Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life : : Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves /

Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life : : Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves / / edited by Dario Spini, Eric Widmer.

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This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the universities of Lausanne and Geneva, within a single comprehensive and coherent...

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Spini, Dario.
TeilnehmendeR:
Widmer, Eric.
Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : Springer Nature Singapore :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (452 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION: Inhabiting vulnerability throughout the life course,- Section 1: Vulnerability as a multidimensional process. Spillovers across life domains
  • Subjective well-being, family dynamics and vulnerability
  • Positive and negative spillover effects: Managing multiple goals in middle adulthood
  • How personal relationships affect employment outcomes: On the role of social networks and family obligations
  • When mobility meets gender in the multidimensional transnational life course
  • Intimate partner loss in later life
  • Synthesis: Multidimensional perspective of vulnerability and life course
  • Section 2: Vulnerability at the articulation of levels
  • Social policies, vulnerability and the life course: A complex nexus
  • Vulnerabilities in local contexts
  • How family and other close ties shape vulnerability processes
  • The many faces of social connectedness and their impact on well-being
  • Vulnerability and health issues: Trajectories, experiences and meanings
  • Synthesis: Multilevel studies on vulnerability processes
  • Section 3: The unfolding of vulnerable life trajectories
  • Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and health in the second half of life: The role of gender and welfare states in the life course of Europeans
  • Ageing and reserves
  • Vulnerabilities and psychological adjustment resources in career development
  • On the sociohistorical construction of social and economic reserves across the life course and on their use in old age
  • Life trajectories as products and determinants of social vulnerability
  • Synthesis: Overcoming vulnerability? The constitution and activation of reserves throughout life trajectories
  • Section 4: Combining methods to study vulnerability processes
  • Life calendars for the collection of life course data
  • Mixed method approaches for data collection in hard-to-reach populations
  • Combining data collection modes in longitudinal studies
  • Combining event history and sequence analysis to study vulnerability over the life course
  • Joint longitudinal and survival models to study vulnerability processes
  • Synthesis: Combining methods for the analysis of vulnerability processes across the life course
  • Book conclusion
  • CONCLUSION: Overcoming vulnerability in the life course: Reflections on a research program.

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