2024-03-28T14:09:58Z
http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/oai
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/49
2018-05-19T20:30:38Z
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Emotional and behavioural problems in childhood and risk of overall and cause-specific morbidity and mortality in middle-aged Finnish men
Kauhanen, Laura Anniina
Leino, Janne
Lakka, Hanna-Maaria
Lynch, John William
Kauhanen, Jussi
cancer
cardiovascular disease
mortality
population studies
psychosocial factors
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.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2011-05-26
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/49
10.14301/llcs.v2i2.49
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2011): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 228 - 239
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/49/134
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/178
2014-11-12T15:08:32Z
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Life course influences on quality of life at age 50 years: evidence from the National Child Development Study (1958 British birth cohort study)
Blane, David
Webb, Elizabeth
Wahrendorf, Morten
Netuveli, Gopalakrishnan
National Child Development Study
Life course
CASP measure of positive quality of life at older ages
Third Age.
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.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2012-08-09
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/178
10.14301/llcs.v3i3.178
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 3 No. 3 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 346 - 358
1757-9597
eng
http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/178/217
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/195
2014-11-14T00:09:49Z
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Parental separation and adult psychological distress: evidence for the 'reduced effect' hypothesis?
Lacey, Rebecca Emily
Bartley, Mel
Pikhart, Hynek
Stafford, Mai
Cable, Noriko
Coleman, Lester
parental divorce
psychological distress
NCDS
BCS
cohort differences
parental separation
gender
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.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2012-09-10
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/195
10.14301/llcs.v3i3.195
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 3 No. 3 (2012): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 359 - 368
1757-9597
eng
http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/195/218
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/218
2014-11-12T15:10:19Z
llcs:RN
Gender, justice and domestic work: life course transitions and perceptions of fairness
Baxter, Janeen
Haynes, Michele
Western, Mark
Hewitt, Belinda
fairness
housework
transitions
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.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2013-01-07
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/218
10.14301/llcs.v4i1.218
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 78 - 85
1757-9597
eng
http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/218/226
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/232
2014-11-12T15:10:42Z
llcs:RN
Assessing recall of early life circumstances: evidence from the National Child Development Study
Brown, Matt
Methodology
Recall
Retrospective
Cross-sectional studies and longitudinal studies alike make regular use of retrospective questions about childhood circumstances. However, little is known about the accuracy with which adults can recall this kind of information. This paper seeks to address this topic by comparing retrospective reports of the number of people and the number of rooms in one’s household at age 11 provided by 50 year old members of a birth cohort study, with responses provided contemporaneously by their parents. The paper demonstrates encouraging levels of consistency between retrospective and contemporaneous reports. By examining reports of number of rooms provided by parents living at the same address in two earlier sweeps of the study (at ages 7 and 11), the paper shows that responses to contemporaneous questions may also be inconsistent, suggesting that retrospective questions of this nature may not be hugely less reliable. A retrospective measure of overcrowding at age 11 is derived using the two variables, and compared with a contemporaneous measure. The two measures lead to the same estimate of the extent of overcrowding, but when used in a model examining the odds of experiencing lung problems as an adult, the two measures behave differently. The paper also demonstrates that there are particular groups who are more likely to provide inconsistent responses than others. Around one in five participants were identified as having particularly poor recall, and the likelihood of being in this group was considerably higher amongst those whose childhood circumstances were more complex. The paper also finds that performance in a delayed memory assessment at age 50 was associated with better recall of childhood circumstances.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2013-11-11
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/232
10.14301/llcs.v5i1.232
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2014): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 64 - 78
1757-9597
eng
http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/232/252
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/241
2014-11-12T15:10:44Z
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The link between mother and adolescent substance use: inter-generational findings from the British Cohort Study
Patrick, Megan E
Maggs, Jennifer L
Greene, Kaylin M
Morgan, Nicole R
Schulenberg, John E
parental substance use
mothers
adolescents
alcohol
drinking
marijuana/cannabis
tobacco
The objective of this study was to identify mother, family, and individual factors associated with adolescent alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use, using mother and child self-reports. Adolescents aged 12-15 (N=276) and their mothers, who were participants in the British Cohort Study (BCS; born 1970), were both surveyed when mothers were 34 years old. Predictors included mothers’ substance use as well as characteristics of the child (gender, age, conduct problems) and family (social class, two-parent family, parent-adolescent conflict). Outcome variables were adolescent alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use. Child characteristics were predictive, with older children more likely to engage in all behaviors. After controlling for other predictors, mothers’ current drinking frequency and problems predicted adolescent reports of ever drinking and of drinking sometimes/regularly; mothers’ marijuana use was a marginally significant predictor of adolescent marijuana use. Results suggest that mothers’ substance use is an important component of adolescent use, even after accounting for characteristics of the child and the intergenerational family context.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2013-11-21
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/241
10.14301/llcs.v5i1.241
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2014): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 56 - 63
1757-9597
eng
http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/241/253
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/248
2014-11-12T15:10:36Z
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Siblings and child development
de La Rochebrochard, Elise
Joshi, Heather
Child Development
School Readiness
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
Siblings
Resource Dilution
Millennium Cohort Study
Having many siblings, or none, may impair, or improve, a child’s development compared to being part of a two-child family. Any effect may vary for different aspects of development. This note describes, cross-sectionally, the observed association between child development at ages 3 to 7 years and the number of co-resident siblings, at three sweeps of the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Indicators of cognitive development (verbal and non-verbal), are taken from surveys at ages 3, 5 and 7 years. Behavioural problems are reported at the three surveys on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. We analyze its five sub-scales separately, and also the Total Difficulties score. For each of 26 outcomes, we estimate the risk of falling into the most problematic 10% of the child population, depending on the number of siblings at each survey, controlling for the child’s gender and the level of the mother’s education. In this descriptive exercise, maternal education stands in for a host of possible social covariates; and allows for the least educated mothers having larger families. Children with two or more siblings generally showed increased odds of adverse outcomes, especially in cognition at age 3. This is in line with the hypothesis of resource dilution, but only-children tend, for some outcomes, to score worse than those in two-child families. The odds ratios (ORs) for boys were, except one, unfavourable, of similar magnitude to estimates for larger families. The disadvantages associated with low maternal education were generally greater. These explorations lay the ground for longitudinal modelling of causal pathways.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2013-08-30
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/248
10.14301/llcs.v4i3.248
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 4 No. 3 (2013): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 276-287
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eng
http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/248/245
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/277
2015-03-20T06:38:01Z
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Fantasy, unrealistic and uncertain aspirations and children’s emotional and behavioural adjustment in primary school
Moulton, Vanessa
Flouri, Eirini
Joshi, Heather
Sullivan, Alice
Aspirations
emotional and behavioural problems
externalising
internalising
MCS
We examined the aspirations expressed by 7-year-olds in association with their emotional and behavioural problems, based on data from 12,014 children in the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). We classified their written responses to the question ‘when you grow up, what would you like to be’ as aspirations for rare (34.7%) or non-rare (56.8%) occupations, fantasy aspirations (1.1%), aspirations for non-work related future states (2.3%), and uncertain aspirations (5.1%). Most children had occupational aspirations, suggesting that at age 7, children already envisage future careers. Though few had fantasy occupations, which are more common in younger children, many gave unrealistic answers which are more developmentally typical for 7-year-olds. Children with fantasy aspirations at age 7 were more hyperactive, and had more conduct and peer problems. Having non-work-related and uncertain aspirations at this age was not associated with adverse outcomes. Compared to children who aspired to rare occupations, those who aspired to non-rare occupations had more emotional and peer problems. Children with ambitions for rare occupations may have higher self-efficacy and believe they can influence their choices. These findings were robust to adjustment for earlier emotional and behavioural problems, verbal cognitive ability, ethnicity, family structure, social class and poverty, and maternal education and depressed mood.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2014-12-10
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/277
10.14301/llcs.v6i1.277
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 107 - 119
1757-9597
eng
http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/277/319
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oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/434
2019-05-31T11:08:11Z
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An integrated and collaborative approach to developing and scripting questionnaires for longitudinal cohort studies and surveys: experience in Life Study
Walton, Suzanne
Alexandrakis, Stelios
Gilby, Nicholas
Firman, Nicola
Williams, Gareth
Peskett, Duncan
Elias, Peter
Dezateux, Carol
questionnaire design
questionnaire programming
data processing
data collection
data documentation
metadata
longitudinal studies
cohort studies
surveys and questionnaires
Structured Query Language (SQL) database
Efficient development of questionnaires for longitudinal surveys and cohort studies as computer-assisted survey instruments usually entails close collaboration between scientific and fieldwork teams. We describe a system based on the use of a Structured Query Language (SQL) database established to maximise efficiency, minimise error and ensure clear communication of requirements across teams for ‘Life Study’, a UK-wide cohort study designed to recruit mothers, their babies, partners and non-resident fathers, with whom further contacts were planned at the outset. The use of the SQL database enabled construction and integration of different elements of the study, initially through creating a master copy of each variable. This supported swift and accurate creation of a range of outputs enabling, for example, review and approval of successive drafts and final specifications of questionnaires, efficient implementation of changes to variables, re-use of metadata specified at the outset, reduction of ambiguities for survey programmers, and efficient and accurate automation of questionnaire scripting. The SQL database was also used to generate the syntax to transform pilot data into formats specified for data archiving and for associated publication quality questionnaires. This innovative use of an SQL database for questionnaire development and scripting, and subsequent data processing and documentation, highlights the value of this approach in improving the quality and efficiency of longitudinal surveys.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2017-10-26
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/434
10.14301/llcs.v8i4.434
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 8 No. 4 (2017): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 401-416
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eng
http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/434/517
Copyright (c) 2017 Suzanne Walton
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/439
2017-07-25T18:43:50Z
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Integrating area-based and national samples in birth cohort studies: the case of Life Study
Goldstein, Harvey
Sera, Francesco
Elias, Peter
Dezateux, Carol
Birth cohort study
longitudinal
Study design
weighting
pregnancy study
attrition
non-response
The most recent UK birth cohort study, known as ‘Life Study’ was a longitudinal study planned to involve some 80,000 babies and comprised two components. The largest, the ‘Pregnancy Component’ was to consist of around 60,000 pregnant women who were to be recruited when attending for a routine antenatal ultrasound at selected maternity units in England. The other component, the ‘Birth Component’ was to be a random sample of intended size 20,000 live births across the UK. Recruitment to the cohort was to take place over a period of four years starting in 2015. Innovative sampling procedures had been designed and tested and a synthetic dataset produced with similar characteristics to the anticipated survey data was produced to study the performance of the sampling procedures and explore analysis strategies.This research note describes the proposed sample design, and discusses how the two components were to be integrated to provide a consistent dataset for users. Approaches to the provision of suitable sampling weights and modelling approaches are also presented. Lessons are drawn for designs of future cohort studies.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2017-07-25
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/439
10.14301/llcs.v8i3.439
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 8 No. 3 (2017): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 281-289
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/439/506
Copyright (c) 2017 Harvey Goldstein, Francesco Sera, Peter Elias, Carol Dezateus
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/463
2018-04-26T19:41:04Z
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Does the association between teen births or abortions and educational attainment vary by socioeconomic background in Finland?
Väisänen, Heini
teenage pregnancy
induced abortion
Finland
register data
socioeconomic position
Teen mothers often have a lower socioeconomic position as adults than other women due to selection, opportunity costs of childbearing, or both. Few studies examine whether that is the case after an induced abortion as well. Also, few studies explore whether the strength of the association between teen pregnancy and adulthood socioeconomic position differs by family background. This study uses Finnish register data of 53,252 women born between 1975 and 1979 to examine with logistic regression whether the likelihood of having tertiary education depends differently on teen birth and abortion experiences by parental socioeconomic position. I also control for and report whether having a partner providing childcare helps mitigate the negative association between teen motherhood and education. The results show teen mothers had lower odds than those who aborted to have tertiary education, and both groups were behind those with no teen pregnancy. These groups’ education did not vary statistically significantly by family background, although the gap in the probability of having tertiary education between teen mothers and those with no teen pregnancy among the lowest socioeconomic backgrounds was 43%-points, and only 27%-points among the highest. Teen mothers with and without a partner had similar probabilities of having tertiary education (8– 11%). Those who had an abortion and subsequently separated from their partner, however, had similar probability of having tertiary education as teen mothers (13%), although others who had an abortion had a much higher probability (20%). Selection shapes these relationships. Survey and register data should be combined to study these associations using methods of causal inference.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2018-04-25
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/463
10.14301/llcs.v9i2.463
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 9 No. 2 (2018): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 245-256
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eng
http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/463/572
Copyright (c) 2018 Heini Väisänen
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/470
2017-07-25T18:43:52Z
llcs:RN
Is there a wage penalty associated with a degree of indecision in career aspirations?
Sabates, Ricardo
Gutman, Leslie Morrison
Schoon, Ingrid
In this longitudinal study, we test whether varying degrees of indecision about future career choices at age 16 have long-term economic consequences in adulthood, taking into account potential gender differences. Findings from a British cohort born in 1970 indicate that young people who were completely undecided about job choices did experience a wage penalty at age 34 compared to young people who were certain about their job aspirations. This association was significant even after controlling for family socioeconomic status, parental expectations and academic ability at age 16. However, the wage penalty was mediated by educational attainment and part-time employment at age 34. Not being entirely certain about one’s future profession by age 16 seems to be part of a career decision making process which does not necessarily incur a wage penalty for most young people, especially if it involves the acquisition of education qualifications.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2017-07-25
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/470
10.14301/llcs.v8i3.470
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 8 No. 3 (2017): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 290-306
1757-9597
eng
http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/470/509
Copyright (c) 2017 Leslie Morrison Gutman, Ingrid Schoon, Ricardo Sabates
oai:edrev.asu.edu:article/486
2019-02-15T13:26:51Z
llcs:RN
Sex of older siblings and stress resilience
Montgomery, Scott
Bergh, Cecilia
Udumyan, Ruzan
Eriksson, Mats
Fall, Katja
Hiyoshi, Ayako
Siblings
Sex
Psychological functioning
Stress resilience
Adolescence
The aim was to investigate whether older siblings are associated with development of stress resilience in adolescence and if there are differences by sex of siblings. The study used a Swedish register-based cohort of men (n=664 603) born between 1970 and 1992 who undertook military conscription assessments in adolescence that included a measure of stress resilience: associations were assessed using multinomial logistic regression. Adjusted relative risk ratios (95% confidence intervals) for low stress resilience (n=136 746) compared with high (n=142 581) are 1.33 (1.30, 1.35), 1.65 (1.59, 1.71) and 2.36 (2.18, 2.54) for one, two and three or more male older siblings, compared with none. Equivalent values for female older siblings do not have overlapping confidence intervals with males and are 1.19 (1.17, 1.21), 1.46 (1.40, 1.51) and 1.87 (1.73, 2.03). When the individual male and female siblings are compared directly (one male sibling compared with one female sibling, etc.) and after adjustment, including for cognitive function, there is a statistically significant (p<0.005) greater risk for low stress resilience associated with male siblings. Older male siblings may have greater adverse implications for psychological development, perhaps due to greater demands on familial resources or inter-sibling interactions.
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2018-10-19
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/486
10.14301/llcs.v9i4.486
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Vol. 9 No. 4 (2018): Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; 447-455
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http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/486/617
Copyright (c) 2018 Scott Montgomery, Cecilia Bergh, Ruzan Udumyan, Mats Eriksson, Katja Fall, Ayako Hiyoshi