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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/21
2014-11-13T00:06:37Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Handling attrition and non-response in longitudinal data
Peer-reviewed Article
Goldstein, Harvey
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Longitudinal Research
Methodology
Multi-Level
en_US
Procedures for handling attrition and missing data in longitudinal studies are discussed. A multiple imputation (MI) strategy is developed that can be applied to complex multilevel data. It is both general and statistically efficient and estimation software is available. An example of its use is given.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/23
2014-11-13T00:06:50Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Development of nighttime bladder control from 4 – 9 years: association with dimensions of parent rated child maturational level, child temperament and maternal psychopathology.
Peer-reviewed Article
Joinson, Carol; University of Bristol
Heron, Jon; University of Bristol
Butler, Richard; Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services, East Leeds Primary Care Trust
Croudace, Tim; University of Cambridge
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bedwetting
nocturnal enuresis
latent class analysis
developmental typology
risk factors
prospective study
child development
ALSPAC.
en_US
Background: This study investigates variability in acquisition of nighttime bladder control in a large, general population sample of children by defining a developmental typology through latent class analysis. Also examined is the association of bedwetting classes with risk factors in early childhood including maturational level, temperament and exposure to maternal psychopathology.
Methods: Data from a UK population sample of over 10,000 children from age 4-9 years were available from ALSPAC. Parents completed questionnaires asking about their child’s bedwetting (on five occasions during the assessment period) and maturational level (at 18 months), temperament (24 months), and maternal depressive / anxious psychopathology (21 months). Longitudinal phenotypes capturing population heterogeneity in nighttime bladder control were derived using latent class analysis. Associations with the risk factors were investigated using multinomial logistic regression.
Results: Five groups of children were identified with different patterns of development: 1) normative (69.9% of 10,818 sample); (2) delayed (8.4%); (3) severely delayed (9.3%); (4) persistent (8.6%), and (5) relapse (3.8%). Results indicated that the risk factors were associated with an increase in the odds of children experiencing problems either attaining nighttime bladder control or with relapse in bedwetting after a period of initial dryness.
Conclusions: Development of nighttime bladder control and onset of bedwetting problems are captured by this developmental typology approach, enabling factors that affect risk of bedwetting to be determined and targeted. Further investigation is required into risk factors relating to individuals and their environments that are associated with difficulties attaining or maintaining nighttime continence, including neurobiological and genetic factors.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/26
2014-11-13T00:06:59Z
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2014-11-13T00:06:59Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Long-term trends in BMI: are contemporary childhood BMI growth references appropriate when looking at historical datasets?
Peer-reviewed Article
Silverwood, Richard; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Leon, David A; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
De Stavola, Bianca L; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/26
Childhood obesity
body mass index
z-scores
growth references
cohort studies
en_US
Background Body mass index (BMI) is the most widely used surrogate measure of adiposity, and BMI z-scores are often calculated when comparing childhood BMI between populations and population sub-groups. Several growth references are currently used as the basis for calculation of such z-scores, for both contemporary cohorts as well as cohorts born decades ago. Due to the widely acknowledged increases in childhood obesity over recent years it is generally assumed that older birth cohorts would have lower BMIs relative to the current standards. However, this reasonable assumption has not been formally tested. Methods Two growth references (1990 UK and 2000 CDC) are used to calculate BMI z-scores in three historical British national birth cohorts (National Survey of Health and Development (1958), National Child Development Study (1958) and British Cohort Study (1970)). BMI z-scores are obtained for each child at each follow-up age using the lambda-mu-sigma (LMS) method, and their distributions examined. Results Across all three cohorts, median BMI z-score at each follow-up age is observed to be positive in early childhood. This is contrary to what might have been expected given the assumed temporal increase in childhood BMI. However, z-scores then decrease and become negative during adolescence, before increasing once more. Conclusions The differences in BMI distribution between the historical cohorts and the contemporary growth references appear systematic and similar across the cohorts. This might be explained by contemporary reference data describing a faster tempo of weight increase relative to height than observed in older birth cohorts. Comparisons using z-scores over extended periods of time should therefore be interpreted with caution.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/27
2014-11-13T00:07:01Z
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2014-11-13T00:07:01Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Social Connections in the Inner City: Examination across the Life Course
Peer-reviewed Article
Ensminger, Margaret E; Bloomberg School of Public Health
Juon, Hee-Soon; Bloomberg School of Public Health
Lee, Rosalyn; Previously with NORC at the University of Chicago, Dept. of Substance Abuse, Mental Health and Criminal Justice Studies
Lo, Sophia Y; Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Life Course Study
Longitudinal Research
Social Connections
African American
Intergenerational
multi-Level
Neighborhood
Social Class
Family
Social Adaptation
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Social connectedness has been shown to be related to health and well-being, yet there is little knowledge about its developmental and intergenerational origins. We examine the childhood, family, and neighborhood origins of social connectedness in young adulthood in a cohort of African American children (N=1242) from Chicago followed since 1966. The five measures of social connections are: political involvement, organizational membership, church involvement, family ties, and friend ties. In multivariate analyses, predictors of social connectedness were found across the life course: first grade social adaptation to school, childhood family resources, family social participation, adult neighborhood characteristics, social class, and marital status. We conclude that adult social connections have roots in childhood behavior and social involvement, family resources and family social connections as well as one’s own resources and the neighborhood where one lives.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/28
2014-11-13T00:07:10Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Family Socialization, Economic Self-Efficacy, and the Attainment of Financial Independence in Early Adulthood
Peer-reviewed Article
Lee, Jennifer C.; Indiana University
Mortimer, Jeylan T.; University of Minnesota
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economic socialization
attainment
family
en_US
The attainment of financial independence is a key marker of the contemporary transition to adulthood. In this study we ask, how do young adults gain the capacity to support themselves? We contend that communication about work in the family during adolescence is an essential precursor of economic self-efficacy during adolescence and financial independence in early adulthood. Drawing upon rich longitudinal data that span adolescence and young adulthood, we first ask whether family communication and socialization practices surrounding work and finances influence the development of ways of thinking about oneself that imply self-reliance and confidence in the economic domain (economic self-efficacy). Second, we assess whether these components of the family’s economic climate have long-term influences on the transition to adulthood, status attainment, and financial independence. Our findings indicate that direct communications about work with parents foster the development of economic self-efficacy. This positive dimension of the self-concept fosters achievement during the transition to adulthood (e.g., educational achievement, employment status, and income attainment), which, in turn, heighten financial independence. In contrast, looking to parents for money during adolescence (that is, receiving a regular allowance) appears to diminish economic self-efficacy and does not promote socioeconomic attainment.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/29
2014-11-13T00:07:53Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Does mothers’ employment affect children’s development? Evidence from the children of the British 1970 Birth Cohort and the American NLSY79
Peer-reviewed Article
Cooksey, Elizabeth; Ohio State University
Joshi, Heather; Institute of Education, University of London
Verropoulou, Georgia; University of Piraeus
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Key words
Maternal employment
child outcomes
cognitive development
behavioural adjustment
maternity leave
BCS70 second generation survey
NLSY79 second generation survey
intergenerational transmission
full/part-time employment
US-UK comparison.
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Background: The increasing employment of mothers of young children in the UK and the USA is believed to affect children adversely. Maternity leave and part-time employment, more common in the UK than the US, are possible offsets.Methods: This paper analyses the cognitive and behavioural development of school aged children by maternal employment before the child’s first birthday. Data come from the second generation of two cohort studies: the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study (BCS70) and the US 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth Child (NLSY79). Both contain several outcomes per child, in some cases several children per mother. The hierarchical structure is tackled by multi-level modelling. The BCS70 provides data back to birth for the mothers we study, and the NLSY79 started collecting data from mothers in their early to mid teens, thus supplying a good array of controls for confounding variables (such as maternal education and ability, family history) which may affect labour market participation.Results: Similar to other studies, results are mixed and modest. Only two out of five US estimates of maternal employment in the child’s first year have a significant (0.05 level) coefficient on child development – negative for reading comprehension, positive for freedom from internalized behaviour problems. None of the estimates were significant for four child outcomes modelled in Britain. Conclusions: There is little evidence of harm to school-age children from maternal employment during a child's infancy, especially if employment is part-time, and in a context where several months of maternity leave is the norm. .
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/32
2014-11-13T00:08:26Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies: a new journal
Editorial
Bynner, John
Erikson, Robert
Goldstein, Harvey
Maughan, Barbara
Wadsworth, Michael
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/39
2014-11-13T00:08:35Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
A selection of topical items
Raimes, Jane
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/40
2014-11-13T00:08:52Z
llcs:FI
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2014-11-13T00:08:52Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Full Issue
whole journal
Raimes, Jane
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/49
2018-05-19T20:30:38Z
llcs:RN
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2018-05-19T20:30:38Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 228 - 239
Emotional and behavioural problems in childhood and risk of overall and cause-specific morbidity and mortality in middle-aged Finnish men
Research Notes
Kauhanen, Laura Anniina; University of Kuopio
Leino, Janne; University of Kuopio
Lakka, Hanna-Maaria; University of Kuopio
Lynch, John William; University of South Australia
Kauhanen, Jussi; University of Kuopio
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/49
cancer
cardiovascular disease
mortality
population studies
psychosocial factors
en_US
Background Psychosocial problems in childhood affect the health in adulthood. Few studies have examined the influence of psychosocial problems in childhood with regard to cancer mortality, all-cause mortality and cardiovascular morbidity and alcohol-associated mortality. The purpose of this study was to investigate psychosocial, emotional, and conduct problems in childhood as a predictor of cancer, all-cause and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and alcohol-associated morbidity from historical information. Methods The subjects were male participants from the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD), a population-based cohort study in eastern Finland with follow-up until 2002. Data on psychosocial problems in childhood were collected from school health records (n=952), mainly from the 1930s to 1950s. Adulthood risk data were obtained from baseline examinations in 1984-1989. Results Men who had psychosocial problems in childhood had a 2.26-fold (95% CI 1.15 to 4.43) age- and examination-year adjusted risk of cancer death. After adjustment for biological and behavioural risk factors and for the socioeconomic position both in childhood and adulthood the association remained. Cancer mortality (lung cancer deaths excluded), and alcohol-associated diseases showed also elevated risk, but the results were not statistically significant. Conduct problems in childhood were associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality in adulthood. Conclusions Our findings suggest that psychosocial problems in childhood are associated with increased risk of cancer mortality in adulthood mainly through life-style factors, such as smoking and alcohol consumption.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/60
2014-11-13T00:09:02Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 119-120
Editorial
Editorial
Bynner, John
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/61
2014-11-13T00:09:11Z
llcs:BR
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 186-191
Book Reviews
Non-refereed Book Review
Raimes, Jane
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/62
2014-11-13T00:09:20Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 192-196
News and Events
Raimes, Jane
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/63
2014-11-13T00:10:12Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Full Issue
whole journal
Raimes, Jane
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
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Full Issue
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/64
2014-11-13T00:10:13Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 121-136
The origins and innovatory nature of the 1946 British national birth cohort study
Peer-reviewed Article
Wadsworth, Michael
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Longitudinal study
history
epidemiology
social science
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The first of Britain’s six large-scale birth cohort studies began in 1946, within eleven months of the end of the Second World War. Evidence is given in support of the argument that the initial aims of the first study were determined mostly by pre-war policy and scientific concerns with falling fertility and the social gradient in infant mortality. It is also shown that the methods and dynamic of the study were provided by the enthusiasm and expertise of a young demographer, and by a young physician’s expertise and war-time experience of data collection and analysis. Their pioneering methods of data collection, their concern with both science and policy, and with biological as well as social questions, and the physician’s determination and persistence in swimming against the tide of contemporary scientific opinion, provided a strong basis for the study, which still continues.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/65
2014-11-13T00:10:15Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 137-154
Pushy parents make for later grandparents: parents’ educational expectations and their children’s fertility among two British cohorts
Peer-reviewed Article
Kneale, Dylan; Institute of Education
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/65
Parenthood
Fertility
Early Motherhood
Educational Expectations
en_US
The timing of first birth is often viewed through the opportunity costs of childbearing theory – greater potential in the labour market will lead to postponement of first birth. This paper examines the effect of parental educational expectations in shaping opportunity costs as predictors of early parenthood, using data from two British Birth cohorts born in 1958 and 1970. Rapid inter-cohort changes in labour market and educational patterns could change the importance of educational expectations in determining time to first parenthood. Two definitions of early parenthood are used – one relative, based upon the first quartile of each cohort entering parenthood, and the second equating to teenage parenthood. Parental educational expectations measured at age 16 are used in binary logistic regression models for men and women. Predicted probabilities are presented to emphasise the contrast between educational expectations and socioeconomic measures. Parental educational expectations are found to be strong predictors of early fertility in most models. Expecting any post-compulsory education leads to a decrease in the odds of early parenthood against a battery of controls. Where the expectations of parents are non-significant, those of the teacher are significant. Only in the 1970 cohort teenage fatherhood model were educational expectations of important adults found to be non-significant. Adult, usually parental, high educational expectations reduce the probability of young people becoming early parents, even in the presence of controlling factors that are usually assumed to account for this relationship. This indicates a role for parents in future interventions aimed at lowering levels of early parenthood.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/66
2014-11-13T00:10:17Z
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2014-11-13T00:10:17Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 155-169
Lifelong childlessness in England and Wales Evidence from the ONS Longitudinal Study
Peer-reviewed Article
Portanti, Martina; Office for National Statistics
Whitworth, Simon Matthew; Office for National Statistics
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/66
Childlessness
fertility
ONS Longitudinal Study
women
England and Wales
longitudinal research
en_US
Previous research on childlessness suggests that childless women differ from those with children mainly in terms of their attitudes and values. In the literature, mixed evidence exists regarding how distinctive childless women are in terms of their socio-economic characteristics. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Longitudinal Study (LS) is used for the first time to investigate the personal and household characteristics of women born between 1956 and 1960 in relation to their lifelong fertility outcomes. Logistic regression techniques are used to model the probability of lifetime childlessness based on a number of women’s and their partners’ socio-economic characteristics at various key ages during women’s life-course. Single women are the most likely to be childless and married women are least likely to be childless. For those with partners, childless women are more often in “non-traditional” partnership, including cohabitations, and tend more often to have wider age gaps with their partners. In terms of women’s own characteristics, the economically active are more likely to be childless and childless women have a slightly higher social and economic status as compared to mothers. Childlessness is often associated with presence of a limiting long term illness and a lack of any siblings in childhood. Using administrative and Census records available in the LS, it is possible to provide robust statistical evidence that childless women appear to be a distinctive group in terms of key socio-economic characteristics. This analysis also shows the potential of the LS to be used more frequently for quantitative research on childlessness alongside other survey data sources. Keywords:
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/67
2014-11-13T00:10:19Z
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2014-11-13T00:10:19Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 170-185
Statistical modelling of repeated measurement data
tutorial
Goldstein, Harvey
De Stavola, Bianca
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/67
Repeated measures
growth
en_US
This tutorial describes ways of modelling repeated measurements taken on a sample of individuals. It gives a brief historical introduction and then describes how a 2-level formulation provides a flexible and straightforward approach.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/81
2014-11-13T00:11:29Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:11:29Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 319 - 330
Developmental trajectories of body mass index throughout the life course: an application of Latent Class Growth (Mixture) Modelling
Peer-reviewed Article
Hoekstra, Trynke; VU University
Barbosa-Leiker, Celestina; Washington State University
Koppes, Lando LJ; TNO Quality of Life
Twisk, Jos WR; VU University
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/81
Life course Epidemiology
Latent Variable Models
Body fatness
Cardiovascular Disease Risk
en_US
The aims of this study are 1) to analyse developmental trajectories of body fatness from adolescence into adulthood, thereby determining the number and characteristics of distinct body fatness trajectories, and 2) to relate these distinct subgroups to indicators of cardiovascular disease risk, revealing subgroups specifically at risk. This paper will illustrate in more detail the application of Latent Class Growth (Mixture) Modelling (LCGMM) on longitudinal, observational data. Data were obtained from the Amsterdam Growth and Health Longitudinal Study, an ongoing observational study of apparently healthy participants (n=336). Participants were followed up from 13-42 years of age. Body Mass Index was used as a marker for body fatness and cardiovascular diseases (CVD)-risk factors included Mean Arterial Pressure and HDL-Cholesterol. LCGMM was used for the identification of developmental trajectories of body fatness, and linear regression analyses were used for the associations between the trajectories and CVD-risk. Analyses revealed three distinct trajectories; a "normative" trajectory (88.4%), a progressively overweight trajectory (4.5%) and a progressively overweight but stabilising trajectory (7.1%). Significant differences in CVD-risk between these trajectories appeared. These results show that body fatness development throughout life is heterogeneous, showing differences in CVD-risk. This paper also demonstrates that LCGMM is a promising technique to distinguish between subjects with different developmental trajectories.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/89
2014-11-13T00:10:31Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:10:31Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 197-200
Cognitive capital in the British birth cohorts: an introduction
Peer-reviewed Article
Richards, Marcus; MRC
Deary, Ian
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/89
cognitive capital
IQ measurement
en_US
No abstract
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/90
2014-11-13T00:10:33Z
llcs:PAPS
v2
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2014-11-13T00:10:33Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 201-208
Setting the scene
Peer-reviewed Article
Sutherland, Gillian; Newnham College, Cambridge
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/90
education
employment
training
policy
history
en_US
No abstract
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/92
2014-11-13T00:10:35Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:10:35Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 223-240
Progress and attainment during primary school: the roles of literacy, numeracy and self-regulation
Peer-reviewed Article
Duckworth, Kathryn
Schoon, Ingrid
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/92
cognitive capital
primary school
academic achievement
literacy
numeracy
self-regulation
en_US
Academic achievement is a cumulative process marked by both continuity and change over time. Research increasingly documents the critical importance of not only language and mathematical competency for academic success, but also the centrality of wider skills that enable pupils to regulate their own learning behaviours. This paper examines the balance that exists between change and stability in different domains of children’s academic achievement during middle childhood and the relative importance of achievement, attention and related features of self-regulation skills for subsequent achievement. Using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, the analysis attempts to move beyond a narrow view of educational success and seeks to inform the understanding of how changes in children’s developing capabilities predict educational success at the end of primary school in English and maths. The results demonstrate a clear pattern of continuity in attainment but also evidence of mobility both up and down the achievement distributions. In line with an increasing body of literature, the findings also show evidence of a remarkable persistence in skills related to attention as important predictors of later achievement.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/93
2014-11-13T00:10:37Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:10:37Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 241-158
Childhood cognitive ability and adult academic attainment: evidence from three British cohort studies
Peer-reviewed Article
Schoon, Ingrid
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/93
cognitive capital
academic attainment
en_US
This paper examines the association between general cognitive ability directly measured in mid childhood and adult academic attainment in three British birth cohorts born in 1946, 1958, and 1970, controlling for family socio-economic background and gender. The study uses structural equation modeling to link latent variables indicating family socio-economic background, childhood general cognitive ability, and academic attainment assessed through school leaving age and highest qualifications achieved by age 26. In addition logistic regression modeling is used to establish the odds of obtaining degree level qualifications in times of social change. The results show that the association between family social background and academic attainment has remained more or less the same over time, gender inequalities have reduced, while the association between general cognitive ability and academic attainment has decreased for the 1970 cohort. Although more young people achieve degree level qualifications in the later born cohort, the findings suggest persisting social inequality in the realisation of cognitive potential and educational opportunities. The findings are discussed in terms of their policy implications.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/94
2014-11-13T00:10:40Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:10:40Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 281-296
Health returns to cognitive capital in the British 1946 birth cohort
Peer-reviewed Article
Richards, Marcus
Stephen, Alison
Mishra, Gita
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/94
cognitive capital
cardiovascular risk factors
education
1946 British birth cohort
en_US
The association between education and health has long been discussed; but more recently the question of whether this association is accounted for by cognitive capital has received considerable attention, including in the British birth cohorts. Following work in the British 1970 cohort we investigated childhood cognition in relation to six health outcomes in midlife linked to risk of cardiovascular disease in the British 1946 cohort. These outcomes were smoking, physical exercise, healthy dietary choice, obesity, hypertension, and non insulin-dependent diabetes at or by age 53 years. Childhood cognition was associated with all of these outcomes although for all except exercise and healthy diet this was fully mediated by educational attainment, and partially so by adult socioeconomic attainment. Cognitive capital plays a role in the accumulation of risk for chronic physical disease in midlife, but it is not a sufficient determinant of this risk, and does not account for the association between education and health outcomes related to this risk.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/95
2014-11-13T00:10:41Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:10:41Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 259-280
Family income,education and cognitive ability in the next generation: exploring income gradients in education and test scores for current cohorts of youth
Peer-reviewed Article
Gregg, Paul
Macmillan, Lindsey
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/95
intergenerational mobility
children
education
en_US
The relationship between the incomes of the family a child is growing up in and the education level the child obtains has been of great interest to researchers for a number of reasons. Firstly, this gives us a measure of educational inequality in its own right and secondly, because the relationship between family income and education is also one of the key drivers of intergenerational income mobility across time in the UK and gradients in life chances across a range of other domains. This paper explores the evolution of the relationship between family income and education for a group of cohorts from those born in 1958 to those born in 1991/92. The range of educational relationships we can measure depends on the age of the child. For older cohorts, who we observe as finished in education, we can measure the full range of educational outcomes up to degree level and their relationship with family income. For younger cohorts who are in earlier stages of education, we can measure test scores and GCSE results but not later educational outcomes.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/96
2014-11-13T00:10:43Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:10:43Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 297-304
Cognitive capital: the case for a construct
Peer-reviewed Article
Bynner, John
Wadsworth, Michael
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/96
cross-cohort
developmental psychology
longitudinal research
en_US
Cognitive functioning and its outcomes in educational performance and improved life chances tends to rely on a model of human functioning derived from 19th century thinking about intelligence resting on fixed abilities. To match the requirements of the life course perspective on human development the concept of an accumulating asset, 'cognitive capital' has much to recommend it. The papers in this volume report results of cohort study data analyais at different life course stages around this theme. They make a major contribution to our understanding of the processes involved in the acquisition and outcomes of cognitive capital.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/97
2014-11-13T00:10:45Z
llcs:CD
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2014-11-13T00:10:45Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 310-311
Response to: 'Historical note: the early years of the 1946 British birth cohort study
Wadsworth, Michael
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/97
en_US
no abstract
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/98
2014-11-13T00:10:47Z
llcs:CD
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2014-11-13T00:10:47Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 305-309
Historical note: early years of the 1946 British birth cohort study
Blane, David
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/98
en_US
no abstract
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/107
2014-11-13T00:10:48Z
llcs:N+and+E
v2
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2014-11-13T00:10:48Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 312-314
News, Events and Resources
Raimes, Jane
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/107
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/108
2014-11-13T00:10:50Z
llcs:FI
v2
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2014-11-13T00:10:50Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 197-314
Full Issue
whole journal
Raimes, Jane
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/108
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/109
2014-11-13T00:10:52Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:10:52Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 209-222
Family hardship and children's development: the early years
Peer-reviewed Article
Schoon, Ingrid
Hope, Steven
Ross, Andy
Duckworth, Kathryn
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/109
cognitive capital
family hardship
childhood development
en_US
Examining the factors and processes shaping school readiness provides important information about how to enable young children to develop their cognitive potential and to succeed in their school careers. The aim of this paper is to assess different mediating processes through which family hardship affects children’s early development, both in terms of cognitive and behavioural adjustment. Using data from the UK Millennium Cohort, we examine the associations between persistent socio-economic hardship and young children’s development, and investigate the role of maternal emotional distress, mother-child interactions, and cognitive stimulation as potential mediators, in a sample of 14661 children, who were followed from birth through age 3 years. Cognitive ability was assessed by standardized tests, and child behaviour by maternal report, when the children were 3 years of age. The findings suggest that persistent family hardship was significantly associated with child developmental outcomes. The impact of hardship on cognitive and behavioural adjustment is partially mediated by the level of maternal distress, which in turn shapes the quality of parent-child interactions and the provision of a cognitively stimulating home environment. The findings suggest differential pathways in the transmission of family disadvantage, where parenting characteristics were more important in mediating the effect of hardship on behavioural adjustment, than on early cognitive development. Findings are discussed in terms of their policy implications.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/114
2019-05-31T11:08:34Z
llcs:SS
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 145 - 169
Temporary and permanent unit non-response in follow-up interviews of the Health and Retirement Study
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Université du Québec à Montréal
Kapteyn, Arie; RAND Corporation
Smith, James P; RAND Corporation
van Soest, Arthur; Tilburg University
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Selection bias
attrition
panel data
propensity scores
en_US
We study the effects of attrition and other unit non-response in the HRS on inferences about the distribution of socio-economic variables. A feature of the HRS is that efforts are made to bring non-respondents in a particular wave back in the next wave. For cross-section distributions of socio-economic variables of interest in 2004, we find much larger selection effects when discarding this group than when temporary non-respondents are included. A similar conclusion is obtained from our analysis of examples of panel data models, explaining changes in wealth, health, or labor force participation. This has implications for users and designers of the HRS as well as other surveys.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/115
2019-05-31T11:08:34Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 101 - 126
Attrition and health in ageing studies: evidence from ELSA and HRS
Banks, James; Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London
Muriel, Alastair; Institute for Fiscal Studies
Smith, James P; RAND Corporation
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/115
en_US
This paper investigates the characteristics associated with attrition in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic status. We have three main results. Firstly, raw attrition is greater in ELSA than in HRS but the potential survey-based explanations for this that we are able to consider do not, taken together, appear to explain the extent of this difference. Second, these differential attrition rates do not change the core conclusions regarding comparisons between the two countries of health and socioeconomic status. Finally, very few observable characteristics predict attrition in either study among those in their seventies. In the group aged 55-64, wealth appears to predict attrition in the U.S. (but not in England), and low education predicts attrition in England (but not the U.S.). Since the more serious attrition problem exists in ELSA, we conduct additional analysis of attrition in that survey. We find that respondents' level of numeracy strongly predicts attrition, but this does not account for the education gradient in attrition in ELSA.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/116
2019-05-31T11:08:35Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 170 - 184
Proxy interviews and bias in cognition measures due to non-response in longitudinal studies: a comparison of HRS and ELSA
Weir, David R; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Faul, Jessica D; Institute for Social Reseach University of Michigan
Langa, Kenneth M; University of Michigan Medical School & Research Scientist, Ann Arbor VA HSR&D Center of Excellence
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/116
en_US
Cognitive impairment is an important topic for longitudinal studies of aging, and one that directly affects ability to participate. We study bias in measured cognition due to non-response in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). The much greater use of proxy interviews for impaired respondents in the HRS virtually eliminates attrition bias in measured cognition, whereas there is a noticeable bias in ELSA where proxies are infrequently used. Using Medicare claims data for the HRS we are able to compare cognitive impairment among dropouts post-attrition with that for continuing participants. There again we see the use of proxy interviews virtually eliminates a bias that would otherwise appear.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/117
2019-05-31T11:08:35Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 98 - 100
A fishy story: the roles of rods and nets in maintaining representative longitudinal survey samples
Lynn, Peter; Institute for Social and Economic Research
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/117
en_US
This is the editorial.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/118
2019-05-31T11:08:35Z
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2019-05-31T11:08:35Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 127 - 144
A comparison of response rates in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the Health and Retirement Study
Cheshire, Hayley
Ofstedal, Mary Beth; Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Scholes, Shaun; University College London (UCL)
Schröder, Mathis; German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/118
en_US
Survey response rates are an important measure of the quality of a survey; this is true for both longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys. However, the concept of a response rate in the context of a panel survey is more complex than is the case for a cross-sectional survey. There are typically many different response rates that can be calculated for a panel survey, each of which may be relevant for a specific purpose. The main objective of our paper is to document and compare response rates for two long-term panel studies of ageing, the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) in the United States. To guide our selection and calculation of response rates for the two studies, we use a framework that was developed by Peter Lynn (2009) and present several different types of longitudinal response rates for the two surveys. We discuss similarities and differences in the study designs and protocols and how some of the differences affect comparisons of response rates across the two studies.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/119
2018-05-19T20:23:06Z
llcs:SPs
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2018-05-19T20:23:06Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 346 - 355
The German National Educational Panel Study: a wealth of potential for research in school-to-work transitions
Study Profile
Leuze, Kathrin; Social Science Research Centre, Berlin (WZB)
Ludwig-Mayerhofer, Wolfgang; University of Siegen, Faculty of Arts
Solga, Heike; Social Science Research Centre, Berlin (WZB)
2011-08-26
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/119
Education
School-to-work transition
Germany
en_US
Advanced societies in general, and Germany in particular, are faced with many unanswered questions regarding their vocational education and training (VET) systems in terms of access, outcomes, and individual skill formation. Is VET still capable of providing the skills necessary for a successful transition into the labour market? How can low-achieving youth enter and finish vocational training? How do cognitive and non-cognitive competencies develop in the course of VET? At the moment, however, we do not have sufficient longitudinal data to give profound answers to these and other questions. The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), launched in 2008 and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, will provide unique longitudinal data on life histories in combination with measures on competence development over the life course. Within NEPS, the so-called Stage 6, ‘Vocational Education and Training and Transitions into the Labour Market’, is devoted to collecting and providing longitudinal data on the transitions of young people from secondary schools into the labour market. In this paper, we shall describe the main features of the survey design of Stage 6 and discuss the research potential offered by this new type of data.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/122
2018-05-18T16:31:39Z
llcs:PAPS
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2018-05-18T16:31:39Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 185 - 201
Social class returns to higher education: chances of access to the professional and managerial salariat for men in three British birth cohorts
Peer-reviewed Article
Bukodi, Erzsebet; Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, London
Goldthorpe, John; Nuffield College, University of Oxford and Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, London
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/122
social class
higher education
birth cohort studies
en_US
In economics there is a well-established tradition of research into the earnings returns to education. We aim to make a sociological contribution by focusing on the social class returns: specifically, by examining the returns to higher education as indicated by chances of access to the professional and managerial salariat, while also taking into account the effects of cognitive ability and class origins and differences in access to professional and managerial positions. We draw on data for men from three British birth cohort studies covering children born in 1946, 1958 and 1970. We find that while over the period covered the growth of the salariat ensured that absolute returns to both higher and lower tertiary qualifications were largely maintained, despite the growing numbers with such qualifications, returns relative to those to higher secondary qualifications diminished. Also, the advantages offered by lower tertiary qualifications as compared with higher secondary qualifications differ according to men’s class origins. Overall, there is no evidence of any increase in education-based, meritocratic selection to the salariat. Rather, the growth of the salariat appears to be associated with some decline in its selectivity in terms of both qualifications and cognitive ability, with this decline being more marked in its managerial than in its professional components.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/124
2014-11-13T00:10:53Z
llcs:EDIT
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2014-11-13T00:10:53Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 4 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 315-316
Editorial
Editorial
Bynner, John
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/124
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/125
2014-11-13T00:10:55Z
llcs:N+and+E
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2014-11-13T00:10:55Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 4 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 394-396
News, Events and Resources
Raimes, Jane
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en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/126
2014-11-13T00:10:56Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 4 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 339-358
The association of childhood socio-economic position and psychological distress in adulthood: is it mediated by adult socio-economic position?
Peer-reviewed Article
Mckenzie, Sarah Kirsten
Carter, Kristie
Blakely, Tony
Collings, Sunny
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/126
psychological distress
mental health
Kessler 10
childhood socioeconomic position
adulthood socio-economic position
en_US
There is substantial evidence that lower socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with poorer mental health outcomes. However, uncertainties exist about the origins of socioeconomic gradients in mental health problems and the relative contributions of both childhood and adult SEP. In this study we assess the association of childhood SEP with psychological distress in adulthood and investigate how much of this association is mediated by adult SEP.Data for this cross-sectional analysis came from Wave 3 of the Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE) in New Zealand (n=14,470). Childhood SEP was measured using parental occupation recalled at age 10. Non-specific psychological distress was assessed using the Kessler 10 scale (K10). Adult SEP was measured using five socioeconomic indicators (area deprivation, household income, wealth, labour market activity, education). The association of childhood SEP with psychological distress before and after controlling for confounders and adult SEP indicators was determined using logistic regression with the K10 dichotomised at low/moderate versus high/very high. Sensitivity analyses included birth cohort and sex.There was a weak inverse relationship between increasing proportion of psychological distress with lower childhood SEP. Adjusted for age, sex and ethnicity, respondents with low compared to high childhood SEP had 1.35 greater odds of reporting high psychological distress (95% CI 1.13-1.60). Adjustment for adult mediating SEP variables led to a 77% reduction in the excess odds ratio to 1.08 (95% CI 0.90-1.29). The relationship did not significantly differ by birth cohort or sex. This finding is consistent with the current evidence that socioeconomic circumstances in adulthood are important determinants of inequalities in adult mental health and mediate much of the association of childhood SEP with adult psychological distress.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/127
2014-11-13T00:10:57Z
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2014-11-13T00:10:57Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 4 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 317-338
Birth outcomes and early-life social characteristics predict unequal educational outcomes across the life course and across generations
Peer-reviewed Article
Goodman, Anna
Gisselmann, Marit D
Koupil, Ilona
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/127
Birth characteristics
early-life characteristics
education continuation
educational inequalities
inter-generational effects
school achievement
social characteristics
socio-economic position
en_US
We investigated the effects of adverse birth characteristics and social disadvantage upon educational outcomes over the lifecourse and across generations. Our subjects were 12,674 Swedish infants born 1915-1929 and 9,706 of their grandchildren born 1973-1980. Within both cohorts, better school achievement (schoolmarks in elementary school) was predicted by: heavier birthweight, lower birth order, older mother, married mother and higher family social class. These effects persisted after mutual-adjustment, and birth characteristics and family composition did not play a major role in explaining social class effects. There were no independent effects of pre-term or twin status, but weak evidence of a disadvantage to post-term infants. The predictors of education continuation (secondary school attendance and entrance to tertiary education) were very similar, with family composition and social class effects persisting even after adjusting for school achievement. In cross-generational analyses, better educational outcomes in the grandchildren were predicted by heavier birthweight, lower birth order and higher social class in the grandparents. These associations became non-significant and/or were substantially attenuated after adjusting for grandchild socio-economic position in childhood, suggesting that this was the major mechanism for this effect. We conclude that multiple early-life characteristics predict educational outcomes across the lifecourse and across generations. This includes birth characteristics and family composition effects which typically receive far less attention than socio-economic influences. Most effects were remarkably stable across the half-century separating our cohorts, suggesting their potential relevance for understanding educational inequalities in populations around the world.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/128
2014-11-13T00:10:59Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 4 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 359-370
Sex differences in childhood hearing impairment and adult obesity
Peer-reviewed Article
Montgomery, Scott M
Osika, Walter
Brus, Ole
Bartley, Mel
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/128
hearing impairment
cohort
obesity
audiometry
sex-difference
en_US
Some adult neurological complications of obesity may have early-life origins. Here, we examine associations of childhood hearing impairment with childhood and adult obesity, among 3288 male and 3527 female members of a longitudinal cohort born in Great Britain in 1970. Height and weight were measured at age 10 years and self-reported at 34 years. Audiometry was conducted at age 10 years. The dependent variable in logistic regression was minor bilateral hearing impairment as a marker of systemic effects, while BMI at age 10 or 34 years were modelled as independent variables with adjustment for potential confounding factors including social class, maternal education and pubertal development at age 10 years. Among females, the adjusted odds ratios (and 95% confidence intervals) for hearing impairment at age 10 years were 2.33 (1.36-3.98) for overweight/obesity; and at age 34 years they were 1.71 (1.00-2.92) for overweight and 2.73 (1.58-4.71) for obesity and the associations were not explained by Childhood BMI at age 10 years. There were no consistent associations among males and interaction testing revealed statistically significant effect modification by sex. The dose-dependent associations among females are consistent with childhood origins for some obesity-associated impaired neurological function and the possible existence of a ‘pre-obese syndrome'. The accumulation of risks for poorer health among those who become obese in later life begins in childhood. Childhood exposures associated with bilateral hearing impairment are risks for obesity in later life among females.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/130
2014-11-13T00:11:00Z
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2014-11-13T00:11:00Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 4 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
CELSE2010 Abstracts
supplement
Pillas, Demetris
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/130
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/131
2014-11-13T00:11:02Z
llcs:FI
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 4 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 315-396
Full Issue
whole journal
Raimes, Jane
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/131
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/132
2014-11-13T00:11:03Z
llcs:PAPS
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 1 No. 4 (2010): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 371-393
Post-school education and social class destinations in Scotland in the 1950s
Peer-reviewed Article
Paterson, Lindsay
Pattie, Alison
Dearie, Ian
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/132
Scottish Mental Survey
selective secondary schooling
post-school education
occupational attainment
intelligence.
en_US
Data from the 1947 Scottish Mental Survey are used to investigate the relationship between type of secondary school attended and both post-school education up to age 27 and also occupational status by age 27, controlling for social background (social class, parental education, gender), intelligence at age 12, and attitude to school work. The survey was based on a representative sample of all children born in Scotland in 1936. They were first surveyed in 1947 and then almost annually to 1963. The focus of the paper is on the legacies of several waves of reform to secondary education in the first half of the twentieth century. The main research questions are whether the reforms extended access to educational attainment up to age 27 and thus widened access to high-status occupations. These questions are investigated using mainly multiple linear regression. The conclusions are that access was extended, but that people who had attended the older-established secondaries that pre-dated the reforms were more successful educationally and occupationally than people who attended newer foundations, even controlling for social background and intelligence. This effect was especially pronounced for pupils of above-average intelligence, the old schools providing them with particularly pronounced opportunities in adulthood.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/133
2014-11-13T00:11:26Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 202 - 227
Educational attainment, labour market conditions and the timing of births
Peer-reviewed Article
Jenkins, Andrew; Institute of Education, University of London
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/133
fertility
hazard models
education
en_US
This paper presents analyses of the effects of women’s education and the rate of aggregate unemployment on birth hazards using data from the 1958 and 1970 British cohort studies. The hazard of first birth was negatively associated with higher levels of education. Once controls for unobservables were included, there was no relationship between education and the hazard of second births. Lagged unemployment was found to be negatively related to first birth hazards but this was only statistically significant among the later cohort, while for higher order births there was evidence of a positive association with unemployment.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/134
2014-11-13T00:11:40Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:11:40Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 260 - 285
Cross-cohort changes in gender pay differences in Britain from 1972 to 2004: accounting for selection into employment using wage imputation
Peer-reviewed Article
Neuburger, Jenny; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Kuh, Diana; Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing
Joshi, Heather; Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
2011-08-26
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/134
Wages
Gender gaps
Employment
British Birth Cohorts
Sample selection
Imputation
Propensity score matching
en_US
This paper examines trends in the labour market position of British women and men from 1972 to 2004, using micro data from three British Birth Cohort Studies, of 1946, 1958 and 1970. Women’s rates of employment and hourly pay have been lower than men’s over this period, but generally increasing. Because employment decisions are influenced by the level of pay on offer, changes in women’s relative pay in the working population may not be representative of changes in their labour market position. We accounted for selection into employment by imputing missing hourly wages for non-employees using observed wages of employees of the same sex and age with similar work and family histories, matched on their propensity score. At each survey, women’s median hourly pay was lower than men’s. Although relative pay increased across the cohorts, it decreased with age within each cohort. Accounting for selection into employment gave a lower estimate of young women’s potential pay relative to men’s in the two earlier cohorts, flattening the within-cohort profile for the earliest cohort. This evidence supports the view that the improvement in young women’s labour market position since the 1970s has been substantial, and is underestimated in pay trends for the working population.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/137
2014-11-13T00:11:49Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:11:49Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 331 - 345
Incidence of cardiovascular risk factors by education level 2000-2005: the Australian diabetes, obesity, and lifestyle (AusDiab) cohort study
Peer-reviewed Article
Beauchamp, Alison; Monash University
Wolfe, Rory; Monash University
Magliano, Dianna; Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Turrell, Gavin; Queensland University of Technology
Tonkin, Andrew; Monash University
Shaw, Jonathan; Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Peeters, Anna; Monash University
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/137
Socioeconomic status
risk factor incidence
cardiovascular disease
diabetes
obesity
en_US
Lower socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with a higher prevalence of major risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, few longitudinal studies have examined the association between SES and CVD risk factors over time. We aimed to determine whether SES, using education as a proxy, is associated with the onset of CVD risk factors over 5 years in an Australian adult cohort study. Participants in the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle study (AusDiab) study aged 25 years and over who attended both baseline and 5-year follow-up examinations (n=5 967) were categorised according to educational attainment. Cardiovascular risk factor data at both time points were ascertained through questionnaire and physical measurement. Women with lower education had a greater risk of progressing from normal weight to overweight or obesity than those with higher education (age-adjusted OR 1.57, 95% CI 1.06-2.31). Both men and women with lower education were more likely to develop diabetes (age-adjusted OR from higher education 1.75, 95% CI 1.14-2.71 and 3.01, 95% CI 1.26-7.20, respectively). A lower level of education was associated with a greater number of risk factors accumulated over time in women (OR of progressing from having two or less risk factors at baseline to three or more at follow up, 2.04, 95% 1.32-3.14). In this Australian population-based study, lower educational attainment was associated with an increased risk of developing both individual and total CVD risk factors over a 5-year period. These findings suggest that SES inequalities in CVD will persist into the future.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/138
2014-11-14T00:09:32Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-14T00:09:32Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 242 - 259
BMI over the lifecourse and hearing ability at age 45 years: a population based study
Peer-reviewed Article
Ecob, Russell; statistical consultant
Russ, Shirley; Professor of Pediatrics
Davis, Adrian; director and professor
2011-08-26
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/138
Hearing loss
hearing impairment
hearing threshold level
Body Mass Index
noise duration
health inequalities
birth cohort
longitudinal
first differences
thrifty phenotype
lifecourse
en_US
Previous research on anthropometric factors and adult hearing loss has found relationships, in separate studies, to birthweight and contemporary BMI. However no study has examined data on BMI over the lifecourse. This paper uses data from the 1958 British Birth Cohort to examine relationships between BMI (both in childhood and adulthood), changes in BMI between adjacent age waves, and hearing thresholds at 1 kHz and 4 kHz obtained by audiometric examination at age 45 yrs. Body Mass Index (BMI) in adulthood, but not in childhood, was associated with increased hearing threshold levels at both 1 kHz and 4 kHz at age 45yrs. Two further models examine the effect of changes in BMI between successive waves and adult hearing thresholds, firstly adjusting for childhood hearing loss and a range of further childhood factors (including birthweight, family history of hearing loss, mother’s weight, childhood social class) and secondly adjusting in addition for noise, current social class, current systolic blood pressure and diabetes, current smoking and drinking. In the first model, increases in BMI at age intervals throughout the lifecourse, over both childhood and adulthood, were independently associated with increased hearing threshold levels at both frequencies in mid-life, largest relationships being shown at both frequencies to increasing BMI in adolescence and in early adulthood. These relationships generally persisted in the second model, though were reduced more at earlier ages (pre 23 yrs). Noise at work attenuates the relationship between BMI change and mid life hearing threshold, more so at 4 kHz than at 1 kHz and for BMI change at older ages.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/140
2014-11-13T00:11:05Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:11:05Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 19 - 40
The socio-economic gradient in early child outcomes: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study
Peer-reviewed Article
Dearden, Lorraine
Sibieta, Luke
Sylva, Kathy
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/140
Aspirations Educational Attainment
en_US
This paper shows that there are large differences in cognitive development between children from rich and poor backgrounds at the age of 3, and that this gap widens by the age of 5. Children from poor backgrounds also face much less advantageous "early childhood caring environments" than children from better off families. For example we identify differences in poor children's and their mothers' health and well-being (e.g. birth-weight, breast-feeding, and maternal depression); family interactions (e.g. mother child closeness); the home learning environment (e.g. reading regularly to the child); parenting styles and rules (e.g. regular bed-times and meal-times), and experiences of childcare by ages 3 and 5. Differences in the home learning environment, particularly at the age of 3 have an important role to play in explaining why children from poorer backgrounds have lower test scores than children from better off families. However, a much larger proportion of the gap remains unexplained, or appears directly related to other aspects of family background (such as mothers' age, and family size) that are not mediated through the early childhood caring environment.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/141
2014-11-13T00:11:06Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:11:06Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 59 - 76
The role of attitudes and behaviours in explaining socio-economic differences in attainment at age 16
Peer-reviewed Article
Chowdry, Haroon
Crawford, Claire
Goodman, Alissa
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/141
aspirations educational attainment
en_US
It is well known that children growing up in poor families leave school with considerably lower qualifications than children from better off backgrounds. Using a simple decomposition analysis, we show that around two thirds of the socio-economic gap in attainment at age 16 can be accounted for by long-run family background characteristics and prior ability, suggesting that circumstances and investments made considerably earlier in the child's life explain the majority of the gap in test scores between young people from rich and poor families. However, we also find that differences in the attitudes and behaviours of young people and their parents during the teenage years play a key role in explaining the rich-poor gap in GCSE attainment: together, they explain a further quarter of the gap at age 16, and the majority of the small increase in this gap between ages 11 and 16. On this basis, our results suggest that while the most effective policies in terms of raising the attainment of young people from poor families are likely to be those enacted before children reach secondary school, policies that aim to reduce differences in attitudes and behaviours between the poorest children and those from better-off backgrounds during the teenage years may also make a significant contribution towards lowering the gap in achievement between young people from the richest and poorest families at age 16.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/142
2014-11-13T00:11:07Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:11:07Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 41 - 58
The role of attitudes and behaviours in explaining socio-economic differences in attainment at age 11
Peer-reviewed Article
Gregg, Paul
Washbrook, Elizabeth
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/142
Aspirations
educational attainment
en_US
This paper explores the correlates of the socio-economic gradient in children’s educational performance through the primary school years. Thus it sits between the companion papers on pre-school cognitive outcomes and attainment in the secondary school years in this Special Issue. The poorest 20% of children score, on average 14 percentile points lower than the middle 20% in Key Stage 2 tests at age 11, and 31 percentile points lower than the richest 20%. Overall around one third of the attainment gaps by socio-economic background at age 11 are found to emerge after age 7. The evolution of attainment gaps over this period is found to be related a range of attitudes to education and behavioural patterns of the study children. Low maternal aspirations for the child’s final educational attainment are strongly linked to the widening socio-economic gap during these years, over and above their influence on the child’s own measured attitudes and behaviours.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/143
2014-11-13T00:11:09Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:11:09Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 77 - 93
Explaining the socio-economic gradient in child outcomes: the inter-generational transmission of cognitive skills
Peer-reviewed Article
Crawford, Claire
Goodman, Alissa
Joyce, Robert
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/143
cognitive skills
intergenerational transmission
socio-economic gap
en_US
Papers in this Special Issue and elsewhere consistently find a strong relationship between children’s cognitive abilities and their parents’ socio-economic position (SEP). Most studies seeking to explain the paths through which SEP affects cognitive skills suffer from a potentially serious omitted variables problem, as they are unable to account for an important determinant of children’s cognitive abilities, namely parental cognitive ability. A range of econometric strategies have been employed to overcome this issue, but in this paper, we adopt the very simple (but rarely available) route of using data that includes a range of parental characteristics measured during the parents’ childhood, such as parental cognitive ability and social skills. In line with previous work on the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills, we find that parental cognitive ability is a significant predictor of children’s cognitive ability; moreover, it explains one sixth of the socio-economic gap in those skills, even after controlling for a rich set of demographic, attitudinal and behavioural factors. Despite the importance of parental cognitive ability in explaining children’s cognitive ability, however, the additional parental characteristics we examine here do not alter our impression of the relative importance of other factors in explaining the socio-economic gap in cognitive skills. This is reassuring for studies that are unable to control for such characteristics.JEL
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/144
2014-11-13T00:11:10Z
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2014-11-13T00:11:10Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 94 - 97
News, Events and Resources
Raimes, Jane
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/144
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/145
2014-11-13T00:11:12Z
llcs:SUPP
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2014-11-13T00:11:12Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
SLLS 2010 Conference Abstracts
supplement
Raimes, Jane
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/145
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/146
2014-11-13T00:11:14Z
llcs:FI
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2014-11-13T00:11:14Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Full Issue
whole journal
Raimes, Jane
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/146
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/147
2014-11-13T00:11:15Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-13T00:11:15Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 1 - 18
Children’s educational attainment and the aspirations, attitudes and behaviours of parents and children through childhood
Peer-reviewed Article
Goodman, Alissa; IFS
Gregg, Paul; UoB
Washbrook, Elizabeth; UoB
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/147
education
inter-generational transmission
socio-economic gap
en_US
Overview paper for the Special Issue of LLCS
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/148
2014-11-12T15:08:02Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-12T15:08:02Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 137 - 157
Single-sex and co-educational secondary schooling: what are the social and family outcomes, in the short and longer term?
Peer-reviewed Article
Sullivan, Alice; Institute of Education
Joshi, Heather; CLS, Institute of Education, University of London
Leonard, Diana; Institute of Education, University of London
2011-11-08
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/148
Single-sex
co-education
schooling
social
family
NCDS
en_US
This paper considers the question of whether attending a single-sex or co-educational secondary school made any difference to a range of social outcomes for girls and boys at school, and for men and women as they progressed through the life course. We examine these questions using data from a large and nationally representative sample of British respondents born in 1958. The outcomes examined include whether or not the participants liked school; their histories of partnership formation and dissolution; childbearing; attitudes to gender roles; and well-being. Among the minority of outcomes showing a significant link to attending a single sex school were lower truancy, and for males, dislike of school, divorce, and malaise at 42 (if they had been to private or grammar schools).
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/150
2014-11-14T00:09:33Z
llcs:PAPS
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2014-11-14T00:09:33Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 286 - 300
Middle-income families in the economic downturn: challenges and management strategies over time
Peer-reviewed Article
Iversen, Roberta Rehner; University of Pennsylvania
Napolitano, Laura; University of Pennsylvania
Furstenberg, Frank F; University of Pennsylvania
2011-08-26
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/150
Children’s Education
Economic Downturn
Families
Longitudinal
Management Strategies
Middle-Income
Mixed Methods
Recession
en_US
The “Great Recession” has hurt many families across the United States, yet most research has examined its impact on those already considered poor or working poor. However, this recession has affected middle-income families, whose experiences with economic challenge have seldom been looked at in any detail. Such families have been recently called “the new poor,” “the missing middle,” and “families in the middle.” One in seven American children under age 18 (10.5 million) has an unemployed parent as a result of this recession, and because economic mobility for children in the U.S. is affected by their parents’ earning capacities, their mobility potential may be mediated by parents’ strategies for children’s educational futures. The research presented here, which is informed by Weberian stratification theory and capital theories, is based on a longitudinal subset of a larger two-country, multicity, mixed-methods study that used surveys and qualitative semi-structured interviews to explore how middle-income families contend with economic downturn and how their adolescent children’s educational futures might be influenced. Our findings suggest that most families maintain their children’s developmental and educational status quo, but their strategies to do so constrict the potential for educational attainment. As such, the American approach to off-loading much of the cost of higher education to middle-income families who are economically stressed is not viable if we hope to maximize the number of children who will receive mobility-enhancing postsecondary education.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/156
2014-11-14T00:09:35Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 301 - 318
Family caring and children's reading and math skills
Peer-reviewed Article
Michael, Robert; University of Chicago; NORC
2011-08-30
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/156
Investments in children
Intergenerational transmission
Longitudinal studies
Cognitive skills
en_US
This paper investigates the influence of “family caring” on children’s reading and mathematics test scores, controlling for the family’s resources. Family caring is the parents’ habits regarding nurturing their children; it is measured by the behavior of parents during the pregnancy and infancy of their child. Three hypotheses are developed and are empirically tested using three generations of data from the British NCDS. Controlling for family resources, family caring as measured here, is found to be strongly correlated with children’s reading and math skills. There is evidence that particularly low levels of family resources or family caring can be compensated for by larger investments of the other. Since the data cover three generations of the same families, the study documents that the cross-generational correlations in family resources and in family caring behaviors are of approximately the same order of magnitude.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/157
2014-11-13T00:11:27Z
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2014-11-13T00:11:27Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Full Issue
whole journal
Raimes, Jane
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/157
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/158
2014-11-12T15:08:11Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 1 - 4
Guest Editorial: the origins of Understanding Society
Hobcraft, John; University of York
Sacker, Amanda; University of Essex
2011-12-12
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/158
Understanding Society
history
household panel study
en_US
Guest Editorial for the Special Section of LLCS.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/159
2014-11-12T15:08:06Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 5 - 17
Understanding Society: design overview
Buck, Nick; University of Essex
McFall, Stephanie; University of Essex
2011-11-21
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/159
Understanding Society
household panel study
design
en_US
Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, builds on the success of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). This paper describes some of the key elements of the design and conduct of the study and suggests how Understanding Society is distinctive as a longitudinal survey. Its large sample size offers new opportunities to study sub-groups that may be too small for separate analysis on other studies. The new content included in Understanding Society, not least the bio-measures, provides exciting prospects for interdisciplinary research across the social and medical sciences. The Innovation Panel is already proving to be an invaluable resource for research in longitudinal survey methodology. Finally, the inclusion of the BHPS sample within Understanding Society enables this long running panel to continue into the future, opening up inter-generational research and the opportunity to look at very long-term trajectories of change. This paper also describes the four sample components: the general population sample, ethnic minority boost sample, the Innovation Panel, and participants from the BHPS. Each component has a multistage sample designs, mostly with stratification and clustering. A complex weighting strategy is being developed to support varied analyses. This overview also describes the instruments, methods of data collection, and the timetable for data collection. A summary of the survey content’s is provided. With the data becoming available the user community is beginning to benefit from this investment in longitudinal studies.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/160
2014-11-12T15:08:04Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 41 - 65
Limiting long-term illness and subjective well-being in families
Booker, Cara; University of Essex
Sacker, Amanda; University of Essex
2011-11-08
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/160
limiting long-term illness
subjective well-being
family
Understanding Society
en_US
The hedonic definition of subjective well-being (SWB) includes subjective perceptions of moods and cognitive judgements of life satisfaction. Little is known about levels of well-being within families when other family members have a chronic illness. This paper explores these associations. Data come from year 1 wave 1 of Understanding Society, a new longitudinal UK-representative household panel survey. SWB of adults (³ 16 years) was measured using the GHQ-12, the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale and a life satisfaction question. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire measured well-being in youth (10 to 15 years). Self-reported long-term limiting illness (LLTI) was used to indicate chronic illness. Various models incorporating latent variable and multi-level frameworks were used to explore associations between illness and SWB between partners, between older parents and adult children and between young child and parents. LLTI in one partner was negatively associated with own and their partner’s well-being. There was a significant association between a parent’s LLTI and SDQ total difficulties score for youth. These associations were accounted for in part by caring/being cared for and the physical and mental functioning of the family member with a LLTI. Adult children and their older parents did not show any association between LLTI and SWB. The findings from this study indicate that the limiting illness of one family member has differential associations with the well-being of other family members.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/161
2014-11-12T15:08:08Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 18 - 40
Non-employment, age, and the economic cycle
Jenkins, Stephen; The London School of Economics and Political Science
Taylor, Mark; University of Essex
2011-12-02
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/161
BHPS
Understanding Society
Non-employment
Recession
en_US
We describe the relationship between non-employment rates and age in Britain and consider how this relationship has been changing with the economic cycle. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey for survey years 1991–2008 and Understanding Society for 2009, we show that non-employment rates have changed most for people in the youngest and oldest age groups. Young people have been hit particularly hard by the current recession and non-employment rates are higher now than during the early-1990s recession, especially for those without educational qualifications. Among older men and women, non-employment rates have been in longer-term decline and the current recession has had a less marked effect. Hence the U-shaped non-employment/age relationship has rotated clockwise over the last decade.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/162
2014-11-12T15:08:12Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 66 - 79
Understanding sleep among couples: gender and the social patterning of sleep maintenance among younger and older couples
Meadows, Robert; University of Surrey
Arber, Sara; University of Surrey
2011-12-12
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/162
Understanding Society
sleep
couples
gender
en_US
Sleep, which is vital for health and wellbeing, is influenced by a complex array of (neuro)biological and social factors. Previous research has suggested that these factors vary across the life course, as well as being affected by transitions, such as parenthood, care-giving and widowhood. This research has also suggested that many of these transitions have a greater affect on women’s sleep. Yet much of this research has focused on women and one-sided reports of partner behaviours. This paper draws on data from Wave 1 of the Understanding Society Survey to examine gender differences in sleep maintenance within younger and older heterosexual couples. Data were collected in 2009 from a representative sample of households in Britain with a response rate of 59%. Sleep maintenance, namely waking on 3 or more nights per week, was included in a self-completion module. A series of logistic regression models are run using sleep maintenance as a dependent variable; i) a two level model for couples where the male is aged 50 or less (n=2452 couples); ii) a two level model for older couples where the male is aged above 50 (n=1972 couples); iii) bivariate models which allow for odds to be calculated separately for male and female partners. Results from the couple level models illustrate how both younger and older women have increased odds of difficulties with sleep maintenance (as compared to their male partners). Poor sleep maintenance is also associated with poor health, own unemployment, dissatisfaction with income, having had a previous cohabiting relationship and having younger children for both men and women. Reports by the husband of frequency of coughing/snoring at night is significantly associated with their wives’ sleep maintenance among younger couples and vice versa; but among older couples there is only a significant association of husband’s snoring on wife’s sleep. Whilst the current analysis is cross-sectional, further understanding of the dynamic relationships of sleep will be revealed through longitudinal analysis as Understanding Society moves through future waves.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/163
2014-11-12T15:08:14Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 80 - 100
Developing ethnic identity questions for Understanding Society
Nandi, Alita; University of Essex
Platt, Lucinda; Institute for Education
2012-01-09
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/163
identity
measurement
ethnicity
Understanding Society
survey
en_US
Ethnic identity, its formation, expression and consequences are sources of extensive discussion and debate within multicultural societies. Analysis of identity is increasingly finding its way into survey based analysis and is being explored by disciplines beyond psychology, and qualitative and theoretical sociology. However, effective and appropriate survey measures of ethnic identity that are suitable for inclusion in a general purpose sample survey and which allow estimation of change and development across the age range are in short supply. Here, we describe the process of development of a series of new ethnic identity questions, designed specifically for inclusion in Understanding Society but with applicability for longitudinal studies further afield. We detail the rationale for the development and the process by which the final set of questions was arrived at, and outline the implications for future research agendas.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/164
2014-11-12T15:08:05Z
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2014-11-12T15:08:05Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 120 - 136
Understanding panel conditioning: an examination of social desirability bias in self-reported height and weight in panel surveys using experimental data
Uhrig, SC Noah; University of Essex
2011-11-21
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/164
Understanding Society
panel conditioning
self-reported height and weight
quantile-regression
body-mass index
en_US
Typically reliant on self-reports from panel data, a growing body of literature suggests that relative body weight can have negative effects on labour market outcomes. Given the interest in the effects of relative weight in the social sciences, this paper addresses the question of whether repeated interviewing affects the quality of these data. A theory that focuses on the sensitivity of the questions rather than the survey context is proposed. Examining experimental panel data from Understanding Society using quantile-regression, the findings for women are consistent with the argument that conditioning reduces social desirability effects. The ameliorative effects of panel conditioning on social desirability bias in self-reported height and bodyweight appear to strengthen the association between relative weight and employment for men, but not women, however.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/165
2014-11-12T15:08:09Z
llcs:SS
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2014-11-12T15:08:09Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 101 - 119
Family factors, bullying victimisation and wellbeing in adolescents
Wolke, Dieter; University of Warwick
Skew, Alexandra J; University of Essex
2011-12-02
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/165
Understanding Society
bullying
victimisation
parenting
family
siblings
material deprivation
en_US
Bullying victimisation during adolescence has been found to be associated with a range of individual factors. In contrast, family factors have been poorly investigated or findings have been contradictory. Even less is known about factors related to victimisation in the home by siblings. A range of family factors and their relationship to bullying victimisation in school and at home was investigated in 2,163 adolescents 10-15 years old within the Understanding Society sample. Approximately 12% were victims of bullying in school overall, 4.8% of direct and 10% of relational bullying. In contrast, sibling bullying was widespread with half of all children with siblings involved in bullying each other. In particular bully/victims at home and those victimized at school were at increased risk for behaviour problems in the clinical range and were significantly less happy. Sibling bullying was found to be related to sibling composition, in particular the number of siblings and presence of brothers and to less or negative parental involvement, while school bullying was more frequent in those growing up in material deprivation at home and who were bullied by their siblings. Strengthening families and parenting skills and increasing sibling support may reduce bullying in school and increase wellbeing.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/170
2014-11-12T15:08:18Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 254-267
Father involvement, family poverty and adversity, and young children’s behaviour in intact two-parent families
Peer-reviewed Article
Flouri, Eirini
Malmberg, Lars-Erik
2012-03-21
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/170
child behaviour
cross-lags
fathers
MCS
parenting
temperament
en_US
Using data from the first two sweeps of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) we explored the association between father involvement and young children’s emotional and behavioural adjustment among continuously two-parent families (N = 9,498). We also investigated the role of father involvement in moderating the association between contextual risk (family-level adverse life events and family-level socio-economic disadvantage) and young children’s adjustment. We found that early father involvement was negatively associated with later emotional symptoms, but no other problem behaviour, and dampened the effect of socio-economic disadvantage, but not adverse life events, on emotional symptoms. Our findings highlighted the importance of considering specificity at both child outcome and contextual risk levels when modelling father involvement effects.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/173
2014-11-14T00:09:36Z
llcs:BR
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2014-11-14T00:09:36Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 356 - 360
Book Review Symposium: A Companion to Life Course Studies: the social and historical context of the British birth cohort studies. Michael Wadsworth and John Bynner
Non-refereed Book Review
Goldthorpe, John
Murray, Emily T
Maughan, Barbara
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/173
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/174
2014-11-14T00:09:38Z
llcs:EDIT
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2014-11-14T00:09:38Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 240 - 241
Editorial: present and future prospects
Editorial
Bynner, John
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/174
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/175
2014-11-14T00:09:40Z
llcs:FI
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2014-11-14T00:09:40Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Full Issue
whole journal
Raimes, Jane
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/175
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/178
2014-11-12T15:08:32Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 346 - 358
Life course influences on quality of life at age 50 years: evidence from the National Child Development Study (1958 British birth cohort study)
Research Notes
Blane, David; Imperial College London; ESRC International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health.
Webb, Elizabeth; Imperial college London; ESRC International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health.
Wahrendorf, Morten; University of Dusseldorf; ESRC International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health.
Netuveli, Gopalakrishnan; Imperial College London;
ESRC International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health.
2012-08-09
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National Child Development Study
Life course
CASP measure of positive quality of life at older ages
Third Age.
en_US
The objectives of this study were to investigate whether prospective data reveal life course influences on quality of life at older ages; to establish a baseline for the evolution of quality of life through the Third Age; and to estimate the relative importance of direct and indirect effects in these life course relationships. We used the age 50 years sweep of the National Child Development Study (1958 British birth cohort study) that included the CASP measure of positive quality of life at older ages, allowing prospective path analysis of life course influences on quality of life at the start of the Third Age. We found that material (social class; deprivation) and psycho-social (family conflict; family fracture) circumstances in childhood and adulthood were linked using path analysis to CASP scores at age 50 years. The strength of these relationships was modest; and their influence was primarily indirect via well-recognised contemporaneous factors. Prospective data revealed life course influences on quality of life at the start of the Third Age. We conclude that the influence of these longitudinal factors is weak in comparison with that of contemporaneous circumstances. In this respect quality of life differs from health.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/179
2014-11-12T15:08:29Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 298 - 311
Parental education and adult health outcomes: a cohort study examining disease-specific effects of education levels using Swedish nationwide registries across two generations
Peer-reviewed Article
Koffijberg, Hendrik; University Medical Center Utrecht
Adami, Johanna; Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine at the Karolinska University Hospital
Buskens, Erik; Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Centre Groningen
Palme, Mårten; Department of Economics, Stockholm University
2012-08-08
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/179
Intergenerational
Education
Life Course Study
Pathway hypothesis
en_US
It is well known that children with less educated parents have inferior health status in later life. There are two competing hypotheses explaining the association found: the pathway hypothesis – suggesting that children from low educated households are more likely to obtain less education themselves, which, in turn, is associated with inferior health outcomes – and the life course hypothesis – suggesting that living conditions during childhood, as such affected by parental education level, is important for the formation of adult health status. We obtained data from National Swedish registries comprising health outcomes of individuals born between 1940 and 1949, and the Swedish Multi-generation Register. We assessed the differences in risk of hospital admission for individuals with low and high parental education as well as low and high own education. We found that for higher educated individuals, high parental education is associated with even better health outcomes: having a high versus low educated mother or high versus low educated father was associated with an overall decrease in the risk (hazard rate) of hospital admission by 5% (95% CI 0.91-0.98) and 3% (95% CI 0.95-0.99), respectively. This indicates that children from a relatively disadvantaged background, signaled by lower parental educational attainment, are more likely to continue accumulating risk throughout life. Even if they have higher qualifications they may still have a greater accumulation of risk, compared with other highly qualified children from a less disadvantaged background. We found that this effect is primarily attributed to circulatory diseases, and would appear to support the life course hypothesis. We conclude that parental education and ensuing early childhood or even fetal living conditions have a persistent effect on adult health.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/180
2014-11-12T15:08:26Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 211-227
Patterns of adult roles, their antecedents and psychosocial wellbeing correlates among Finns born in 1959
Räikkönen, Eija; University of Jyväskylä
Kokko, Katja; University of Jyväskylä
Chen, Meichu; Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Pulkkinen, Lea; University of Jyväskylä
2012-05-21
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/180
adult roles
childhood
early adulthood
psychosocial well-being
en_US
The study aimed to identify patterns of adult role combinations across the transitional domains of housing, educational attainment, work, partnership, and parenthood at age 27, and to investigate their antecedents and concurrent psychosocial well-being correlates. Data were derived for 354 Finns (born in 1959) from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development. Three latent classes were identified: Work-orientation with delayed parenthood (WO; 46%; completed adult transitions of independent living, education, work, and partnership), Traditional work and family (35%; completed all five adult transitions), and Academic track with no children (AT; 19%; completed independent living, education, work, and partnership transitions). Individuals in the Traditional pattern were more likely to be women, whereas individuals in the AT and WO patterns were more likely to be men. The socio-economic status (SES) and structure of the family of origin did not differentiate the patterns, but individuals in the AT pattern had had higher school success and educational aspirations in adolescence than those in the other patterns. Early adult life satisfaction and career stability were higher, and depressive symptoms and binge drinking lower in the Traditional pattern than in WO. Life satisfaction was also higher in AT than in WO.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/181
2014-11-12T15:08:20Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 173-189
Becoming adults in Britain: lifestyles and wellbeing in times of social change
Schoon, Ingrid; Institute of Education
University of London
Dep. of Quantitative Social Science
Chen, Meichu; University of Michigan
Kneale, Dylan; International Longevity Centre
Jager, Justin; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
2012-05-11
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/181
comparative
longitudinal
social change
transitions
wellbeing
en_US
This study examines variations in the combination of social roles in early adulthood and their association with mental health, subjective wellbeing, and alcohol use in two nationally representative British birth cohorts, born in 1970 (n=9,897) and 1958 (n=9,171). Using latent class analysis (LCA) we develop a typology of variations in the combination of educational attainment, employment status, housing, relationship and parenthood status of cohort members in their mid-twenties. We also assess the role of early socialisation experiences and teenage life planning as predictors of these status role combinations, and link transition outcomes by age 26 to measures of alcohol use, mental health and wellbeing. In both cohorts we identified five distinct profiles: ‘work-orientation without children’, ‘traditional families’, ‘fragile families’, ‘highly educated without children’, and ‘slow starters’. These profiles are predicted by family social background, gender, own educational expectations and exam performance at age 16. The findings suggest that in both cohorts, high levels of life satisfaction are associated with either ‘work orientation without children’ or ‘traditional family’ life, suggesting that there are different transition strategies enabling individuals to become well-adjusted adults.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/183
2014-11-12T15:08:24Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 190-210
Social role patterning in early adulthood in the USA: adolescent predictors and concurrent wellbeing across four distinct configurations
Maggs, Jennifer L; Pennsylvania State University
Jager, Justin; National Institutes of Health
Patrick, Megan E; University of Michigan
Schulenberg, John; University of Michigan
2012-05-18
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/183
Social roles
transition to adulthood
late adolescence
latent class analysis
longitudinal
cross-national
substance use
en_US
The decade following secondary school is pivotal in setting the stage for adulthood functioning and adjustment. We identify four social role configurations of early adults in their mid-20s using latent class analyses in two nationally representative samples of American youth in their last year of secondary education (modal age 18) who were followed longitudinally into adulthood (age 25/26). We focus on the big five social role domains of early adulthood: education, residential status, employment, cohabitation/marriage, and parenthood. Aims were to identify latent classes of social role configurations in early adulthood, examine demographic and late adolescent educational predictors of these classes, and explore contemporaneous health and adjustment correlates focusing on life satisfaction, economic independence, and substance use. Four classes with very similar characteristics and prevalence were identified in the two cohorts who were born 12 years apart: Educated Students without Children (8% in 80s cohort/9% in 90s cohort); Working Singles Living with Parents (16%/18%); Educated Workers without Children (45%/46%); and Married Workers with Children (31%/27%). Late adolescent demographic and educational variables and mid-20s variables were related to class membership. Results evidenced notable similarities (and some differences) across cohorts. Discussion focuses on how roles facilitate or inhibit each other and the potential diversity of optimal patterns of transitions to adulthood.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/184
2014-11-12T15:08:23Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 228-242
Role configurations in young adulthood, antecedents, and later wellbeing among Finns born in 1966
Salmela-Aro, Katariina; Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
Taanila, Anja; University of Oulu
Ek, Ellen; University of Oulu
Chen, Meichu; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2012-05-16
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/184
adult roles
childhood
early adulthood
psychosocial well-being
en_US
The aim of this study was to identify latent classes of role configurations among Finnish cohort members born in 1966, based on education, employment, housing, marital status, and parenthood, and to investigate their antecedents and individual psychosocial wellbeing outcomes. Data from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (NFBC66) (N= 11, 825) were used to identify the latent classes at the age of 25–26, together with register data on education, employment, partnership, and parenthood from official registers, and data from a postal questionnaire on living arrangements, administered at age 31, and used as proxies for the 25 to 26 year old situation. Four classes were identified by latent class analysis. Multinomial logistic regression was used to investigate the classes’ association with their antecedent conditions and logistic/ordered logistic regression with their wellbeing outcomes.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/187
2014-11-12T15:08:30Z
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2014-11-12T15:08:30Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 332 - 345
The effects of marital status transitions on alcohol use trajectories
Peer-reviewed Article
Liew, Hui; Mississippi State University
2012-08-08
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/187
aging
a semi-parametric mixture modeling
marital transition
alcohol use.
en_US
This study aims to exploit the longitudinal nature of the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS), using a semi-parametric mixture modeling (SPMM) approach to examine whether the presence of marital transitions has an impact on alcohol use trajectories among the elderly. The empirical work of this study is based on the 1994-2008 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Findings provide support to the marriage protection effect: for both elderly men and women, remaining divorced or widowed had detrimental effects on alcohol consumption. Findings also concur with the potential roles of assortive mating / marital homophily: having a drinking spouse increased alcohol consumption.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/188
2014-11-12T15:08:17Z
llcs:SPs
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2014-11-12T15:08:17Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 268-284
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: overview, recent innovations, and potential for life course research
Study Profile
McGonagle, Katherine A; Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Schoeni, Robert F; Institute for Social Research, Department of Economics, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Sastry, Narayan; Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Freedman, Vicki A; Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
2012-03-02
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/188
panel study
life course
data collection
human development
time use
young adulthood
aging
en_US
Spanning over four decades, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the world’s longest running household panel survey. The resulting data archive presents research opportunities for breakthroughs in understanding the connections between economic status, health and well-being across generations and over the life course. The long panel, genealogical design, and broad content of the data represent a unique opportunity for a multi-perspective study of life course evolution and change within families over multiple generations. Based on relational data structures and advanced web-based archiving and delivery tools, the PSID has a publicly available web-based facility for users worldwide to create customized data extracts and codebooks based on nearly 70,000 variables from over 70,000 individuals over 44 years. This paper provides an overview of the PSID and its supplemental studies, the Disability and Use of Time Supplement, the Child Development Supplement, and the Transition into Adulthood study, and describes features and recent enhancements that have increased the potential of the archive for studying life course development.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/190
2014-11-12T15:08:15Z
llcs:CD
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2014-11-12T15:08:15Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 158 - 161
Changing times, life course shifts
Wadsworth, Michael; Longview
Bynner, John; Longview and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London
2012-01-16
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/190
Longitudinal research
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/191
2014-11-14T00:09:42Z
llcs:SUPP
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2014-11-14T00:09:42Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
SLLS 2011 Bielefeld Conference Abstracts
supplement
Raimes, Jane
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/191
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/192
2014-11-14T00:09:43Z
llcs:FI
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2014-11-14T00:09:43Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Volume 3 Issue 1 complete
whole journal
Raimes, Jane
Authors who published with Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Volumes 1–9 agreed to the following terms:1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.2. Following first publication in this Journal, Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, provided always that no charge is made for its use.3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/192
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/194
2014-11-12T15:08:21Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 164-172
The transition to adulthood across time and space: overview of Special Section
Schulenberg, John Eugene; University of Michigan
Schoon, Ingrid; Institute of Education, University of London
2012-05-15
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/194
transition to adulthood
international
historical change
en_US
In this Special Section of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, we provide complementary findings from four well-established national and community-based studies about distinct patterns of social role combinations in early adulthood, along with the antecedents and health and well-being correlates of the distinct patterns (Maggs et al 2012, Räikkönen, Kokko and Pulkkinen 2012, Salmela-Aro, Ek and Chen 2012, Schoon et al 2012). Collectively, our data span two birth cohorts (born 1958-59 and 1966-70) and three countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, and Finland, with each birth cohort represented in each country. This opportunity to compare and contrast patterns of transition outcomes across time and across cultures provides us with leverage on the understanding of the transition to adulthood, not typically available. Across the studies, longitudinal data span childhood through early adulthood. Each study focuses on identifying distinct patterns of role combinations by ages 25-27 in terms of the “big 5" transition markers (Settersten 2007) comprising educational attainment, work status, independent living, romantic partnership, and parenthood. It has been argued that country differences in completing the five transition markers are largest around age 25 and relatively small before age 20 and after age 35 (Cook and Furstenberg 2002). Examining transition outcomes and role combinations of cohort members in their mid-20s thus provides a unique snapshot and important insights into similarities and differences in transition experiences of young people growing up in different cultural contexts and in different historical periods. For example, consistent with previous research (Osgood et al 2005, Ross et al 2009), some common patterns we found include "traditional family" (limited college, full-time employed or homemaker, independent from parents, married or cohabiting, and with children) and "work orientation without children" (college graduate, full-time employed, independent from parents, average rates of marriage and cohabitation, and no children). Each study also examines the demographic and educational antecedents and psychosocial correlates/outcomes of the patterns (including well-being and substance use). As will be shown, we find some expected differences across countries and cohorts in terms of configurations and prevalences of the distinct patterns, along with some remarkable similarities across time and space in these patterns and their antecedents and correlates. To set the stage for the empirical papers in this Special Section, we provide an overview regarding the transition to adulthood in developmental, historical, and international context. We furthermore discuss methodological opportunities and challenges involved in describing life course patterns and doing comparative research. We conclude with consideration of theoretical and methodological implications.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/195
2014-11-14T00:09:49Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 359 - 368
Parental separation and adult psychological distress: evidence for the 'reduced effect' hypothesis?
Research Notes
Lacey, Rebecca Emily; International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health, Dept. Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London
Bartley, Mel; International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health, Dept. Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London
Pikhart, Hynek; Dept. Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London
Stafford, Mai; MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, London
Cable, Noriko; International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health, Dept. Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London
Coleman, Lester; One Plus One, London
2012-09-10
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/195
parental divorce
psychological distress
NCDS
BCS
cohort differences
parental separation
gender
en_US
Parental separation has been linked to increased likelihood of reporting psychological distress in adulthood, but relatively little is known about how this association may have changed over time. One hypothesis is that as the experience of separation has become more common, the association with psychological distress will reduce (the ‘reduced effect’ hypothesis). Previous evidence using the British birth cohorts does not support this hypothesis, but past studies have several limitations which we aim to address. In this study we measure parental separation from birth, account for missing data and statistically test cohort differences using data from two British birth cohorts – the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) and 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS). Despite these methodological improvements, we find little evidence to support the ‘reduced effect’ hypothesis: parental separation was associated with a similarly increased likelihood of reporting psychological distress in adulthood for men and women in both cohorts.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/196
2014-11-14T00:09:44Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 285-296
Social class returns to higher education: comments on a paper by Bukodi and Goldthorpe with a response from the authors
Goldstein, INTRODUCTION: Harvey
Clarke, COMMENTARIES: Paul
Solga, Joscha Legewie and Heike
Bukodi, RESPONSE: Erzebet
Goldthorpe, John H
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/196
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/198
2014-11-12T15:08:33Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 312 - 331
Can we spot deleterious ageing in two waves of data? The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 from ages 70 to 73
Peer-reviewed Article
Johnson, Wendy
Gow, Alan
Corley, Janie
Redmond, Paul
Henderson, Ross
Murray, Catherine
Starr, John
Deary, Ian
2012-09-03
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/198
cognitive ability
health
longitudinal data
ageing
mortality
en_US
‘Younger’ old age (the late 60s through early 70s) is, for many, a period of stability of lifestyle and considerable freedom to pursue leisure activities. Despite the stability that many enjoy, the mortality rate is about 2% per year in western nations. This increases to about 5% by age 80. It would be useful to know if those most vulnerable can be identified through patterns of deleterious ageing, and especially if this could be accomplished with just two waves of data. The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 was surveyed on a host of individual difference variables including cognition, personality, biomarkers of physical health, and activities at ages 70 and 73 years. Overall, the group showed the expected basic stability in mean levels for these variables, but some individuals had died and others did show substantial changes that could be considered statistically reliable. These presumably reliable changes were at least as likely to be positive (reflecting improved condition/ability) as negative (reflecting decline/ageing). Moreover, limitations in the estimated reliabilities of the measures meant that most of the observed changes could not be considered reliable. The changes clustered only weakly around general health to predict death over the next approximately two years. We concluded that two waves of longitudinal data were not sufficient to assess meaningful patterns of ageing, despite often being used to do so.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/203
2014-11-12T15:08:27Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 243-253
Role statuses and transitions in adolescence and young adulthood: reflections and implications
Bynner, John; Institute of Education, London
2012-05-21
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/203
Comparative
Longitudinal
Life course
Youth Transitions
Role Statuses
Latent Class Analysis
en_US
The reflections begin by considering the methodological challenges in undertaking comparative youth transition research as exemplified by the Special Section papers. The paper then moves to the findings of the analysis reported and their interpretation in context. The final sections discuss substantive and methodological issues raised by the research and finish with some conclusions about next steps in what needs to be a continuing comparative programme.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/206
2014-11-14T00:09:46Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 162-3
Editorial
Editorial
Bynner, John; Institute of Education, London
2012-05-24
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/206
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/207
2014-11-14T00:09:47Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 162-296
Full Issue
whole journal
Raimes, Jane
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/207
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/208
2014-11-12T15:08:34Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 369 - 381
The HILDA Survey: a case study in the design and development of a successful Household Panel Survey
Study Profile
Watson, Nicole; University of Melbourne
Wooden, Mark Peter; University of Melbourne
2012-09-25
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/208
Australia
HILDA Survey
Household panel surveys
Longitudinal survey research
en_US
The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey is one of only a small number of well established, large nationally representative household panel studies conducted in the world. With annual data collection commencing in 2001 there are now over 10 years of unit record data available to researchers, with the promise of many more to come. While the design of the HILDA Survey owes much to other older household panel studies conducted elsewhere, it has a number of features which make it relatively unique. This paper provides a brief history of the HILDA Survey’s progress to date, focusing first on its design, content and data collection processes, before reviewing its achievements with respect to survey response and usage.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/209
2014-11-12T15:10:18Z
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2014-11-12T15:10:18Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 17 - 32
Comprehensive education, social attitudes and civic engagement
Peer-reviewed Article
Paterson, Lindsay; University of Edinburgh
2012-12-11
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/209
Comprehensive school
selective school
civic values
Britain
longitudinal analysis.
en_US
The claims made for comprehensive secondary schooling in Britain have tended to invoke three kinds of rationale – relating to attainment, social mobility and the creation of an integrated or harmonious society. Much research attention has been given to the first of these, and in particular to whether comprehensive schooling reduces social inequalities of attainment and progression. Some attention, notably very recently (Boliver & Swift, 2011), has been given to the second, following from the work on attainment. The third has been somewhat neglected, and is the topic of this paper. Attempts are made to distinguish between general effects of education on civic-mindedness – in the sense that, for example, on the whole, better-educated people tend to be more liberal, respectful of diversity, and so on – and the effects specifically associated with having attended a non-selective school or non-selective system. As with the recent research on comprehensive education and social mobility, long-term effects are of greater relevance to the claims made for the consequences of comprehensive schooling than the effects in late adolescence or early adulthood. The data source is the British National Child Development Study.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/214
2014-11-12T15:10:31Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 4 No. 3 (2013): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 180-195
Childhood friendships and the clustering of adverse circumstances in adulthood - a longitudinal study of a Stockholm cohort
Peer-reviewed Article
Almquist, Ylva B; Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS)
Brännström, Lars; Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University
2013-07-09
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/214
Childhood
friendship
living conditions
life course
cohort
cluster analysis
en_US
Friendships constitute a central feature of childhood, yet little is known about the developmental significance extending beyond childhood and adolescence. The aim of the present study was therefore to investigate the association between childhood friendships and adult outcomes. Since many outcomes in adulthood go hand in hand, the outcome pattern as a whole was targeted. Based on a longitudinal data material consisting of more than 14,000 individuals born in Stockholm in 1953, a cluster analysis of adult circumstances (1992-2007) was first conducted. Second, the association between three indicators of childhood friendships (1966) and the outcome profiles was analysed by means of multinomial regression analysis. The results indicated that children who lacked leisure time friends and a best friend in the school class had increased risks of ending up in the more adverse clusters as adults, whereas the opposite association was found for those who reported being solitary. The effect of childhood friendships was rather consistent across both single and multiple problems, suggesting that the disadvantages of being without friends in childhood do not accumulate over the life course to any large extent. Generally, the results were the same for males and females. It is concluded that childhood friendships are important for adverse circumstances in adulthood, for both genders. As far as the long-lasting effects of children's friendships involve varying access to social support, school-based interventions should compensate for the scarcity of support following the lack of childhood friends.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/216
2014-11-12T15:10:22Z
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 57 - 77
Trajectories of life satisfaction and the financial situation in the transition to adulthood
Peer-reviewed Article
Ranta, Mette; Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
Chow, Angela; University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Salmela-Aro, Katariina; Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
2013-01-17
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/216
Young Adulthood
Life Satisfaction
Agency
Developmental Trajectories
Longitudinal Study
Financial Situation
Person-Oriented Approach
Growth Mixture Modelling
en_US
The aims of this study were (1) to investigate young adults’ life satisfaction changes during the transition to adulthood, (2) to identify possible life satisfaction developmental trajectories during the transition, and (3) to examine how individuals’ agency and personal financial situations are related to the identified life satisfaction trajectories in the contexts of life-span and life course theories of development. The present study is part of the longitudinal Finnish Educational Transitions (FinEdu) study, in which a total of 372 (278 female and 94 male) young adults filled in questionnaires at four measurement points, that is, twice before (at 18 and 19 years of age) and twice after (at 20 and 22 years of age) the transition from upper secondary high school to tertiary education and/or employment. Growth Mixture Modelling revealed five trajectories of life satisfaction: low-stable (8%), moderate-stable (41%), high-stable (27%), moderate-increasing (17%), and high-decreasing (7%). The vast majority (76%) of young adults had a stable life satisfaction trajectory throughout the transition. High levels of achievement approach strategies at age 19 were somewhat related to high-decreasing and high-stable life satisfaction trajectories. In turn, those using achievement avoidance strategies at age 19 were more likely to have low-stable or moderately-increasing life satisfaction trajectories. Positive life satisfaction trajectories were related to being in a positive financial situation at age 22. The two largest trajectories indicated better objective and subjective financial situations than did the other trajectories.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/217
2014-11-12T15:10:16Z
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2014-11-12T15:10:16Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 4 - 16
Childhood obesity: socioeconomic inequalities and consequences for later cardiovascular health
Peer-reviewed Article
Howe, Laura D; University of Bristol
2012-12-05
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/217
socioeconomic factors
obesity
cardiovascular diseases
cardiovascular system
child
adolescent
ALSPAC
en_US
The last few decades have seen a dramatic rise in the prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents. Being overweight or obese as a child poses considerable long-term risks, particularly for cardiovascular health. Historically, obesity was a disease of affluence. Today, both adults and children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds tend to be more overweight in high-income settings. In this essay, we present analysis of three research questions using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a cohort of children born in the south west of the UK in 1991/2. Firstly, we review previously published results examining the age at which socioeconomic inequalities in adiposity emerge. Secondly, we discuss previously published evidence of socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular risk factors when the participants were age 10 years. And finally, we present new findings on the tracking of overweight/obesity across childhood and adolescence, and whether this differs across socioeconomic groups. Our findings show that socioeconomic differences in adiposity and cardiovascular risk factors emerge at a much earlier age than in older generations. If children are overweight/obese at age 7, there is a very low probability that they will return to a healthy weight by age 15 – although this is similar across socioeconomic groups. Together, these findings suggest an urgent need to prevent obesity at an early age, particularly amongst disadvantaged groups, in order to prevent wide socioeconomic differences in cardiovascular health in later life.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/218
2014-11-12T15:10:19Z
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2014-11-12T15:10:19Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 78 - 85
Gender, justice and domestic work: life course transitions and perceptions of fairness
Research Notes
Baxter, Janeen; University of Queensland
Haynes, Michele; University of Queensland
Western, Mark; University of Queensland
Hewitt, Belinda; University of Queensland
2013-01-07
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/218
fairness
housework
transitions
en_US
This paper investigates changes in perceptions of housework fairness as men and women transition from cohabitation to marriage and experience the birth of a child. Using four waves of data from the Negotiating the Life Course project in Australia, we assess how marriage and parenthood alter perceptions of housework fairness. Consistent with previous research we find that the majority of men and women report that the division of labour at home is fair, despite women spending twice as much time on housework as men. Our results show no changes in perceptions of fairness in relation to marital transitions and only weak evidence of changes in relation to parenthood transitions. We conclude that perceptions of housework fairness are not based on an equal sharing of tasks, but are better understood in terms of equity and distributive justice.
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/220
2014-11-14T00:09:50Z
llcs:BR
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Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 382 - 385
History of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) c. 1980-2000
Non-refereed Book Review
Bynner, John; Institute of Education, London
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/220
en_US
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/221
2014-11-12T15:10:23Z
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2014-11-12T15:10:23Z
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2013): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 119 - 135
Design and characteristics of a new birth cohort, to study the early origins and ethnic variation of childhood obesity: the BiB1000 study
Study Profile
Bryant, Maria; CTRU, University of Leeds, Leeds and Institute of Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Santorelli, Gill; Institute of Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford,
Fairley, Lesley; Institute of Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford
West, Jane; Institute of Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford
Lawlor, Debbie A; MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol
Bhopal, Raj; Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Petherick, Emily; Institute of Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford
Sahota, Pinki; Nutrition and Dietetics, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds
Hill, Andrew; Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds
Cameron, Noel; School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough
Small, Neil; School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford
Wright, John; Institute of Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford
Scientific Group, the Born in Bradford Childhood Obesity; Includes: Authors, plus, Amanda Farrin, Helen Ball, Carolyn Summerbell, Sally Barber, Diane Farrar and Rosie McEachan
2013-05-22
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url:http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/221
cohort
ethnicity
childhood
obesity
prevention
South Asia
en_US
Epidemiological evidence indicates that early life factors are important for obesity development but there are gaps in knowledge regarding the impact of exposures during pregnancy and early life, especially in South Asian children. There is a corresponding lack of evidence to guide development of culturally-appropriate, obesity prevention programmes. This paper describes the methodology and characteristics of participants in Born in Bradford 1000 (BiB1000), a nested cohort of the Born in Bradford prospective birth cohort. BiB1000 aims to enable a deep and extensive understanding of the predictors and influences of health-related behaviours to develop a culturally-specific obesity prevention intervention. 1,735 mothers agreed to take part in detailed assessments focused on risk factors of obesity. Of these, 1,707 had singleton births. Data were collected from the families during pregnancy, at birth and when the infant was aged 6, 12, 18, 24 and 36 months. Approximately half of the mothers (n=933) are of South Asian ethnicity; of which, just under half were born in the UK. Prevalence of obesity in BiB1000 is similar to the full BiB cohort and to UK national averages. In addition to pre-specified hypothesised targets for obesity prevention, (e.g. parental feeding styles, diet and activity), BiB1000 is exploring qualitative determinants of behaviours andother exposures with a lesser evidence base (e.g. food environments, sleep, parenting practices). These data will enable a rich understanding of the behaviours and their determinants in order to inform the development of a culturally-relevant, childhood obesity prevention intervention.
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