Marital dissolution is a stressful transition that can lead to unhealthy coping strategies, including smoking and drinking. Using fixed effect linear probability models to assess health behavior changes, we analyzed 6,607 women and 6,689 men in the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia data set who were either continuously married or experienced marital separation between 2002 and 2020. We observed 1,376 separations (744 women, 632 men). We found that drinking and smoking increases leading to and in the year of separation, with variability by gender, education, and parenthood status. From Cox proportional hazards models, we showed that among individuals who smoked (N = 337) or drank (N = 756) in the year of separation, cessation was most likely for the highly educated and/or women. Unhealthy coping mechanisms throughout marital dissolution suggests a need for targeted support to those separating, especially for men and those with children and lower education.
Professionals increasingly encounter tools aimed at rationalizing and standardizing their work. Existing research largely conceptualizes their responses to these tools on a continuum from professional resistance to managerial control. But the institutional logics perspective and emerging empirical evidence suggest more varied responses and diverse, possibly non-zero-sum, outcomes. Using survey data from 1,116 physicians in China's public hospitals, we systematically examined physicians' reactions to pathway implementation and the impacts on clinical autonomy and job satisfaction. Cluster analysis identified four response types: (a) ignoring, where physicians avoided pathways and maintained autonomy; (b) coerced, where imposed pathways reduced autonomy and satisfaction; (c) decoupling, where pathways were adopted superficially, preserving autonomy; and (d) embracing, where physicians actively participated in pathway implementation and enforcement, experiencing high satisfaction and autonomy. The findings help broaden the conceptualization of professionals' reactions to rationalizing tools, uncover multiple pathways to clinical autonomy, and illustrate how professionals navigate institutional complexity in ever-evolving environments.

