Nadine F. Marks Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies Phone: 608-263-4020  Fax: 608-265-1172 E-mail: marks@ssc.wisc.edu

Education

• 1990, Ph.D., Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1978, M.A., Sociology Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
• 1974, B.A., Sociology Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA

Psychosocial Influences on Physical and Mental Health in Adulthood

Professor Marks’ research is motivated by an interest in how a number of psychosocial factors—psychological factors, socioeconomic status, social relationship quality, caregiving, family structure, spirituality, the work/family interface—influence adult physical and mental health and development. Additionally, she examines how gender and age moderate the importance of these various factors in determining health. Life course and ecological theoretical perspectives guide her work. She works with the research teams collecting data for the Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey and the National Survey of Families and Households, as well as the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS). Professor Marks has been the recipient of a NIH FIRST Award, and has recently participated as a Project Director for one of the projects funded as part of the UW Center on Mind/Body Interactions. Her current program of research continuing a study of “Social Inequalities, Psychosocial Factors, and Health,” is funded by the National Institute on Aging. She was a Network Associate with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Successful Midlife Development, which developed the first wave of the MIDUS study.

Representative Publications

Choi, H., & Marks, N. F. (forthcoming). Transition to caregiving, marital disagreement,and psychological well-being: A prospective U.S. national study. Journal of Family Issues.

Marks, N. F., & Greenfield, E. A.. (forthcoming). Family relationships, generativity, and adult psychological well-being. In M.C. Smith & T. G. Reio, Jr., Handbook of research on adult development and learning. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum

Marks, N.F., Bumpass, L.L., Jun, H. (2004). Family roles and well-being during the middle life course. In O.G. Brim, C.D. Ryff & R. Kessler (Eds.), How healthy are we? A national study of well-being at midlife (pp. 514-549). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Greenfield , E.A., & Marks, N.F. (2004). Formal volunteering as a protective factor for older adults’ psychological well-being. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 59B, S258-S264.

Marks, N.F., Lambert, J.D., & Choi, H. (2002). Transitions to caregiving, gender, and psychological well-being: Prospective evidence from a U.S. national study. Journal of Marriage and Family, 64, 657-667.

Marks, N.F., & Choi, H. (2002). Social inequalities, psychological well-being, and health: Longitudinal evidence from a U.S. national study. Research on the Sociology of Health Care, 20, 79-106.

Grzywacz, J.G., & Marks, N.F. (2001). Social inequalities, work, family and exercise: Toward an ecological perspective. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 42, 202-220.

Marks, N.F. and Shinberg, D.S. (1998). Socioeconomic Differences in Hormone Therapy. American Journal of Epidemiology, 148(6): 581-593.

Marmot, M.G., Fuhrer, R., Ettner, S.L., Marks, N.F., Bumpass, L.L. and Ryff, C.R. (1998). Contribution of psychosocial Factors to Socioeconomic Differences in Health. Milbank Quarterly, 76:403-440.

Marks, N.F. and Lambert, J.D. (1998). Marital Status Continuity and Change Among Young and Midlife Adults: Longitudinal Effects on Psychological Well- Being. Journal of Family Issues, 19:652-686.

Marks, N.F. (1998). Does It Hurt to Care? Caregiving, Work-Family Conflict, and Midlife Well-Being. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60:951-966.

Marks, N.F. and Shinberg, D.S. (1997). Socioeconomic Differences in Hysterectomy: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. American Journal of Public Health, 87:1507-1514.

Marmot, M.G., Ryff, C.D., Bumpass, L.L., Shipley, M. & Marks, N.F. (1997). Social inequalities in health--a major public health problem. Social Science and Medicine, 44, 901-910.

Marks, N.F. (1996). Caregiving Across the Lifespan: National Prevalence and Predictors. Family Relations, 45, 27-36.