Sequential analysis as a method for studying life courses: The Case of caregivers’ well-being trajectories, Tiznit Morocco

Being a caregiver offers a sense of usefulness and satisfaction. Similarly, this caregiving function hurts all areas of the caregiver's life. In this vein, we believe that approaching this topic based on the sequential approach is of great importance. Indeed, we will first present the life-course approach as a method for analysing longitudinal quantitative data while highlighting the different stages of sequence analysis as an appropriate analysis method. We will then discuss the importance of studying the life trajectories of caregivers as units of research in the life course approach. The empirical demonstration of this paper originates from doctoral research in sociology on the life course of informal caregivers in the province of Tiznit in Morocco. Through this demonstration, we have crossed quantitative and qualitative analyses of life courses. This work will also show the relevance of sequence analysis and its adaptation to the life course approach of caregivers.

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THE POWER OF LOOKING AHEAD? A FIXED-EFFECTS MODEL OF FUTURE ASPIRATIONS OVER THE LIFE COURSE AND INCOME

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igz038.018 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S6-S6

Author(s):

Ioana Sendroiu ◽

Laura Upenieks

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Fixed Effects Model ◽

Future Aspirations ◽

Life Trajectories ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

The Face ◽

Different Shapes ◽

The Life Course ◽

The Relationship

Abstract Perceived life trajectories are rooted in structural systems of advantage and disadvantage, but individuals also shape their futures through setting goals and expectations. “Future aspirations” have typically been used in life course research to refer to one’s conception of their chances of success across life domains and can serve as a resource to help individuals persevere in the face of hardship. Taking a life course approach and using three waves of data from the MIDUS study, we utilize hybrid fixed effects models to assess the relationship between future aspirations and income. We find that, net of age, health, and a host of other time-varying factors, more positive future aspirations are indeed related to higher income over time, but that this relationship takes different shapes in different contexts. In particular, in lower quality neighborhoods, higher future aspirations lead to worse economic outcomes over the life course, while in higher quality neighborhoods, higher aspirations are indeed related to higher incomes. We thus argue that aspirations are only helpful in some contexts, and are inherently contextual not just in their sources but also in their effects.

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Childhood Polyvictimization and the Life Course: Associations With Depression and Crime

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-18-00099 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (5) ◽

pp. 770-785

Author(s):

Richard S. Carbonaro

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Criminal Behavior ◽

Negative Outcomes ◽

Multiple Forms ◽

Life Trajectories ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

Seemingly Unrelated Regressions ◽

Different Types ◽

Parental Abuse ◽

The Life Course

Exposure to multiple forms of victimization has been shown to have increasingly negative outcomes, but their unique trajectory-setting effects have been largely unexplored. Using a life course approach, this article examines the life trajectories of child polyvictims. I use a nationwide sample including 3,652 respondents after cleaning and preparation. Seemingly unrelated regressions were used to predict depression and criminal behavior in childhood and adulthood. Results suggest that children who experience multiple forms of parental abuse tend to have life trajectories which grow increasingly worse through the life course. However, life trajectories of children experiencing violence outside the home have less persistent negative outcomes. Researchers and interventions should take differing life trajectories into account when attempting to aid different types of polyvictims.

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Early-life circumstances and their effect over the life course

10.31235/osf.io/b4hmv ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Florencia Torche

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Early Life ◽

Developmental Stages ◽

Well Being ◽

Critical Periods ◽

Special Issue ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

Life Circumstances ◽

The Life Course ◽

Research And Policy

The idea that early-life circumstances shape people’s health, development, and well-being over the life course has gained renewed centrality in the last two decades. This renewed interest has been informed by new approaches that emphasize sensitive and critical periods during the first years of life, offer an understanding of human development as a hierarchical and cross-fertilizing process, suggest plausible mechanisms for the persistent effect of early exposures, and explore heterogeneity in effects based on environmental and biological factors. The articles included in this special issue of Population Research and Policy Review advance the field of early-life circumstances in several important dimensions. They examine the determinants and effects of noxious exposures at different developmental stages—ranging from the prenatal period to adolescence—in a variety of national settings. They offer an understanding of early-life circumstances that moves from discrete outcomes to a dynamic life-course approach, and consider diverse sources of heterogeneity in the effects of early exposures.

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The Life Course

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.020 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Alison Moore

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Roman Britain ◽

Age Identity ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

Life Phase ◽

Fundamental Part ◽

Life Courses ◽

The Life Course

Age is more than just a fundamental part of an individual’s personal identity; it is one of the basic building blocks upon which societies are organized. A life-course approach allows us to investigate how age was utilized as an organizational category by identifying the key age stages that were considered socially important and when transitional points were reached that represent a new life phase. This chapter addresses how age identity, as represented in the burial record, can be identified in Roman Britain; it discusses how the evidence for the four visible age stages can be understood and explores the multiplicity of life courses that existed within different regional contexts of the province.

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A life-course approach to co-residence in the Netherlands, 1850–1940

Continuity and Change ◽

10.1017/s0268416010000160 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 285-312 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

JAN KOK ◽

KEES MANDEMAKERS

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Life Course ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

Historical Sample ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Life Courses ◽

The Life Course

ABSTRACTIn this article, we study variations in co-residence with kin in the Netherlands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We use the reconstructed life courses of 17,527 individuals derived from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) database. The life-course approach allows us to look at co-residence from the perspectives of both the receiving households and the co-resident kin. What made households take in relatives and do we find a preference for one type of relative over another? What was the background of people who decided to co-reside in another household? How important were family-related ‘altruistic’ motives compared with economic ones? The outcomes suggest the predominance of altruistic motives for co-residence, apart from persistent inheritance customs in the eastern part of the country.

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Building Health Throughout the Life Course. Concepts, Implications, and Application in Public Health

10.37774/9789275123027 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Life Course ◽

Public Health Practice ◽

Well Being ◽

Health Practice ◽

Human Right ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

The Life Course ◽

Health And Well Being ◽

Improve Health

Building Health Throughout the Life Course elucidates how health develops and changes throughout the life course, and how the use of the life course approach among public health practitioners can ensure that health as a human right is achieved for all individuals. It describes the life course vision of health that focuses not only on diseases and their consequences, but rather on achieving long, healthy, active, and productive lives. The book consists of three stand-alone parts. Part 1, “Concepts”, aims to illuminate the complexity of health through the understanding of the life course approach. It can be used to familiarize oneself with the evolution and meaning of the life course, which serves as a basis for effective public health practice. Part 2, “Implications”, identifies the implications for the operationalization of the life course approach in public health. It translates the technical language of the life course literature to understand how the application of the life course approach requires changes in health systems, policies, research, and practice. Part 3, “Application in Public Health”, identifies key opportunities to strengthen the adoption of the life course approach in public health practice. It describes concrete, evidence-based actions to improve health and well-being through the promotion and generation of skills throughout the life course. This book aims to help decision-makers and public health professionals to understand the life course meaning and concepts, which is essential to comprehend how health develops and changes throughout the life course. The book also describes how the life course model allows us to address health disparities by generating mechanisms to improve health and well-being by promoting the vision of health as the product of a series of experiences that contribute to or detract from health in the near and long term.

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A Faith to Move Mountains? Childhood Abuse, Religious Change, and Mental Health at Midlife

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1493 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 461-461

Author(s):

Laura Upenieks

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Life Course ◽

Childhood Abuse ◽

Childhood Maltreatment ◽

Well Being ◽

The United States ◽

Religious Attendance ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Religious Importance ◽

The Life Course

Abstract Of all the various forms of adversity experienced during childhood, childhood maltreatment (emotional and physical abuse) is shown to have the largest impacts on mental health and well-being. Yet we still have a limited understanding of why some victims of early maltreatment suffer immense mental health consequences later on in the life course, while others are able to cushion the blow of these early insults. Using two waves of data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS), this study considers change in religiosity as a buffer across three dimensions for victims of childhood abuse: religious importance, attendance, and the specific act of seeking comfort through religion. Results suggest that increases in religious comfort during adulthood are positively associated with adult mental health for victims of abuse, while decreases in religious comfort over time were associated with worse mental health. Changes in religious attendance and religious importance were not significant associated with mental health for victims of abuse. Taken together, my results show that the stress-moderating effects of religion for victims of childhood maltreatment are contingent on the stability or increases or decreases in religiosity over the life course, which has been overlooked in previous work.

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Go to More Parties? Social Occasions as Home to Unexpected Turning Points in Life Trajectories

Social Psychology Quarterly ◽

10.1177/0190272518812010 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 82 (1) ◽

pp. 51-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Alice Goffman

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Social Inequality ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Turning Points ◽

Real Life ◽

Emotional Energy ◽

Life Trajectories ◽

Time Out ◽

Collective Effervescence ◽

The Life Course

Reviving classical attention to gathering times as sites of transformation and building on more recent microsociological work, this paper uses qualitative data to show how social occasions open up unexpected bursts of change in the lives of those attending. They do this by pulling people into a special realm apart from normal life, generating collective effervescence and emotional energy, bringing usually disparate people together, forcing public rankings, and requiring complex choreography, all of which combine to make occasions sites of inspiration and connection as well as sites of offense and violation. Rather than a time out from “real” life, social occasions hold an outsized potential to unexpectedly shift the course that real life takes. Implications for microsociology, social inequality, and the life course are considered.

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