Economic strain and self-rated health among lone and couple mothers in Sweden during the 1990s compared to the 1980s

Fritzell, Sara; Burström, Bo

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2006.01.004

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“…In three Swedish studies, the temporal shift in health outcomes was put under scrutiny (Burstrom et al 1999;Fritzell and Burstrom 2006;Fritzell et al 2007). The studies showed the emergence of lone parents as a vulnerable social group during the nineties and the first decade of the new century.…”

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Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Bernardi

Mortelmans

Larenza

2017

Life Course Research and Social Policies

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The socio-demographic profile of lone parents has changed in the last decades. Being mostly widowed men and women or young single mothers until the 1970s, lone parents are nowadays mostly divorced and separated parents, even though they are still by and large mothers rather than fathers. As a consequence, the experience of lone parenthood has also dramatically changed. Less objects of pity or stigmatized with shame, lone parents and their children are more than ever bound by legal arrangements to the other parent and are caught in more dynamic family trajectories.There are at least two remarkable changes that certainly need to be addressed by research on lone parenthood: its boundaries and its diversity. Both aspects are connected and have potential implications for lone parents and their children. First, the diversity and complexity of legal and residential arrangements of parents and children make it difficult to establish the borders between a full-time and a part-time one-parent household. When child custody or parental authority are shared, can we still talk about lone parents? Children circulate more and more between two or more parental households after separation, and more than one parent may be financially and legally responsible for them. One direct consequence of such changes in the

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Section: Health Trajectoriesmentioning

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Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Bernardi

Mortelmans

Larenza

2017

Life Course Research and Social Policies

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“…Brown et al, 2009), but no study has empirically tested the association between both childhood and adulthood economic stress and poor psychological health in relation to the accumulation, critical period and social mobility hypotheses. The item concerning economic stress in adulthood has been analyzed in relation to health and health related behaviours in earlier studies based on earlier public health surveys in Sweden (Fritzell and Burström, 2006). A previous study based on the 2008 Skåne survey has investigated the associations between economic stress in childhood, economic stress in adulthood and self-rated global health (Lindström, Hansen and Rosvall, 2012).…”

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“…Some prior studies have analyzed subjective economic hardships utilizing the same item or similar items and shown significant associations with differing health outcomes (Fritzell and Burström, 2006). Information concerning economic stress in childhood is scarce, so the presence of this variable in the data is a clear strength.…”

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Economic stress in childhood and adulthood, and poor psychological health: Three life course hypotheses

Lindström

Fridh

2014

Psychiatry Research

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Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Lindström, M., Fridh, M., & Rosvall, M. (2014). Economic stress in childhood and adulthood, and poor psychological health: Three life course hypotheses. Psychiatry Research, 215(2), 386-393. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Logistic regression models were used to investigate the associations adjusting for age, country of birth, socioeconomic status, emotional support, instrumental support and trust, and stratifying by sex. The accumulation hypothesis was confirmed because combined childhood and adulthood exposures to economic stress were associated with poor psychological health in a graded manner. The social mobility hypothesis was also confirmed. The critical period hypothesis was not confirmed because both childhood and adulthood economic stress remained significantly associated with poor psychological health in adulthood. Economic stress in childhood is associated with mental health in adulthood.

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“…The dual responsibility of caring for and providing for children causes work-family conflicts for many single mothers as well as financial stress (Whitehead et al, 2000;Ugreninov, 2005). Some research has observed single mothers having higher levels of mental problems than non-single mothers (Whitehead et al, 2000;Fritzell & Burstrom, 2006). A study of single and non-single working mothers in Denmark, Sweden and Norway (Bull & Mittelmark, 2009) shows that financial stress was the most significant predictor of life satisfaction in both groups of working mothers, but also that the level of financial stress is significantly higher for single mothers.…”

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The understanding of Norwegian women’s sickness absence: towards a holistic approach?

Solheim¹

2011

NORD J SOC RES

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Economic strain and self-rated health among lone and couple mothers in Sweden during the 1990s compared to the 1980s

Cited by 51 publications

References 21 publications

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Economic stress in childhood and adulthood, and poor psychological health: Three life course hypotheses

The understanding of Norwegian women’s sickness absence: towards a holistic approach?

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