La lenta affermazione delle convivenze prematrimoniali in Italia

2013 ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
Monica Santoro
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Religious Aspects ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Leaving The Parental Home ◽  
Instrumental Reasons

The aim of this article is to investigate the phenomenon of cohabitation in Italy through Istat data on the cohabitation trends in the last decades and the results of a qualitative research, based on in-depth interviews among people who cohabited or married after cohabitation, with or without children. The analysis of the interviews shows that the meaning of cohabitation changes according to the experiences of leaving the parental home and the life course stages crossed by interviewees. Marriage is valued for its legal and functional aspects, as a protection of the less financial independent partner. So it becomes a necessity only if the financial condition between partners is unbalanced in order to redress this asymmetry. If the partner conditions are equal - which is the case of the interviewees - marriage does not add benefits. Therefore all social and religious aspects of marriage are excluded by interviewees who were married or plan to marry only for instrumental reasons.

scholarly journals Transition to Adulthood: Leaving the Parental Home in the Last Soviet and the First Post-Soviet Generation

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-154
Author(s):  
Laura Daukšaitė
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Decision To Leave ◽  
Structural Environment ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Leaving The Parental Home

The article presents a research on trajectories of leaving the parental home in the last Soviet and the first post-Soviet generations. It focuses on social transformation of the state during the transition from the Soviet to the post-Soviet and its impact on the life-course of these generations. In our study, we applied a dyadic approach and conducted semi-structured interviews with women of the last Soviet generation (born in 1962–1972) and their children (born in 1992–2002), who represent the first post-Soviet generation. Early changes in and the differentiation of the timetable of transition to adulthood of the last Soviet generation indicated a declining effect of ideologically supported social structures on the life-course of young adults and the growing power of individual decision to leave the parental home or stay within. The rapidly increasing globalization and a transformed economy shaped a new structural environment for the coming of age for the first post-Soviet generation; therefore, we can interpret the further pluralization, de-standardization, and differentiation of the timetable of the transition to adulthood of this generation as a reaction of young people to the emerging risks and insecurities.

scholarly journals Using Normalization Process Theory as a Practical Tool Across the Life Course of a Qualitative Research Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. McNaughton ◽  
A. Steven ◽  
J. Shucksmith
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Normalization Process Theory ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Interactive Tools ◽  
Practical Tool ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Normalization Process ◽  
Nhs Health Check

Drawing on work that aimed to understand factors influencing experience of and engagement with the National Health Service (NHS) Health Check Program, this article discusses how Normalization Process Theory was used throughout the life course of a research project. As a relatively new theory, Normalization Process Theory is still being refined and much work undertaken to develop interactive tools and “test” the utility of it. Although there is little published critique of the theory, two main issues have arisen in the literature: (a) difficulties ensuring interpretation of constructs are congruent to the original theory and (b) the intensity of translation work to contextualize the theory to individual settings. These issues are explored in this article by examining the processes undertaken to translate Normalization Process Theory so that it was usable to shape a qualitative research project from design to analysis and interpretation.

scholarly journals The networked question in the digital era: How do networked, bounded, and limited individuals connect at different stages in the life course?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Wellman ◽  
Anabel Quan-Haase ◽  
Molly-Gloria Harper
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Networked Individualism

AbstractWe used in-depth interviews with 101 participants in the East York section of Toronto, Canada to understand how digital media affects social connectivity in general—and networked individualism in particular—for people at different stages of the life course. Although people of all ages intertwined their use of digital media with their face-to-face interactions, younger adults used more types of digital media and have more diversified personal networks. People in different age-groups conserved media, tending to stick with the digital media they learned to use in earlier life stages. Approximately one-third of the participants were Networked Individuals: In each age-group, they were the most actively using digital media to maintain ties and to develop new ones. Another one-third were Socially Bounded, who often actively used digital media but kept their connectivity within a smaller set of social groups. The remaining one-third, who were Socially Limited, were the least likely to use digital media. Younger adults were the most likely to be Networked Individuals, leading us to wonder if the percentage of the population who are Bounded or Limited will decline over time.

scholarly journals YOU’LL SEE: YOUNGER RESEARCHERS INTERVIEWING OLDER PARTICIPANTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S706-S707
Author(s):  
Sarah Jen ◽  
Yuanjin Zhou ◽  
Mijin Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Age Difference ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Age Related ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In qualitative research, similarities and differences between the participant and researcher influence the research process and dynamics. Specifically, the age difference between older participants and relatively younger qualitative researchers is a common, but under-examined dynamic requiring nuanced, reflexive analysis. Using a life course conceptual framing, this study explored age-related participant-researcher dynamics in interviews from two qualitative studies of older women’s sexual experiences in later life. Participants included 25 women whose ages ranged from 55 to 93 and both studies were completed by the same researcher, a relatively younger woman (age 23 and 28 at times of data collection). A thematic analysis revealed three primary themes: 1) taking care - participants took care of the researcher by offering advice, asking about the researcher’s life, and expressing hopes for a positive future, 2) expertise – varied expertise was demonstrated by the researcher (e.g. substantive and scholarly) and participants (e.g. life experience), and 3) researcher growth - the researcher’s interviewing tactics shifted between the two studies (e.g. use of validation rather than consolation in response to aging-related concerns), indicating a shift in perceptions of aging and later life. Findings indicate that older women participants and younger women researchers are bound together through the life course, by shared gendered experiences, the fact that one will eventually become the other, and the mutual sharing of expertise and caring. Gerontology researchers must actively reflect on the impact of their own identities and aging perceptions on the interviewing process in order to enhance rigor in qualitative research.

The Life-Course Theory of Serial Killing: A Motivation Model

2020 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2098103
Author(s):  
S. A. Deepak ◽  
S. Ramdoss
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Motivation Model ◽  
Depth Interviews

Case studies were conducted on eight serial killers in India who were inmates in central prisons of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The study is a pioneering one on serial killers in the locale of the study. All available information about the lives of offenders were collected through multiple sources, including in-depth interviews with serial killers in the prisons, interviews of relatives of the killers, surviving victims, Investigators, crime scene studies, etc. The collected data have been chronologically arranged to construct biographies of the offenders. The rich biographies were carefully analyzed to construct an inclusive motivation model that can explain the process of individuals evolving into serial killers from a life-course approach. The motivation in each of the eight cases was explained with the proposed motivation model. The constructed motivation model is unique from the existing models, which were mostly rigid and, therefore, not applicable to cases outside the studies. The model proposes three critical determinants for explaining the evolution of a person into a serial killer, “nature,” “Deep Resting Life Factor,” and “key Incidents.” The study found a relatively short incident named “trigger” in the lives of six serial killers, which played a significant role in bringing out the dormant killer instinct and push the subjects toward the first murder. The comparative analysis of the motivation in different cases revealed that though there were recurring factors in the lives of serial killers, their interactions were more important than standalone factors. The study also found that there are no predetermined recipes for the making of a killer like some past researchers claimed.

scholarly journals A qualitative research synthesis of contextual factors contributing to female overweight and obesity over the life course in sub-Saharan Africa

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. e0224612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ifeoma D. Ozodiegwu ◽  
Mary Ann Littleton ◽  
Christian Nwabueze ◽  
Oluwaseun Famojuro ◽  
Megan Quinn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Research Synthesis ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Life Course

scholarly journals Living With Parents and Emerging Adults’ Depressive Symptoms

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (16) ◽  
pp. 2254-2276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Copp ◽  
Peggy C. Giordano ◽  
Monica A. Longmore ◽  
Wendy D. Manning
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Economic Independence ◽  
Adolescent Relationships ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The Life Course

Whether moving back home after a period of economic independence or having never moved out, the share of emerging adults living with parents is increasing. Yet little is known about the associations of coresidence patterns and rationales for coresidence for emerging adult well-being. Using the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study ( n = 891), we analyzed depressive symptoms among emerging adults who (a) never left the parental home, (b) returned to the parental home, and (c) were not currently living with a parent. About one fifth of emerging adults had boomeranged or moved back in with their parents. Among those living with parents, nearly two fifths had boomeranged or returned to their parental home and they reported significantly higher levels of depressive symptoms. Among coresident emerging adults, both intrinsic and utilitarian motivations (i.e., enjoy living with parents and employment problems) partially mediated the association between coresidence and depressive symptoms. Returning to the parental home was associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms only among emerging adults experiencing employment problems. These findings are especially relevant because the recession hit emerging adults particularly hard. The ability to distinguish boomerang emerging adults and emerging adults who have never left home provides a more nuanced understanding of parental coresidence during this phase of the life course.

Intergenerational Exchanges and Perceptions of Support within “Boomerang Kid” Family Environments

1998 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean E. Veevers ◽  
Barbara A. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intergenerational Exchanges ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Affective Support

Drawing on the social exchange perspective, we examine: 1) the extent to which adult children who have returned to the parental home (“boomerang kids”) exchange several types of instrumental and affective support with their parents, and 2) whether there is symmetry or incongruence in perceptions of support among these family dyads. The data used for this study are drawn from interviews with one child and one parent from 218 families in which the child has recently returned home. Findings indicate that children receive more frequent instrumental and emotional (affective) support than parents receive, and that parents perceive that they receive considerably more emotional support than boomerang children acknowledge donating. Implications for family relationships over the life course and household living arrangements are considered.

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