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Showing 1 to 20 of 781 for “"Life course"”.
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Life Course Narratives from U.s. Expatriates: Continuity Work
… exploratory research examined the American life course through narrative accounts of twenty, former expatriates. All participants had lived and worked in another country for a minimum of at least one year before returning to the US. In-depth, face-to-face interviews were conducted between …
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Stress Proliferation and Disability over the Life Course
<p>For decades, life course and stress process scholars have documented that negative, stressful experiences have consequences for health across the life course. However, less attention has been paid to hearing impairment, a highly prevalent functional limitation that has significant implications …
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The Gender Confidence Gap: A Life Course and Intersectional Approach
… I consider the patterns of the gap across the life course and social categories of race to test theories of the gap. I adopt an intersectional and life course approach to test nature versus nurture theories of the gap. Analyzing data from the three-wave MIDUS, I provide evidence that the gap …
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Medicaid and the Life Course: An Intersectional Mixed-Methods Approach
… population due to their age, income, health, and life course exposures to marginalization, poverty, and other risk factors.Medicaid provides an essential health safety net for people in the United States living in poverty, particularly for individuals with high health care needs and costs. Many …
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Educational outcomes of emancipated foster youth: A life course perspective
The present study examined the educational attainments of young adults who have been emancipated from the foster care system. Data for this study were taken from a sub-set of youth who participated in the Foster Youth Project at the University of Illinois. Findings from the study suggest that the …
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African American couples at midlife: life course and gender perspectives
… designed to investigate the experiences of midlife and relationships of 20 African American individuals, aged 35-52, in 10 couples, married or cohabiting for 3-30 years. Basic to this study was the assumption that men and women are capable of and competent at intimate relationships. Guided by …
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Trauma Exposures Across the Life Course for Individuals Who Experience Incarceration
… high levels of exposure to trauma across the life course and that effective post-release intervention will require trauma-informed service systems and trauma-specific interventions. Lifetime prevalence of PTSD is estimated to be 20-60% for incarcerated men, compared to 3.6% in community …
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Intimate Partners in Crime: Utilizing Life Course to Examine Female Criminality
<p>Employing a life-course framework, this research examines how various relationship typologies expands Sampson and Laub’s (2003) discussion of ‘marriage’ as a crucial mechanism involved in desistence. Moreover, recent contributions to life-course theory has identified a void in the literature in …
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A Count of Days: The Life Course in Old English Poetry
… investigates the representation of the human life course in Old English poetry. It attends to constructions of the lifespan as a durational unit, as well as the ‘stages’ or discrete age-related experiences which together form patterns for life development, shared across a diverse range of …
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A Life Course Perspective on the Social Determinants of Multiracial American Health
… and health related to racial stability over the life course. Although some investigations report the health service use of children and adolescents, almost no studies report the health service use of multiracial young adults. Most studies on multiracial groups are cross-sectional and thus focus …
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Genetic Determinants of Body Weight and Physical Maturation Across the Life Course
Evidence points to early life as a critical period of heightened susceptibility to factors that alter the risk of later-life non-communicable diseases. Two early life risk factors increasingly recognised as important for adult health are early puberty timing and childhood obesity. Both factors are …
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Anxious lives: Tracing the life course of a medical diagnosis through illness narratives
… and medical diagnoses figure prominently in the life course of an anxiety disorder.</p>
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Life course socioeconomic circumstances and cardiovascular disease risk in Central and Eastern Europe
This thesis investigated the influences of early life socioeconomic circumstances (SEC) on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic. Early life SEC are inversely associated with CVD risk factors and outcomes in western countries, but the same relationships have not …
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Early Life Environments and Cognitive-Behavioral Outcomes of Children: A Life Course Approach
… the relationship. The current study uses a life course approach to examine the association between maternal prepregnancy obesity and the offspring’s cognitive-behavioral development. A child’s health develops over time as his or her biological systems interact with surrounding environments. …
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Relationships between psychological factors and immune dysregulation in context: a life-course approach
… approach taken is informed by theories about the life-course, the stress process, the stress response and the inflammatory theory of depression. The first two empirical chapters provide evidence about the contribution of psychosocial factors to immune dysregulation. Immune dysregulation is …
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The Context of Changing Schools: A Life Course Perspective on Elementary School Mobility
Also, a student who moves from a low-resourced school to a high-resourced school is predicted to improve on later math and reading tests, while an accompanying change in the home situation (increase in income and parent education, and/or an increase in student and parent ties with others in the …
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Understanding Older Adults' Perceptions of Participation in Physical Exercise: A Life Course Approach
… in physical exercise throughout the life course. Using a life course perspective as the theoretical framework for this study, I identified the factors in older adults' lives that may or may not lead to continuous participation in physical exercise throughout life. Through in-depth …
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Old-age pensions and life course in rural China : the emergence of modern retirement?
… in this transformation process influencing the life chances of many peasants. This study deals with the relationship between social policy and individual life courses in the context of the Chinese reform process. By studying the rural pension policy, the study focuses on the power of social …
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