Living Apart Together and Cohabitation Intentions in Great Britain

A growing number of studies examine how, why, and when people form and maintain living apart together (LAT) relationships. Although this literature shows that LAT is a diverse and ambiguous practice, little is known about whether people live apart together in particular ways under distinct constellations of life course circumstances. Moreover, it is unclear how intentions to convert LAT into cohabitation are configured by life trajectories. Drawing on data from an unprecedentedly large survey of people in LAT partnerships, we construct a fourfold typology of individuals in LAT relationships and show that each of the identified profiles is characterized by a distinctive position in the life course and different cohabitation intentions. These results indicate that LAT is a flexible way to practice partnership within the context of life course circumstances.

Download Full-text

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.

Download Full-text

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.

Download Full-text

Life trajectories and burden of adversity: mapping the developmental profiles of suicide mortality

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291707000955 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 37 (11) ◽

pp. 1575-1583 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

MONIQUE SÉGUIN ◽

ALAIN LESAGE ◽

GUSTAVO TURECKI ◽

MÉLANIE BOUCHARD ◽

NADIA CHAWKY ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Preventive Intervention ◽

Third Party ◽

Suicide Mortality ◽

Psychological Autopsy ◽

Life Trajectories ◽

Completed Suicide ◽

Life Trajectory ◽

Childhood Traumas ◽

The Life Course

ABSTRACTBackgroundLittle is known about differential suicide profiles across the life trajectory. This study introduces the life-course method in suicide research with the aim of refining the longitudinal and cumulative assessment of psychosocial factors by quantifying accumulation of burden over time in order to delineate distinctive pathways of completed suicide.MethodThe psychological autopsy method was used to obtain third-party information on consecutive suicides. Life-history calendar analysis served to arrive at an adversity score per 5-year segment that was then cluster-analysed and correlated to define victim profiles.ResultsTwo distinct life trajectories emerged: (1) individuals who experienced childhood traumas, developmental adversity and little protection were more likely to present concurrent psychiatric and Axis II disorders; and (2) individuals who experienced less adversity but seemed more reactive to later major difficulties.ConclusionsThe life calendar approach presented here in suicide research adds to the identification of life events, distal and recent, previously associated with suicide. It also quantifies the burden of adversity over the life course, defining two distinct profiles that could benefit from distinct targeted preventive intervention.

Download Full-text

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.

Download Full-text

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

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/202111906002 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 119 ◽

pp. 06002

Author(s):

Mohamed Elbouzidi ◽

Mhamed Mahdane

Keyword(s):

Sequence Analysis ◽

Life Course ◽

Sequential Analysis ◽

Well Being ◽

Sequential Approach ◽

Doctoral Research ◽

Life Trajectories ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

Life Courses ◽

The Life Course

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.

Download Full-text

Suicide amongst the Inuit of Nunavut: An Exploration of Life Trajectories

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17061812 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (6) ◽

pp. 1812

Author(s):

William Affleck ◽

Eduardo Chachamovich ◽

Nadia Chawky ◽

Guy Beauchamp ◽

Gustavo Turecki ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Suicide Attempts ◽

Control Group ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Cascading Effect ◽

Life Trajectories ◽

And Gender ◽

The Life Course ◽

Suicide Group

This article reports results of the life trajectories from 92 Inuit who died by suicide, matched for age and gender with 92 living-controls. A proxy-based procedure and semi-structured interviews with informants were conducted to obtain trajectories of developmental events occurring over the life course for suicide and community-matched controls. Results from this research indicate two different trajectories that differentiate the control-group from the suicide-group throughout the life course. Even though the number of suicide attempts are similar between both groups, the suicide-group had a more important burden of adversity, which seemed to create a cascading effect, leading to suicide.

Download Full-text