Linked lives: A transgenerational approach to resilience.

2004 ◽  
pp. 169-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis Moen ◽  
Mary Ann Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Linked Lives

Let’s Drink to Being Socially Active: Family Characteristics, Social Participation, and Alcohol Abuse across Mid- and Later-life

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-469
Author(s):  
Eric M. Vogelsang ◽  
Joseph T. Lariscy
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Drinking Behavior ◽  
Marital Dissolution ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Family Characteristics ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Linked Lives ◽  
Using Data

Researchers and practitioners often extol the health benefits of social relationships and social participation for older adults. Yet they often ignore how these same bonds and activities may contribute to negative health behaviors. Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (16,065 observations from 7,007 respondents), we examined how family characteristics, family history, and social participation predicted three measures of alcohol abuse between ages 53 and 71. Results indicate that, generally, greater social participation is associated with increased drinking days per month. We also found that religious participation and having ever lived with an alcoholic are each associated with reporting possible alcohol dependence but not with alcohol consumption itself. Lastly, we identified gendered associations between marital dissolution and drinking behavior. These findings contextualize the increasing rates of alcohol abuse among older adults by emphasizing the possible negative consequences of “linked lives” on health via relationship stress and group norms.

Linked lives and self-regulation

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Oris ◽  
Catherine Ludwig ◽  
Anik de Ribaupierre ◽  
Dominique Joye ◽  
Dario Spini
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Linked Lives

Relationality and linked lives during transitions to parenthood in Europe: an analysis of institutionally framed work-care divisions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Grunow ◽  
Marie Evertsson
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Heterosexual Couple ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Care Plans ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Institutional Embeddedness ◽  
Linked Lives ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
Cross National

This article ties together key findings from a 12-year cross-national qualitative collaboration that involved researchers from nine European countries. Our comparative analysis draws on longitudinal heterosexual couple data, in which both partners were interviewed first, during pregnancy, and second, between six months and two-and-a-half years after childbirth. We tackle the relational ties that shape family practices from a lifecourse perspective, emphasising the interdependent construction of motherhood and fatherhood identities, couples’ institutional embeddedness and linked lives. Analysing the data by combining the relationality and lifecourse perspectives brings forth how women and men enact agency in a constrained environment while making consequential decisions about their own, their partners’ and children’s futures. Whereas the gender culture provides parents with arguments and discourses to motivate their work-care plans, the policy context limits how new parents interact as they seek to escape or cope with institutionally prescribed gender divisions of work and care.

Linked lives in military sociology

2016 ◽  
pp. 180-195
Author(s):  
David R. Segal ◽  
Mady Wechsler Segal
Keyword(s):  
Military Sociology ◽  
Linked Lives

scholarly journals LINKED LIVES: RECEIVING AND GIVING HELP IN TECHNOLOGY USE IN LATER LIFE

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
S Taipale ◽  
T Oinas ◽  
M Tammelin
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Linked Lives

Transition and Adaptation to the Continuing Care Retirement Community From a Life Course Perspective: Something Old, Something New, and Something Borrowed

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liat Ayalon
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Retirement Community ◽  
Continuing Care ◽  
Future Expectations ◽  
Linked Lives ◽  
Continuing Care Retirement Community

The study examined the accounts of older adults and their adult children concerning the transition to the continuing care retirement community (CCRC) and the adjustment to it, using a life course perspective. Up to three waves of interviews, consisting of a total of 187 interviews with older adults and their adult children, were conducted between 6 months and 6 years from the transition to the CCRC. Thematic analysis was employed using comparisons across groups of interviewees (older adults and adult children) and waves of interviews (up to three waves) to identify core categories of meaning. Time perception was an organizing principle across interviews. Both older adults and their adult children perceived themselves as moving forward and backward in time following the transition to the CCRC and future expectations for deterioration. The study emphasizes the linked-lives of older adults and their adult children.

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