The National Couples' Health and Time Study

Sexual minority adults exhibit greater inflammation than heterosexual adults in the context of depressive symptoms and anxiety: Pathways to health disparities Sexual minority individuals, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other non-heterosexual (LGB + ) adults have significantly greater risk for mental a…

Published by Lisa Christian, Rebecca Andridge, Juan Peng, Nithya Kasibhatla, Thomas McDade, Tessa Blevins, Steve Cole, Wendy Manning, and Claire Kamp Dush in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

Happy Monday! Check out this new NCHAT publication.

<em>Family Relations</em> | Wiley Online Library Objective This study examines the association between sexual minority identities, stress, and three dimensions of romantic relationships: satisfaction, conflict, and instability. Background A majo...

Check out this new NCHAT publication! Chandler Fairbanks published "Bisexual identity, stress, and romantic relationships" in Family Relations.

Happy Friday! Check out this new read from Eeckhaut et al. in Demography titled "Socioeconomic Differences in Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use for Achieving U.S. Women's Family Planning Goals: 'Right Time' Births."

Structural Cissexism, Mental Health, and Unmet Health Care Needs Among Gender-Diverse Adolescents in the United States | AJPH | Vol. 116 Issue 2 Objectives. To examine the associations between state-level structural cissexism and both mental health and unmet mental health care needs among a large national sample of gender-diverse adolescents (...

Happy Thursday! Check out this interesting read from Lee et al. in AJPH titled "Structural Cissexism, Mental Health, and Unmet Health Care Needs Among Gender-Diverse Adolescents in the United States."

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Call for papers alert! The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships journal is organizing a special issue under the theme of "Singlehood in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Identity, Normativity and Inequality in Contemporary Societies" with guest editors Drs. Dries Van Gasse and Dimitri Mortelmans.

<em>Family Relations</em> | Wiley Online Library Objective This study examined how racial discrimination was related to Asian Americans' coping and adaptive mechanisms in intimate relationships, specifically negative conflict and perceived partner...

Happy New Year everyone! Check out this new NCHAT publication titled "Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of racial discrimination in Asian Americans' intimate relationships" by Drs. Chengfei Jiao and Kayla Reed-Fitzke.

A Latent Profile Analysis of Multidimensional Sexual Stigma in LGB Adults: Subgroup Differences and Associations with Distress and Substance Use - Sexuality Research and Social Policy Introduction Stigma has long been cited as a risk factor for sexual minority health disparities and is inherently a multifaceted construct, encompassing a wide range of processes. As such, it must be ...

Happy December! Cozy up with a new read and check out this interesting recent publication titled, "A Latent Profile Analysis of Multidimensional Sexual Stigma in LGB Adults: Subgroup Differences and Associations with Distress and Substance Use" from Pushpanadh et al.

Call for Papers alert! The 2026 International Association for Relationship Research conference will be held from Wednesday, July 8, to Sunday, July 12, in Glasgow, Scotland. Submissions are due by December 1, 2025.

Happy Thursday! We are thrilled to share an exciting data update! Along with the returning Wave 1 respondents, NCHAT Wave 3 will include a refreshment sample of more than 900 young adults aged 20 to 29!

Call for papers alert! The Population Research and Policy Review journal is organizing a special issue under the theme of "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context" with guest editors Dr. Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Dr. Sarah R. Hayford, and Dr. Leslie Root. Submission deadline is March 1, 2026.

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective The objective of this study was to examine the relative and compounded associations between two dimensions of racism-related stress (interpersonal racial discrimination and vicarious racis...

New NCHAT publication alert! TeKisha M. Rice Wallace, Chalandra M. Bryant, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social published "Racism-Related Stress and the Undermining of Black Romantic Relationships" in Journal of Family and Marriage. Congratulations!

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We are incredibly excited to announce this project! The data will be used to tests of mechanisms linking stress and health that can be used to address health disparities, and importantly, assays and epigenetic biological clock data will be made publicly available. Stay tuned for more information.

The project "Comprehensive Biological Data in NCHAT BIO: Chronic Stress, Inflammation, and Epigenetic Aging" with Drs. Lisa Christian and Claire Kamp Dush has received funding! The goal of this project is to collect biological data to measure inflammation and epigenetic aging in NCHAT respondents.

If you haven't already, check out Wave 2 of the NCHAT data! It is now available at ICPSR. This short follow-up survey includes responses from 2,723 primary respondents and 755 partners from Wave 1. Learn more about it here: www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/DSDR/stu...

Happy Sunday! Check out this recent NCHAT publication from @chrisajulian.bsky.social, Hannah Tessler, @wendymanning.bsky.social, Alexandra VanBergen, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social.
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4% of marriages each year are now to same-sex marriage! 10 years of love wins! www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour...

There were 63,687 new marriages among same-sex couples in 2019, compared to 60,046 in 2021 and 72,835 in 2023. Check out our new Family Profile on newlywed same-sex couples here: doi.org/10.25035/ncf....

As fertility rates in the U.S. and elsewhere continue to fall, standard demographic theories that focus on objective micro- and macroeconomic conditions seem unable to explain these trends. New approaches, such as the Narrative of the Future framework and the “uncertainty” paradigm, have emphasized the potential for subjective perceptions to be important for fertility decision-making, net of objective characteristics. We use a unique new source of data—the National Couples’ Health and Time Study, a nationally representative sample of cohabiting and married adults interviewed between September 2020 and April 2021—to examine short-term fertility intentions and better understand if and how including a general subjective evaluation (overall life satisfaction) and domain-specific subjective evaluations (economic stress and relationship satisfaction) are related to fertility intentions. We find that most respondents did not intend to have a child in the next year, though about one in seven respondents were unsure about if/when to have a(nother) child. Net of objective characteristics, overall life satisfaction was positively associated with short-term intentions to have a child, and greater economic stress was linked to uncertainty about short-term intentions. We did not observe a link in multivariable models between relationship satisfaction and intentions. Further, models stratified by parenthood indicated that both objective characteristics and subjective perceptions were more strongly linked to first-birth intentions than higher-parity intentions. Our results add to the growing body of work suggesting that (a) subjective perceptions have modest but significant links to fertility decision-making and (b) uncertainty in decision-making is important to consider.

Another new paper on fertility intentions! Using @nchatstudy.bsky.social data, we consider whether cohabiting & married people's short-term fertility intentions are subjective perceptions of well-being.

The answer? Yes! 1/

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Kristen Gustafson, Ph.D., successfully defended her dissertation titled, "Partnered Plurisexual People's Psychological Well-Being and Relationship Quality: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Composition."

Alex Bates, Ph.D., successfully defended his dissertation titled, "Multilevel predictors of healthcare discrimination, mental health, and physiological stress in sexual and gender minority populations."

We have two new doctors on our team!! Dr. Alex Bates (UMN) and Dr. Kristen Gustafson (BGSU) successfully defended their dissertations earlier this month! Both have been NCHAT GRAs and have been crucial and productive members of our team! See below for their dissertation titles!

Two members of the NCHAT team were at the SBE CCC meeting in Michigan earlier this month! Dr. Ann Meier presented a project about childcare, device use, and parental well-being during the pandemic and Dr. Alex VanBergen presented a poster and won the meeting's best poster award! Great work!

Links between partnering, relationship quality and mental well-being among sexual minority and straight individuals We extend prior research on associations between being single versus being romantically partnered and mental well-being to include lesbian/gay, bisexual, and straight individuals. We examine, withi...

New NCHAT publication!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congrats to Emma and team for winning their session's poster award as well!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Population Data Virtual Office Hours hosted by IPUMS. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Join us for virtual office hours on Wednesday, April 16 to chat with IPUMS data experts about your questions. This month we also have special data guest NCHAT. Registration is required to attend virtu...

Have any specific questions about accessing and using NCHAT data? Connect with the NCHAT team at our upcoming virtual office hours TOMORROW (April 16) from 10:00-11:30am CT (in conjunction with IPUMS). Registration is required, but you can drop in anytime! umn.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

That’s a wrap on #PAA2025! Safe travels getting home, everyone! Follow this account for updates regarding NCHAT publications and data releases!