Childhood and Midlife Cultural Awareness and Activity Engagement Among Korean Married Couples.

Objectives: Cultural reproduction theory posits that cultural resources are transmitted across generations, suggesting early parental influences on cultural experiences in adulthood. Further, cultural resources may be transferred within the same generation-through significant others, such as spouses. This study investigates cultural engagement among middle-aged adults, focusing on individual and spousal influences of childhood cultural engagement.

"Till Death Do Us Part", Dying Matters, Beyond the Individual: Advance Care Planning Patterns Among Older Couples.

Objective: We examined the formal and informal advance care planning (ACP) patterns of older couples and determined how these patterns are associated with individual and spousal characteristics.

Methods: Using data from the 2014 and 2016 Health and Retirement Study, we performed latent class analysis to identify ACP patterns and multinomial regression models to describe characteristics of older couples ( = 2195 couples).

Results: We identified four ACP patterns: high engaging couple (47%); high engaging husband-low engaging wife (11%); high engaging wife-low engaging husband (11%); and low engaging couple (31%).

Dyadic Profiles of Health Behaviors Among Korean Baby Boomer Couples.

To address the issue of whether health behaviors are concordant within couples, this study identified dyadic profiles of health behaviors among Korean baby boomer couples (). : We analyzed a sample of 1,092 middle-aged couples from the (2014). Latent class analysis and multinomial regression models were conducted to describe underlying health behavior profiles.

Health Behavior Profiles of Korean Baby Boomers.

This study identified profiles of health behaviors among Korean baby boomers and examined a set of individual characteristics associated with these latent profiles. We analyzed a sample of 4,047 middle-aged adults (aged 53-61) from the Korean Baby Boomer Panel Study (2014). Latent profile analysis was used to uncover distinct health behavior profiles, and multinomial regression was performed to investigate the associations between health behavior profiles and predisposing, enabling, and need factors-following from the behavioral models of health behaviors and health services use.