Violent victimisation trajectories from adolescence through adulthood: consequences for sleep problems

2021 ◽  
pp. jech-2021-217356
Author(s):  
Alexander Testa ◽  
Daniel C Semenza ◽  
Dylan B Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Middle Adulthood ◽  
Sleep Quantity ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Violent Victimisation

BackgroundViolent victimisation is a stressful experience that has been linked with sleep problems among children, adolescents and adults. However, prior research has not assessed how victimisation trajectories across different stages of the life-course correspond to sleep outcomes. The present study assesses how trajectories of violent victimisation from adolescence to middle adulthood correspond to sleep behaviours in adulthood.MethodsData are from fives waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N=6015). Semi-parametric group-based trajectory modelling was used to estimate violent victimisation trajectories from adolescence to middle adulthood. Multinomial logistic regression was used to assess the association between sleep quantity and quality across violent victimisation trajectories.ResultsThe findings demonstrate that the relationship between violent victimisation and sleep in adulthood is not consistent across all victimisation trajectories. Rather, sleep quality and quantity are the worst among those who persistently experience violent victimisation from adolescence through adulthood.ConclusionPersistent exposure to violence can be a particularly damaging experience with consequences for sleep quantity and quality. Establishing interventions that reduce violent victimisation across the life-course and promote positive sleep behaviours among those with a history of victimisation are important public health measures.

The use of the life course paradigm and life course charts to explore referral for family history of breast cancer

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Benjamin ◽  
Maria Flynn ◽  
Christine Hallett ◽  
Ian Ellis ◽  
Katie Booth
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Family History ◽  
Life Course ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Life Course

Social Characteristics as Predictors of ADHD Labeling across the Life Course

2020 ◽  
pp. 215686932091653
Author(s):  
Melissa Thompson ◽  
Lindsey Wilkinson ◽  
Hyeyoung Woo
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Adhd Symptoms ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
National Longitudinal Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
First Time

Although originally considered to be a disorder of childhood, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is increasingly being diagnosed for the first time in adulthood. Yet we know little about the social characteristics (race, gender, and social class) of those first labeled in adulthood, how these differ from those first labeled in childhood/adolescence, and whether the ADHD label is applied proportionately across social groups given ADHD symptomology. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the current research considers how typifications of ADHD affect application of the ADHD label in childhood/adolescence and in adulthood. Results indicate that even after controlling for ADHD symptoms, social characteristics are important predictors of the ADHD label in childhood/adolescence but are less influential in predicting ADHD labeling in adulthood. Additionally, results indicate the importance of race in moderating the association between childhood ADHD symptoms and application of the ADHD label throughout the life course.

scholarly journals PATTERNS OF WEALTH TRAJECTORY IN LATER LIFE: CRITICAL PERIOD, ACCUMULATION, AND SOCIAL MOBILITY MODELS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S382-S382
Author(s):  
Yu-Chih Chen ◽  
Sojung Park ◽  
Nancy Morrow-Howell
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Stress ◽  
Mobility Models ◽  
The Life Course

Abstract Wealth, an important financial cushion for older adults to buffer economic stress, requires a longer time to accumulate and develop in one’s course of life. However, little is known about the trajectories of wealth in later life, and how the life course socioeconomic status (SES) may contribute to the development of wealth at old-age. This study investigated longitudinal patterns of wealth trajectory and whether SES across the life course affects these trajectories using critical period, accumulation, and social mobility models. Using data from 16,189 adults aged 51 and older from the 2004-2014 Health and Retirement Study, a growth mixture model was used to explore distinct wealth trajectories. Impacts of life course models were studied using multinomial logistic regression. Results showed that four heterogeneous latent classes of wealth were identified: Stable high (reference group), Low and increasing, Stable low, and High but decline. Disadvantaged adulthood SES, accumulated exposure to socioeconomic risks, and downward or persistent socioeconomic disadvantage over the life course were associated with Stable low, Low and increasing, and High but decline, supporting all three life course mechanisms on wealth development in later life. Evidence suggests that wealth development is heterogeneous across individuals, and a strong gradient effect of life-course SES on wealth trajectories are clearly observed. Programs and policies should address the effects of life course on wealth development to strengthen the economic well-being in later life.

scholarly journals Adult Health Behaviors Over the Life Course by Sexual Orientation

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Boehmer ◽  
Xiaopeng Miao ◽  
Crystal Linkletter ◽  
Melissa A. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
The Life Course

scholarly journals Rethinking the distinctions between old and new media: Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederik Lesage ◽  
Simone Natale
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New Media ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Change ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Vinyl Records

Recent approaches to media change have convincingly shown that distinctions between old and new media are inadequate to describe the complexity of present and past technological configurations. Yet, oldness and newness remain powerful ways to describe and understand media change and continue to direct present-day perceptions and interactions with a wide range of technologies – from vinyl records to artificial intelligence voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa. How can one refuse rigid definitions of old and new, while at the same time retaining the usefulness and pertinence of these concepts for the study and analysis of media change? This introduction to the special issue entitled ‘Rethinking the Distinctions between Old and New Media’ aims to answer this question by taking up the notion of biography. We argue that the recurrence of oldness and newness as categories to describe media is strictly related to the fact that interactions with media are embedded within a biographical understanding of time, which refers both to the life course of people or objects and to the narratives that are created and disseminated about them. Employing this approach entails considering the history of a medium against the history of the changing definitions that are attributed to it and, more broadly, to considering time not only as such but also against the narratives that make it thinkable and understandable.

scholarly journals Modeling the natural history of fatty liver using lifestyle–related risk factors: Effects of body mass index (BMI) on the life–course of fatty liver

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. e0223683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mika Aizawa ◽  
Seiichi Inagaki ◽  
Michiko Moriyama ◽  
Kenichiro Asano ◽  
Masayuki Kakehashi
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Fatty Liver ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Life Course

scholarly journals Family and Community Influences on Health and Socioeconomic Status: Sibling Correlations Over the Life Course

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhashkar Mazumder
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Socioeconomic Outcomes ◽  
Sibling Correlations ◽  
Community Influences ◽  
The Life Course

Abstract This paper presents new estimates of sibling correlations in health and socioeconomic outcomes over the life course in the U.S. Sibling correlations provide an omnibus measure of the importance of all family and community influences. I find that sibling correlations in a range of health and socioeconomic outcomes start quite high at birth and remain high over the life course. The sibling correlation in birth weight is estimated to be 0.5. Sibling correlations in test scores during childhood are as high as 0.6. Sibling correlations in adult men’s wages are also around 0.5. Decompositions provide suggestive evidence on which pathways may account for the gradients in health and SES by family background. For example, sibling correlations in cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills during childhood are lower controlling for family income. Similarly, parent education levels can account for a sizable portion of the correlation in adult health status among brothers.

Religion, Family, and the Life Course: Explorations in the Social History of Early America.

1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 629
Author(s):  
Barry Levy ◽  
Gerald R. Moran ◽  
Maris A. Vinovskis
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social History ◽  
Early America ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Life Course
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