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Non-employment, gender norms and the risk of couple separation in eastern and western Germany. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Kathrin Stief
This paper examines and compares the impact of non-employment - more precisely female and male unemployment and female labour-market inactivity - on cohabiting and married couples' separation risk in eastern and western Germany. Although Germany has experienced substantial changes in the spheres of family and labour market in recent decades, differences between the former East and West Germany persist
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Middle-aged adults' career trajectories and later-life financial security: evidence from Korea. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Seong Ji Jeong,Su Jung Choi,Joshua Hawley
This study explored how middle-aged workers' career trajectory patterns were associated with their financial security later in life. Grounded by a life course perspective, we approached their career trajectories by considering a 'human agency within structure' framework. We explored sequences of employment status, starting with their lifetime main job to subsequent jobs after contractual retirement
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Income inequality in later years: occupational trajectories or initial social characteristics? Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Olga Ganjour,Jacques-Antoine Gauthier,Jean-Marie Le Goff,Eric D Widmer
This study focuses on the constitution of financial reserves in Switzerland from a longitudinal perspective. Personal income after retirement derives from financial reserves whose constitution depends both on positional factors, such as sex and birth cohorts, and processual factors, such as occupational trajectories, in the institutional context of the Swiss pension system (structural factors). We
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Life course development following childhood adversity: methods and findings from the Christchurch Health and Development Study. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Mary Buchanan,Giles Newton-Howes,Geri McLeod,Joseph Boden
Aim To review research developments on childhood adversity in the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) since 2001. Method Narrative overview of the published work of the CHDS since 2001 in the context of research methods. Results The CHDS research has continued to evolve as the cohort has aged. A clear focus has remained on the measurement of outcomes associated with psychosocial risk factors
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Determinants of participation in a longitudinal survey during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of a low-infection country. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Nicholas Biddle,Kate Sollis
A large-scale crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, has the potential to affect non-response in cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys. This study utilises a longitudinal survey, conducted prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, to examine the factors associated with participation in longitudinal surveys during the COVID-19 period, and how this has changed from prior to the pandemic. We find
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Exploring the reasons for labour market gender inequality a year into the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK cohort studies. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Bożena Wielgoszewska,Alex Bryson,Monica Costa Dias,Francesca Foliano,Heather Joshi,David Wilkinson
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unexpected disruptions to Western countries which affected women more adversely than men. Previous studies suggest that gender differences are attributable to: women being over-represented in the most affected sectors of the economy, women's labour market disadvantage as compared to their partners, and mothers taking a bigger share childcare responsibilities following
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An evaluation of self-reported material well-being using latent Markov models with covariates. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Ewa Genge
A household's financial satisfaction is one of the most significant factors driving subjective well-being. However, Poland ranks close to the lowest position, 22nd out of the 28 EU members, in self-reported financial status. The paper investigates the problem of determining patterns of Polish households' behaviour and shows the evolution of the subjective assessment of financial situation based on
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Natural hazards and life course consequences in a time of pandemic. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Ben Edwards,Marc A Scott
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Korean mothers' career aspirations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal qualitative study. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Youngeun Nam,Christie Sennott
Working mothers face challenges in pursuing their career aspirations due to work-family conflict. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has posed added challenges for working mothers by increasing care demands while also causing numerous health, economic and social disruptions. In this paper, we examine the impact of COVID-19 on Korean working mothers' career aspirations. We employ a longitudinal qualitative
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A dynamic perspective on the evolution of perceived stress levels in Switzerland: drivers before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Hannah S Klaas,Ursina Kuhn,Valérie-Anne Ryser,Jan-Erik Refle,Robin Tillmann,Marieke Voorpostel
As a major socio-historical event affecting different aspects of life, the COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to study how different population groups adapt. We investigate the impact of this crisis on the evolution of perceived stress in the short and medium term in Switzerland, using data of the Swiss Household Panel from 2016 to early 2021, which include annual measures of perceived
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Parental and family determinants of the Flynn effect. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Kristiina Rajaleid,Denny Vågerö
Research about the Flynn effect, the secular rise in IQ, is heavily based on conscript data from successive male birth cohorts. This inevitably means that two distinct phenomena are mixed: fertility differences by IQ group ('compositional Flynn effect'), and any difference between parents and children ('within-family Flynn effect'). Both will influence trends in cognitive ability. We focused on the
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Comparison of two approaches in multichannel sequence analysis using the Swiss Household Panel. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Kevin Emery,André Berchtold
Sequence analysis is an established approach to study life courses. When several life domains are considered simultaneously, multichannel sequence analysis (MSA) and the extended alphabet (EA) approach are the most frequently used strategies. We compare these two methods using real data composed of four life domains (cohabitational status, children, professional status, health), and we focus on clustering
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Ruptured school trajectories: understanding the impact of COVID-19 on school dropout, socio-emotional and academic learning using a longitudinal design. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Stephen Bayley,Darge Wole Meshesha,Pauline Rose,Tassew Woldehanna,Louise Yorke,Paul Ramchandani
This paper presents the findings of longitudinal research conducted in Ethiopia exploring the effects of COVID-19 school closures on children's holistic learning, including their socio-emotional and academic learning. It draws on data from over 2,000 pupils captured in 2019 and 2021 to compare primary school children's dropout and learning before and after school closures. The study adapts self-reporting
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Perceived discrimination in the workplace and mental health from early adulthood to midlife. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Xiaowen Han,Jeylan Mortimer,Tom VanHeuvelen
Considerable evidence demonstrates that perceiving oneself as an object of discrimination has negative consequences for mental health. However, little is known about whether this experience is more or less harmful in distinct phases of the life course, consistent with the life course principle of timing; or whether, in accord with the principle of lifespan development, it has long-term implications
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Predicting the stability of early employment with its timing and childhood social and health-related predictors: a mixture Markov model approach. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Satu Helske,Markus Keski-Säntti,Juha Kivelä,Aapo Juutinen,Antti Kääriälä,Mika Gissler,Marko Merikukka,Tea Lallukka
To extend work careers, it is important to focus on all working-aged people including young adults. The aim of this study was to identify typical patterns of work participation among young adults after their first entry into the labour market and to examine whether the timing of entry together with parental and own socio-economic position and health predict early work participation. More in-depth understanding
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The many faces of education within life course studies, changing data collection methods, and a protocol for data linkage and model specification to more holistically improve health and well-being in adolescence and beyond. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Elizabeth C Cooksey
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The long-term effects of school education on further education: a longitudinal view on motivation and behaviour in youth and adulthood. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Matthias Sandau
As school learning should enable people to self-determine their own lives, its long-lasting relevance for participation in further education is an essential outcome. Contemporary adult education research shows that beliefs and memories from one's school years have an impact on the motivation to pursue further education in working life. However, almost no longitudinal research exists that investigates
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Adaptations to a cohort study in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from Growing Up in Ireland. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Lisa Kelly,Aisling Murray,Amanda Quail,Eoin McNamara
Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) is the national longitudinal study of children and young people in the Republic of Ireland and has followed two cohorts for over ten years to date: Cohort '98 who were recruited into the study at age nine years and Cohort '08, recruited at age nine months. The study aims to describe the lives of Irish children and young people in terms of their development, with a view to
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Changes in sibling similarity in education among Finnish cohorts born in 1950-89: the contribution of paternal and maternal education. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Hannu Lahtinen,Pekka Martikainen,Lasse Tarkiainen
Among the many social characteristics that run in the family, education is one of the most strongly persistent. The long-term changes in educational reproduction within families and across generations and the gender-specific drivers of these changes remain partially unclear. Using population data for all Finnish siblings and their parents, we assessed the level of and trends in the intergenerational
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Not participating in education, employment or training (NEET): hope to mitigate new social risks in the UK? Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Emily C Murphy,Craig Holmes,Ken Mayhew
Young people not participating in education, employment or training (NEET) are a key policy concern in Europe. In this study, we bring forward the idea of hope as a form of life course agency to examine whether hopeful thinking plays a protective role against the risk of being NEET in the context of the British welfare state. Hope is conceptualised as multidimensional: being a temporally embedded,
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Inequalities in children's skills on primary school entry in Ireland and Scotland: do home learning environment and early childhood childcare explain these differences? Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Emer Smyth,Adriana Duta
This article draws on the Growing Up in Ireland study and the Scottish sample of the Millennium Cohort Study to explore the factors influencing inequalities in children's cognitive skills on entry to primary education. It adopts a multidimensional comparative approach, which directly compares the effects of parental education and household income on several cognitive outcomes (vocabulary, language
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Divergent trajectories: three dimensions of child poverty during the Great Recession in Ireland. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Stefanie Sprong,Ryan Alberto Gibbons,Yekaterina Chzhen
While research has investigated the effects of the Great Recession on the Irish economy using economic indicators or cross-sectional household-level data, this research note applies group-based multitrajectory modelling to provide a more nuanced approach. Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the Growing Up in Ireland study, we analyse patterns in three common measures of economic
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Growing Up in Québec: the experience of a pilot study. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Catherine Fontaine,Mai Thanh Tu,Hélène Desrosiers,Delphine Provençal,Nancy Illick,Bertrand Perron
Growing Up in Québec, also known as the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, 2nd edition (QLSCD 2), is a prospective cohort that began in spring 2021. Its goal is to follow the development of Québec children from the age of five months to adulthood in about 4,500 families. It is conducted by the Institut de la statistique du Québec and is based on the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development
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Exploring the social power of Christmas: a prospective qualitative study of assigning meaning to Christmas along the life course. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Ozana Cucu-Oancea
This article relies on a prospective qualitative study, that provides valuable insight into the mechanism through which the meaning of holidays is built over time. Following a life course perspective, the article analyses the continuities as well as the twists and turns of the meaning of Christmas in relation to significant turning points that occur along the paths of individual lives in transition
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Life course trajectories of affective symptoms and their early life predictors. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Ellen J Thompson,George B Ploubidis,Marcus Richards,Darya Gaysina
Background Life course trajectories of affective symptoms (depression and anxiety) are heterogenous. However, few studies have investigated the role of early life risk factors in the development of these trajectories. The present study aimed to: (1) derive latent trajectories of affective symptoms over a period of more than 50 years (ages 13-69), and (2) examine early life risk factors for associations
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Exploring the effects of socio-economic inequalities on health and disability in Northern Irish adolescents: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Eoin McElroy,Caroline Courtney,Gary Adamson,Laurence Taggart,Peter Mulhall,Finola Ferry,Jamie Murphy,Una O'Connor Bones
Although a negative association between socio-economic inequalities and health has been established, there is a dearth of robust longitudinal studies examining this relationship in adolescents. This study used a large, nationally representative longitudinal data set to investigate the association between socio-economic inequality, subjective health status and disabilities among young people in Northern
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Data quality and response distributions in a mixed-mode survey. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Mary Beth Ofstedal,Gábor Kézdi,Mick P Couper
Longitudinal surveys traditionally conducted by interviewers are facing increasing pressures to explore alternatives such as sequential mixed-mode designs, which start with a cheaper self-administered mode (online) then follow up using more expensive methods such as telephone or face-to-face interviewing. Using a designed experiment conducted as part of the 2018 wave of the Health and Retirement Study
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Developmental relationships between socio-economic disadvantage and mental health across the first 30 years of life Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Meredith O’Connor,Shuaijun Guo,Primrose Letcher,Ann Sanson,Sharon Goldfeld,Craig A. Olsson
Understanding of how socio-economic disadvantage experienced over the life course relates to mental health outcomes in young adulthood has been limited by a lack of long-term, prospective studies. Here we address this limitation by drawing on data from a large Australian population cohort study that has followed the development of more than 2,000 Australians (and their families) from infancy to young
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Pathways into childbearing delay of men and women in Australia Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Ester Lazzari
Childbearing delay is a pervasive feature of Australian society, but little research has been conducted to examine how socio-economic factors are linked to childbearing timing among Australian men and women. This paper addresses this by analysing the timing of first childbirth for a large sample of Australian residents (N = 4,444). The findings indicate that childbearing delay is socially patterned
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Language skills in student essays: social disparities and later educational attainment Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Maximilian Weber
This article examines the role of language skills in socially stratified educational attainment. Using essays written at the age of 11 in a large British cohort study, the National Child Development Study (NCDS), two measures of written language skills are derived: lexical diversity and the number of spelling and grammar errors. Results show that participants from the lower social strata misspelt more
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Recruitment and retention of participants in longitudinal studies after a natural disaster Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Geraldine F.H. McLeod,L. John Horwood,Brian A. Darlow,Joseph M. Boden,Julia Martin,Janet K. Spittlehouse,Frances A. Carter,Jennifer Jordan,Richard Porter,Caroline Bell,Katie Douglas,Jacki Henderson,Marie Goulden,Virginia V.W. McIntosh,Lianne J. Woodward,Julia J. Rucklidge,Roeline G. Kuijer,Joanne Allen,Esther Vierck
Climate change and population growth will increase vulnerability to natural and human-made disasters or pandemics. Longitudinal research studies may be adversely impacted by a lack of access to study resources, inability to travel around the urban environment, reluctance of sample members to attend appointments, sample members moving residence and potentially also the destruction of research facilities
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Testing the association between the early parent–child relationship and teacher reported socio-emotional difficulties at 11 years: a quantile mediation analysis Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Robert Rush,Elizabeth Westrupp,James Law
The importance of the relationship between socio-emotional difficulties in childhood and adult mental health are well recognised but how such difficulties emerge is less well recognised. Specifically this paper explores the extent of the relationship between parenting beliefs in the first year of the child’s life, parenting skills reported when the child was three years and different quantiles of socio-emotional
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Letter to the editor: Don’t forget survey data: ‘healthy cohorts’ are ‘real-world’ relevant if missing data are handled appropriately Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Richard J. Silverwood,Alissa Goodman,George B. Ploubidis
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Agency, linked lives and historical time: evidence from the longitudinal three-generation Youth Development Study Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Jeylan T. Mortimer
Whereas Glen Elder and associates’ principles of the life course are usually articulated and investigated individually, they reference analytic distinctions that simplify their empirical coexistence and mutual interrelation. This article illustrates this complexity by focusing on the principle of agency and its intersections with ‘linked lives’ and ‘time and place’. Data are drawn from the Youth Development
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Language skills in student essays: social disparities and later educational attainment Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Maximilian Weber
This article examines the role of language skills in socially stratified educational attainment. Using essays written at the age of 11 in a large British cohort study, the National Child Development Study (NCDS), two measures of written language skills are derived: lexical diversity and the number of spelling and grammar errors. Results show that participants from the lower social strata misspelt more
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Pathways into childbearing delay of men and women in Australia Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Ester Lazzari
Childbearing delay is a pervasive feature of Australian society, but little research has been conducted to examine how socio-economic factors are linked to childbearing timing among Australian men and women. This paper addresses this by analysing the timing of first childbirth for a large sample of Australian residents (N = 4,444). The findings indicate that childbearing delay is socially patterned
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Reply to ‘Letter to the editor: Don’t forget survey data: “healthy cohorts” are “real world” relevant if missing data are handled appropriately’ by Richard Silverwood et al Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Gemma Archer,Wei Xun,Nicola Shelton
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Testing the association between the early parent–child relationship and teacher reported socio-emotional difficulties at 11 years: a quantile mediation analysis Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Robert Rush,Elizabeth Westrupp,James Law
The importance of the relationship between socio-emotional difficulties in childhood and adult mental health are well recognised but how such difficulties emerge is less well recognised. Specifically this paper explores the extent of the relationship between parenting beliefs in the first year of the child’s life, parenting skills reported when the child was three years and different quantiles of socio-emotional
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Recruitment and retention of participants in longitudinal studies after a natural disaster Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Geraldine F.H. McLeod,L. John Horwood,Brian A. Darlow,Joseph M. Boden,Julia Martin,Janet K. Spittlehouse,Frances A. Carter,Jennifer Jordan,Richard Porter,Caroline Bell,Katie Douglas,Jacki Henderson,Marie Goulden,Virginia V.W. McIntosh,Lianne J. Woodward,Julia J. Rucklidge,Roeline G. Kuijer,Joanne Allen,Esther Vierck
Climate change and population growth will increase vulnerability to natural and human-made disasters or pandemics. Longitudinal research studies may be adversely impacted by a lack of access to study resources, inability to travel around the urban environment, reluctance of sample members to attend appointments, sample members moving residence and potentially also the destruction of research facilities
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Regional differences in initial labour market conditions and dynamics in lifetime income trajectories Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Kreske Ecker,Xavier de Luna,Olle Westerlund
We use longitudinal register data from Sweden to study patterns and dynamics in lifetime income trajectories. We examine divergences in these income trajectories by local economic conditions at labour market entry, in combination with other factors such as gender, education level and socio-economic background. We cannot assume that these relationships are constant over the course of individuals’ working
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Health, social and economic implications of adolescent risk behaviours/states: protocol for Raine Study Gen2 cohort data linkage study Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Jennifer L Marino,Robert J Tait,Leon M Straker,Deborah J Schofield,Dorota A Doherty,Rebecca Q Ivers,Petra L Graham,Katharine Steinbeck,Sharyn Lymer,Lena A Sanci,George C Patton,Bette Liu,Fiona M Brooks,Melissa S Kang,Martha Hickey,Michelle Cunich,Sarita Bista,S. Rachel Skinner
Background:Risk-taking behaviours are a major contributor to youth morbidity and mortality. Vulnerability to these negative outcomes is constructed from individual behaviour including risk-taking, and from social context, ecological determinants, early life experience, developmental capacity and mental health, contributing to a state of higher risk. However, although risk-taking is part of normal adolescent
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Does substance use play a role in gender differences in residential independence and returns to the parental home? Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Cody Warner,Emily Cady
Young adults are co-residing with their parents at higher rates now than in the past, and recent research has explored the correlates of both leaving and subsequently returning to the parental home. Of relevance here, females tend to leave home earlier than their male counterparts, and research finds that drinking and drug use are also linked to residential transitions. This research note explores
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Social class and sex differences in higher-education attainment among adults in Scotland since the 1960s Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Lindsay Paterson
An important question about adult education is whether it compensates for or exacerbates initial inequality. The paper looks at this question in relation to higher education in Scotland, considering inequality with respect to sex and to social class. The data come from three cohorts followed from birth to 2011–12. The oldest is unique to Scotland, consisting of people born in 1936. The other two are
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Collection of genetic data at scale for a nationally representative population: the UK Millennium Cohort Study Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Emla Fitzsimons,Vanessa Moulton,David A Hughes,Sam Neaves,Karen Ho,Gibran Hemani,Nicholas Timpson,Lisa Calderwood,Emily Gilbert,Susan Ring
A DNA bank has been created from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) saliva samples. A total of 23,336 samples are available, from 9,259 cohort members (4,630 males and 4,629 females), 8,898 mothers and 5,179 fathers. There are 4,533 mother, child, father ‘triads’. This paper describes the collection of the saliva samples from cohort members and their biological parents in the MCS. It analyses response
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The lasting imprint of childhood disadvantage: cumulative histories of exposure to childhood adversity and trajectories of psychological distress in adulthood Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Loanna S. Heidinger,Andrea E. Willson
This study contributes to the literature on the long-term effects of childhood disadvantage on mental health by estimating the association between patterns of cumulative childhood adversity on trajectories of psychological distress in adulthood. There is little research that investigates how compositional variations in the accumulation of childhood adversity may initiate distinct processes of disadvantage
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Changes in the returns to education at entry into the labour market in West Germany Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Rolf Becker,Hans-Peter Blossfeld
This article studies to what extent societal processes such as educational expansion, economic modernisation and business cycles have affected the returns to educational certificates of women and men entering the labour market in West Germany. Using longitudinal data, long-term changes in cohort- and period-specific effects on socio-economic status attainment at entry into the labour market are investigated
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Commentary on ‘Social class and sex differences in higher-education attainment among adults in Scotland since the 1960s’ Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Andrew Jenkins
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Commentary on ‘Social class and sex differences in higher-education attainment among adults in Scotland since the 1960s’ Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Peter Elias
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Social mobility, life course linkages and collecting information on our genes Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Elizabeth C. Cooksey
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Response to commentaries by Andrew Jenkins and Peter Elias on ‘Social class and sex differences in higher-education attainment among adults in Scotland since the 1960s’ Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Lindsay Paterson
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Development of socio-economic gaps in children’s language skills in Germany Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Thorsten Schneider,Tobias Linberg
Gaps in language skills by socio-economic status (SES) are already evident before school entry, and these gaps may change over time. After discussing mechanisms of cumulative advantages (‘Matthew effects’) and compensatory effects as well as the relevance of cultural capital and child-related activities in families, this paper tests mechanisms behind changing SES gaps in language skills from age five
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Consistency of data collected through online life history calendars Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 André Berchtold,Bertil Wicht,Joan-Carles Surís,Davide Morselli
The collection of longitudinal data is crucial in some domains such as life course studies. However, prospective studies are considerably costly, and thus retrospective data are an appealing alternative. A life history calendar is a tool specifically conceived to collect retrospective data. However, although it is designed to enhance the recall process of the respondents, the accuracy of the data collected
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New generations of respondents: assessing the representativity of the HILDA Survey’s child sample Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Nicole Watson
An important aspect of an indefinite life household panel study is to provide a sample of children who become new generations of respondents over time. The representativity of children and young adults in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey is assessed after 16 waves. Estimates from the HILDA Survey are compared to official data sources of the Australian Bureau of
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Incongruence between parental and adolescent educational aspirations hinders academic attainment Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Ingrid Schoon,Kaspar Burger
Previous research has shown that parental educational aspirations for their children are an important predictor of children’s academic attainment. However, recent studies have pointed to potential negative effects, in particular if there is a mismatch between parental educational aspirations and the aspirations of their children. This study examines (1) the role of socio-demographic and school achievement–related
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The role of parental and child physical and mental health on behavioural and emotional adjustment in mid-childhood: a comparison of two generations of British children born 30 years apart Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Sam Parsons,Alice Sullivan,Emla Fitzsimons,George Ploubidis
Poor physical health and behavioural and emotional problems in childhood have a lasting impact on well-being in adolescence and adulthood. Here we address the relationship between poor parent and child physical and mental health in early childhood (age 5) and conduct, hyperactivity and emotional problems in mid-childhood (age 10/11). We compare results across two generations of British children born
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Youth Prospects in the Digital Society: Identities and Inequalities in an Unravelling Europe by John Bynner and Walter R. Heinz Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Tom Schuller
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Data, trajectories, contexts and consequences Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Elizabeth C. Cooksey
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COCON – Swiss Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Marlis Buchmann,Jeanine Grütter,Corinne Igel
This study profile describes COCON – the acronym for COmpetence and CONtext. This is an interdisciplinary, multi-cohort and multi-informant longitudinal study with a primary focus on how children and adolescents cope with the developmental tasks of early life course transitions. It strives to detect the social and individual antecedents and consequences associated with the handling of these transitions
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Stability and mobility in occupational career patterns over 36 years in Swiss women and men Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Kurt Häfeli,Achim Hättich,Claudia Schellenberg,Annette Krauss,Gilbert Ritschard
It is an open empirical question whether occupational trajectories are better described as linear or non-linear. We analysed occupational career patterns (OCPs) over a period of 36 years using longitudinal data from a representative sample of men and women of the German-speaking part of Switzerland. The participants were mostly born in 1963; the data collection spans from 1978 until 2015. For 584 persons
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Mothers’ employment and child behaviour: new evidence for Scotland Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (IF 1.122) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Marita Jacob,Michael Kühhirt
Given increasing maternal labour-market participation in many European countries, there is an ongoing scientific and public debate on the potential consequences for children’s development. Previous research has used both cross-sectional measures of maternal employment at a particular age of the child and measures capturing maternal employment history. Whereas the former approach cannot capture the