Check out this new interesting publication from Bogza and Pierce in Family Relations titled "Anxiety during the transition to parenthood: Partners' cognitive and emotional experience"

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Objective This qualitative study aimed to describe mothers and fathers' cognitive and emotional responses to their coparent's anxiety during the transition to parenthood. Background The transition ...

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Heading to PAA 2026? Find a schedule of presentations using NCHAT data below!

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NCHAT Presentations: 2026 Population Association of America Meeting St. Louis, Missouri May 6-9 Date Author(s) Program Number/Time Session Title Thursday, May 7 Lee Brady 12: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Struc...

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Happy Tuesday! Check out this publication from Sarah A. Alkhatib, Rohit Balasundaram, Kaeli Johnson, Stacey B. Griner, Malinee Neelamegam, and Erika L. Thompson in Health Behavior Research titled "Sociocultural Correlates of Contraceptive Method Use Among Partnered U.S. Women: Findings from NCHAT"

Check out this interesting read from de Lena and Boertien titled, "A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings"

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective This article aims to understand how relationship status is associated with earnings among LGB people. Background Previous research has found that marriage is related to higher earnings f...

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Happy Monday everyone! Check out this new, crucial report from Bouton and Redfield from the Williams Institute.

Removal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity from Federal Data Collections

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Happy Monday! Check out this new NCHAT publication.

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

<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...

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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."

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."

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 (...

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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.

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.

<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...

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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.

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 ...

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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.

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!

<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...

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Happy Friday eve, everyone! We would like to hear from YOU about YOUR NCHAT news! If you have published or presented with NCHAT, please let us know at the following link:

NCHAT New Publications Form

Please enter any new publications using NCHAT data that you would like to include in NCHAT's Newsletter. For other types of announcements (e.g., call for proposals), please use our Newsletter Submiss...

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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. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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....

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/ link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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!

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

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...

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

The National Couples' Health and Time Study@nchatstudy.bsky.social · last yr.

Be sure to check out another NCHAT project at the Family Demography poster session at 4pm in the Ballrooms! Great work by Emma Goldstein, Alex VanBergen and @clairekampdush.bsky.social about Digital Distractions and Parental Well-Being using our fabulous time diary data!

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...

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...

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

One last NCHAT poster presentation today at 10:30am in the Ballrooms! Go check out the poster by @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social, Alex VanBergen, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social on Collecting Dyadic Data on LGBTQ+ Partnerships!