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Overview

Susan L. Brown is affiliated with Bowling Green State University in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the social sciences, with notable contributions spanning sociology and political science, demography, gender studies, clinical psychology, and social psychology.

Their work focuses extensively on intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, family dynamics and relationships, and demographic trends with attention to gender preferences. Other areas of study include gender, labor, and family dynamics, grief, bereavement, and mental health, health disparities and outcomes, as well as attachment and relationship dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for Susan L. Brown include:

  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Bone

Key recent papers by the researcher include:

  • The Graying of Divorce: A Half Century of Change (2022) published in The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • The Economic Consequences of Gray Divorce for Women and Men (2020) published in The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Ethnic and gender-specific incidence rates for hip fractures in South Africa: A multi-centre study (2020) published in Bone
  • Midlife Marital Dissolution and the Onset of Cognitive Impairment (2020) published in The Gerontologist
  • Consequences of Later-Life Divorce and Widowhood for Adult Well-Being: A Call for the Convalescence Model (2020) published in Journal of Family Theory & Review

Susan L. Brown frequently collaborates with other researchers, including I-Fen Lin, Wendy D. Manning, Kagan A. Mellencamp, Krista K. Payne, and Matthew R. Wright.

The research output shows strong interdisciplinary engagement, linking family dynamics with aging, health outcomes, and social factors. The prominence of publications in gerontology and family studies journals indicates a focus on later-life relational changes and their social and economic impacts.

Best Publications

  • Cohabitation versus marriage : A comparison of relationship quality

    Susan L. Brown;Alan Booth

  • Family Structure, Family Processes, and Adolescent Delinquency: The Significance of Parental Absence Versus Parental Gender

    Stephen Demuth;Susan L. Brown

  • Family Structure and Child Well‐Being: The Significance of Parental Cohabitation

    Susan L. Brown

  • The gray divorce revolution: rising divorce among middle-aged and older adults, 1990-2010.

    Susan L. Brown;I-Fen Lin

  • The effect of union type on psychological well-being: depression among cohabitors versus marrieds.

    Susan L. Brown

  • Marriage and Child Well-Being: Research and Policy Perspectives

    Susan L. Brown

  • Family Structure Transitions and Adolescent Well-being

    Susan L. Brown

  • Union Transitions Among Cohabitors: The Significance of Relationship Assessments and Expectations

    Susan L. Brown

  • Children’s Economic Well-Being in Married and Cohabiting Parent Families

    Wendy D. Manning;Susan Brown

  • Race-ethnic differences in marital quality and divorce

    Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda;Susan L. Brown

  • Two Decades of Stability and Change in Age at First Union Formation

    Wendy D. Manning;Susan L. Brown;Krista K. Payne

  • Family Boundary Ambiguity and the Measurement of Family Structure: The Significance of Cohabitation

    Susan L. Brown;Wendy D. Manning

  • Moving from cohabitation to marriage: effects on relationship quality

    Susan L Brown

  • Family Structure and Child Well-being: Integrating Family Complexity

    Susan L. Brown;Wendy D. Manning;J. Bart Stykes

  • The Significance of Nonmarital Cohabitation: Marital Status and Mental Health Benefits Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults

    Susan L Brown;Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda;Gary R Lee

  • Family Structure, Family Processes, and Adolescent Smoking and Drinking.

    Susan L. Brown;Lauren N. Rinelli

  • Cohabitation Among Older Adults: A National Portrait

    Susan L. Brown;Gary R. Lee;Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda

  • Relationship Quality Dynamics of Cohabiting Unions

    Susan L. Brown

  • Relationship violence in young adulthood: A comparison of daters, cohabitors, and marrieds

    Susan L. Brown;Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda

  • Unmarried Boomers Confront Old Age: A National Portrait

    I-Fen Lin;Susan L. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Wendy D. Manning
Wendy D. Manning Bowling Green State University
Alan Booth
Alan Booth Pennsylvania State University
Gary R. Lee
Gary R. Lee Bowling Green State University
Deborah Carr
Deborah Carr Boston University
Susan M. McHale
Susan M. McHale Pennsylvania State University

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