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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"life course transitions"”.
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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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The Transition to Adulthood and Prisoner Reentry: Investigating the Experiences of Young Adult Men and their Caregivers
… young ages put them at overwhelming risk of a life course trajectory that includes cycles of future imprisonment and poor life outcomes such as economic hardship, poor mental and physical well being and lower life expectancy (Mears & Travis, 2004; Uggen, 2000; Western, 2002) . This study …
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Kinship and modernisation : an analysis of a Cham community of East Coast Peninsular Malaysia
… real challenges and had to develop new ways of life in a new milieu. From traditional forms of farming and fishing, which had been their main sources of economic support in Cambodia, these people utilized a similar physical environment to develop commercially-oriented economic activities in …
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The Trajectory from School to Work: A Study of Life Chances of School Leavers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden
… inequality and stratification. It considers the life phase between these two institutions as a <em>trajectory</em> – a pathway of several years wherein school careers and work careers overlap and interact.</p> <p>Given the longitudinal approach, this study starts with a comparison of patterns of …
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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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Parental death and its impact on the marital satisfaction of the surviving adult child
Previous literature has identified parental death as having a negative impact on the physical and mental health of the surviving adult child. In addition, research suggests that the marital satisfaction of a male or female adult child is negatively impacted after either a father or mother has died. …