis, pointed out that this positive impact brought by marriage is more beneficial to men. A random sampling study also found that marriage can help men prolong their seven -year life, but they can only help women extend their life expectancy for two years. In terms of spouse's age combination, previous studies have shown that the marriage combination of old husbands and wife and wife and husband is good for health and longevity, but recent research found that the greater the age gap between husband and wife, the shorter the expectations of his wife. For women, the best marriage is the same age. Finding the old will shorten life. However, the research in this area has not yet formed a consensus, especially for the operating mechanism. It remains to be discussed.

Marriage and expected life span: influence mechanism

Why is marriage good for health and promotion? Or how does marriage play a role in the influence mechanism? More scholars believe that, from the perspective of biology or psychological discipline perspective, the spouse can provide more emotional support and resource expansion than single, because "the establishment of a marriage relationship will allow the social relationships of both parties to the marriage between the marriage parties If the network is fused, both of them can enter a broader social network, know more friends, neighbors, relatives, etc. Marriage is a healthy wealth that can significantly improve the health level of the parties and help you reduce your heart rate. , Improve immune function, reduce loneliness and depression, and extend the life of people. "For example, the Randney Medical Center of New York University discovered that the risk of cardiovascular disease in married men and women was reduced by 5%; and Duke University was 252 patients for 25 years. The results of the tracking survey show that the life span can be extended for two years twice a week, and often having sex can reduce the risk of early death by 50%; and a study involving 298 older people 65 to 74 years old found that the married person's telomeration (end end (end ending The longer the grains, the slower the aging of people) is obviously longer than those who are not married.

Some experts believe that there are partners in the family to take care of each other to improve the regularity and diversification of daily life. When discovering diseases or symptoms, they can urge and accompany each other to do inspections. Family harmony can relieve stress and increase fun. It is good for longevity.

In addition, research by the New England Centennial Elderly Research Association also shows that the impact of marriage (or partner in life) on the expected life depends on the gender of marriage parties, or it is an important intermediary variable. American population statisticsist Lee Lillard believes that "the benefits of marriage to men are mainly social connections and family services provided by their wives, so that they have a wider social world and a more comfortable home life. Reform the unhealthy behavior of husbands, men's health has been improved due to marriage. On the contrary, marriage improves women's health and the way of growing longevity is simpler and indirect. "Lillard's research also found," Different mechanisms for men and women, And the different contents of interchange between men and women lead to different models of health income when men and women get married. When men get married, their health risks have fallen steeply, and women will not immediately get healthy benefits because they get married. "Marriage and expected life expectancy: happiness sharing

The above analysis tells us that from the perspective of the relationship between marriage and healthy and longevity, the positive relationship between them is relatively obvious, and it is worth looking forward to entering marriage in a timely manner. Of course, improve the emotional content and quality of life of marriage, simultaneously enhance the sense of gain and happiness of both parties, and to maintain the equality, vitality and stability of the marriage relationship together. It is indispensable. The positive effect is fully released and lasting. We can focus on at least three aspects:

In view of the fact that society attaches great importance to the health and publicity of marriage, it is necessary to combine the understanding of related social medicine knowledge, promote multidisciplinary cooperation research, deepen the relationship between marriage and longevity, especially the understanding of the influence mechanism of marriage, expand the contemporary contemporary contemporary marriage The role, such as promoting family construction and personal value realization, enlarging occupational development, gaining happiness, eased social risks, and personal impact, etc., and fully release the health value of marriage.

It is necessary to integrate the good marriage relationship and the positive influence of healthy and longevity into family education, so that young people to have a marriage from a young age to be conducive to health and longevity, and increase their favor and longing for marriage. School education and social value guidance must be timely to undertake family education in a timely manner, and continue to strengthen joint efforts in terms of marriage concepts, knowledge and abilities, help young people to firmly establish an advanced marriage concept, combust the enthusiasm for marriage, effectively use the public welfare and standardized society Marriage services enable them to enter marriage in time, increase the marriage rate, and have the opportunity to experience and verify in marriage life, so that the positive role between marriage and health is spread.

It is necessary to gather various forces of family, schools, governments, and society. On the one hand, the "996" working system is completely adjusted to allow young people to have more time and energy to devote themselves to marriage life. On the other hand, reduce the material costs of marriage construction and operation. They have more resources for emotional moisturizing and harmonious marriage in terms of relationships, and then through high -quality, full of sense of gain and happiness, not only offset the negative effects of low -quality marriage relationship on health and longevity, but also can also be able to Magnify the positive role of marriage, maintain the gender equality of marriage and health, and form a benign interaction between marriage and health and longevity. It is like cherishing and caring for health, pursuing and realizing longevity to love, treat and care for our marriage.

(The author is the vice president of the Chinese Women's Research Association, a special professor of Shandong Women's College)

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