Higher psychological well-being among married persons may be because of social selection in marriage or of marriage effects. Findings from approximately 9,000 persons revealed that predictive power of well-being measures remained stable throughout 2- to 4-year period. Concluded that selection may play important part in producing association…

Data from an extensive survey of the entire adult population of one rural Norwegian county indicate that married persons had the highest level of subjective well-being, followed by widowed persons. Among the formerly married, cohabitation was associated with substantially higher levels of well-being, but the importance of cohabitation depended on…