Table 5.
Self-reported past-year happiness levels versus past-year sexlessness status with multinomial odds ratios of happiness levels among healthy adults a
| Happiness levels outcomes | Males | Females | ||||
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| Had sex | Sexless | ORadj (95% CI)b | Had sex | Sexless | ORadj (95% CI)b | |
| Married participants | n = 2739 | n = 190 | n = 2959 | n = 183 | ||
| Very happy | 40.5% | 42.6% | Referent outcome | 43.0% | 30.6% | Referent outcome |
| Pretty happy | 54.1% | 51.1% | 1.02 (0.61, 1.71) | 51.5% | 59.0% | 0.68 (0.40, 1.16) |
| Not too happy | 5.4% | 6.3% | 1.13 (0.41, 3.14) | 5.5% | 10.4% | 0.67 (0.23, 2.00) |
| Never-married participants | n = 1094 | n = 317 | n = 1007 | n = 324 | ||
| Very happy | 20.8% | 18.9% | Referent outcome | 23.2% | 23.8% | Referent outcome |
| Pretty happy | 65.5% | 65.9% | 1.08 (0.66, 1.78) | 62.7% | 63.3% | 0.73 (0.44, 1.20) |
| Not too happy | 13.6% | 15.1% | 0.93 (0.45, 1.89) | 14.1% | 13.0% | 0.61 (0.28, 1.30) |
| Divorced/separated participants | n = 681 | n = 145 | n = 895 | n = 435 | ||
| Very happy | 17.0% | 20.7% | Referent outcome | 18.7% | 20.9% | Referent outcome |
| Pretty happy | 66.8% | 61.4% | 1.08 (0.53, 2.19) | 64.4% | 62.1% | 1.56 (0.97, 2.50) |
| Not too happy | 16.2% | 17.9% | 0.65 (0.26, 1.64) | 17.0% | 17.0% | 1.36 (0.69, 2.68) |
| Widowed participants | n = 79 | n = 117 | n = 142 | n = 771 | ||
| Very happy | 30.4% | 19.7% | Referent outcome | 26.8% | 25.3% | Referent outcome |
| Pretty happy | 58.2% | 56.4% | 0.39 (0.09, 1.64) | 48.6% | 60.6% | 0.66 (0.28, 1.53) |
| Not too happy | 11.4% | 23.9% | 0.52 (0.06, 4.79) | 24.6% | 14.1% | 1.54 (0.53, 4.45) |
a
Participants with baseline health reported as “poor” were excluded from analysis
b
Adjusted for age (18–34, 35–49, 50–64, 65+), household income, education, race, and social engagement levels (see Table 3 for categories)