Considering Life Course Concepts

Hendricks, Jon

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“…Moreover, the findings provide insights into the way in which earlier family events are related to later outcomes, which is an important question in the life course literature (Hendricks 2012). Although the preretirement family situation seems to be of overriding importance for explaining women's retirement processes, experiences earlier in life already "set the stage" (Settersten 2003, p. 29) for retirement decision making.…”

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Women’s Retirement Intentions and Behavior: The Role of Childbearing and Marital Histories

2015

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Although from a life course perspective women's retirement timing can be expected to be related to family events earlier in life, such as childbirth and divorce, empirical insights into these relationships show that women who postponed childbearing and still have children living at home during preretirement years have the intention to retire relatively late. For retirement behavior this effect was not statistically significant. Ever divorced single women both intend to and actually retire later than continuously married women. Repartnering after a divorce seems to offset the negative divorce effect: retirement timing intentions and behavior of repartnered women did not differ from continuously married women. Also the preretirement financial, health, and work opportunity structure -factors that are often central in studies among men -did play an explanatory role. Women who have a less beneficial preretirement financial situation, a better health situation, and challenging work intend to and actually retire relatively late.

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Women’s Retirement Intentions and Behavior: The Role of Childbearing and Marital Histories

2015

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“…A life course perspective posits that a person's age is associated with socially defined milestones that shape their involvement in different roles and the perceived meaning derived from involvement in those roles. 25,26 For instance, the younger and middle-aged adult life phase is often characterized by increasing engagement in a range of highly valued vocational and social roles such as finding full-time work, getting married, or raising children. 27 Involvement in these various roles is often associated with greater time demands or pressures.…”

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“…28 In comparison, older adults at the later phase of their careers may be moving into another phase of life in which they could be preparing to withdraw from their involvement in multiple roles or reprioritize those that are most important. 25,26,[28][29][30] SCI and employment research has not typically examined changes in roles across the life course. Also, commonly accessed disability models that guide research and practice often focus on age as a personal factor related to an increased likelihood of poorer functioning and may neglect the adaptations people may make to foster participation in valued social roles.…”

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A Life Course Perspective to Spinal Cord Injury and Employment Participation in Canada

Jetha

Dumont

Noreau

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Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

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“…Therefore, it is imperative that we provide alternative resources to help people rediscover and maintain a positive outlook as they go through treatment and recovery, and their life afterwards as a survivor of cancer ). Fredrickson's (2001) broaden-and-build concept embraces aspects of social support (Scrignaro et al 2011), posttraumatic growth (Tedeschi and Calhoun 2004), life course development (Hendricks 2012), and subjective well-being (Diener 2006), bridging them together to put forth a holistic synthesis of how to find growth post-diagnosis of cancer. As will be evidenced in this paper, survivors of cancer created and built stores of positive experiences and interactions through participation in the hiking program, Celebrate the Trail to Recovery (CTR).…”

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Celebrate the Trail to Recovery: Power of the Positive Post-Diagnosis of Cancer

Harmon

2018

Int J Sociol Leis

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This paper explored how those in treatment for cancer, or in remission from it, benefitted from participation in a weekly hiking program. Fredrickson's (2001) broaden-and-build concept was used to structure and demonstrate the ability of participants to create and store positive emotions from their experiences hiking with fellow survivors of cancer. The broaden-and-build concept embraces aspects of social support, posttraumatic growth, life course development, and subjective well-being, thus suggesting its value in articulating the positive growth of those who participated in the program and this study. Through semi-structured interviews, survivors of cancer shared stories about their participation in the hiking program, and how it was beneficial to their recovery process and discovery of their Bnew normal.K eywords Cancer . Leisure . Positive psychology . NatureIt was an early winter morning and the temperature was low and the breeze was stiff. We had a small group out hiking that day, just seven of us in total, broken up in to two groups. I was up at the front of the pack with Paula (70, breast cancer, double mastectomy) and Clara (59, breast cancer), and Paula mentioned that she was celebrating her five year mark of Bno evidence of disease^(NED). Clara perked up, smiled, and said, BI'll be there in six months!^Then Paula said, BYou know, I feel like I've come a long way from that diagnosis. I was down in the dumps for a while, but now, now I know I have a lot to look forward to.^Clara and I both nodded in agreement, and we walked in silence for a while, letting the sun coat our faces and the leaves dance in front of us, seemingly a celebration of her accomplishment. -From the author's journal Int J Sociol Leis (2018) 1:215-226 https://doi

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Considering Life Course Concepts

Cited by 66 publications

References 4 publications

Women’s Retirement Intentions and Behavior: The Role of Childbearing and Marital Histories

Women’s Retirement Intentions and Behavior: The Role of Childbearing and Marital Histories

A Life Course Perspective to Spinal Cord Injury and Employment Participation in Canada

Celebrate the Trail to Recovery: Power of the Positive Post-Diagnosis of Cancer

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