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Navigating threads of a young adult life-course: Tangled complexity in the education and work pathways of African university graduates 青年人生轨迹的导航：非洲大学毕业生教育和工作路径的错综复杂

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100689

Adam Cooper , Andrea Juan , Nokhetho Mhlanga

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Religious affiliation and the division of housework over the life course 宗教信仰和一生中家务的分工

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100676

Luoman Bao, Zhe (Meredith) Zhang, Roseann Giarrusso

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Silver sanctions: Legal financial obligations in an aging population 银发制裁：人口老龄化的法律财务义务

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100674

Kate K. O’Neill, Alexes Harris

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Reproductive waithood: An exploratory cohort study of changes in the transition to motherhood in Chile

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100675

Martina Yopo Díaz , Ignacio Cabib

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Delayed transitions to adulthood and assisted reproduction: A study of educational differences in Spain 延迟过渡到成年和辅助生殖：西班牙教育差异的研究

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100672

Cristina Suero , Marie-Caroline Compans , Eva Beaujouan

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Digital nomadism from a life course perspective 从生命历程的角度看数字游牧

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100673

Juul H.D. Henkens

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Gendered life-course trajectories of childcare and informal care in the Netherlands 荷兰儿童保育和非正式照料的性别化生命历程轨迹

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100671

Ayşegül Güneyli, Katia Begall, Ellen Verbakel

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Life course socioeconomic position and cognitive aging in later life: A scoping review 生命历程、社会经济地位与晚年认知衰老：一个范围综述

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100670

Mengling Cheng , Lore Van Herreweghe , Aswathikutty Gireesh , Stefan Sieber , Kenneth F. Ferraro , Stéphane Cullati

{"title":"Life course socioeconomic position and cognitive aging in later life: A scoping review","authors":"Mengling Cheng , Lore Van Herreweghe , Aswathikutty Gireesh , Stefan Sieber , Kenneth F. Ferraro , Stéphane Cullati","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100670","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100670","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and Objectives</h3><div>Low socioeconomic position (SEP) throughout the life course is related to poorer cognitive health in later life, but debate ensues on the life course models for this association. To advance inquiry on the topic, we conducted a scoping review.</div></div><div><h3>Research Design and Methods</h3><div>We examined the association between life course SEP and cognitive function in later life in observational studies—considering cognition both as a cross-sectional level and as a longitudinal trajectory across cognitive domains—and assessed whether the empirical evidence supported life course models. We focused on studies in the general population with cognition measured in the second half of life (45 +). Forty-two studies (21 datasets) were included representing 595,276 participants (201,375 across unique datasets) from 46 countries.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>For cognitive level, studies consistently found associations between SEP at various stages of the life course, both in overall cognition and across specific cognitive domains. These associations were generally robust to confounding and mediating factors. For cognitive trajectory, studies showed inconclusive associations with SEP across life course and across cognitive domains. Results supported the sensitive period, pathway, and accumulation models, but not the critical period model. Results supported that education acts as a pathway (and potential mediator) in the association between early-life SEP and later-life cognition.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion and Implications</h3><div>SEP throughout the life course has a robust association with later-life cognitive level, but not decline. Early-life cognitive enrichment for young people raised in socioeconomically disadvantaged households may reduce the SEP gap in cognitive functioning during later life.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 100670"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143620857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Longitudinal associations between personal identity and parenthood among finnish young adults 芬兰年轻人个人认同与为人父母的纵向关联

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100662

Rasmus Mannerström , Florencia M. Sortheix , Lauri Hietajärvi , Katariina Salmela-Aro

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Divorce in same-sex and opposite-sex couples: The roles of intermarriage, religious affiliation, and income 同性和异性夫妻的离婚：异族婚姻、宗教信仰和收入的作用

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100669

Elina Einiö , Maria Ponkilainen

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