Withstanding vulnerability throughout adult life : dynamics of stressors, resources, and reserves /: dynamics of stressors, resources, and reserves. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dario Spini, Eric Widmer.
• Editors: Spini, Dario; Widmer, Eric D, 1966-
• Contents: INTRODUCTION: Inhabiting vulnerability throughout the life courseSection 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 conclusionCONCLUSION: Overcoming vulnerability in the life course: Reflections on a research program.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 179.9; Vulnerability (Personality trait); Adulthood -- Switzerland -- Psychological aspects; Stress (Psychology) -- Switzerland; Resilience (Personality trait) -- Switzerland
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811945670
• Related ISBNs: 9789811945663; 9789811945694
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