Old-Age Trajectories of Life Satisfaction. Do Singlehood and Childlessness Hurt More When People Get Older?

Q3 Social Sciences

Swiss Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI:10.2478/sjs-2020-0020

M. Mikucka

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Abstract This paper analyses trajectories of life satisfaction among elderly people in various family situations and tests whether the disadvantage related to being single or childless increases (as predicted by cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis) or reduces (consistently with age-as-leveler hypothesis) when people get older. The results show that the disadvantage of never married mothers grows with age, whereas the disadvantage of divorced people reduces with age. The study suggests that, in general, the increasing probability of ageing without close kin does not put at risk life satisfaction of elderly people.

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生活满意度的老年轨迹。当人们变老时，单身和无子女的伤害会更大吗?

摘要本文分析了不同家庭情况下老年人的生活满意度轨迹，并检验了随着年龄的增长，与单身或无子女相关的劣势是增加(正如累积(非)优势假设所预测的那样)还是减少(与年龄平衡假设一致)。结果表明，未婚母亲的劣势随着年龄的增长而增加，而离婚母亲的劣势随着年龄的增长而减少。研究表明，总体而言，无近亲的老年概率增加并不会影响老年人的生活满意度。

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Swiss Journal of Sociology Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)

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1.50

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50 weeks

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