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{"title":"Impressionable years: How life course transitions shape gender ideologies across adolescence and young adulthood","authors":"Janna Wilhelm","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100705","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100705","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how life course transitions unique to adolescence and young adulthood affect gender ideologies of men and women. After childhood, young people are exposed to new contexts that shape their beliefs in different ways than parents. By integrating a life course perspective with the conceptualisation of gender as a social structure and interest- and exposure-based explanations, this study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of change mechanisms. It extends the literature by examining the role of age-specific transitions: into vocational training, university, employment, romantic relationships, and cohabitation. Using representative data from the German Family Panel <em>pairfam</em>, I conducted fixed-effects regression analyses with gender interaction terms (n = 2888 individuals; ages 15–27). To account for the multidimensionality of gender ideologies, I used separate attitude items. Results show that attending university is associated with increased support for gender equality in the public and private sphere, particularly for young men. Transitions into vocational training are related to an increase in public sphere egalitarianism, while transitions into employment mostly did not have an additional effect. When they enter heterosexual relationships, results are gender-specific: Women become more traditional regarding maternal employment, while men increase their support for equal housework sharing and both women’s and men’s caretaking roles. With cohabitation, women decrease their support for equal housework sharing. Overall, the findings suggest that young people’s gender ideologies can be subject to persistent change beyond early formative years and that life course transitions may be crucial in shaping them.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 100705"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145093427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Timing and duration of work-family experiences and mental health in young adulthood: Applying feature selection","authors":"Vendula Machů ,&nbsp;Iris Arends ,&nbsp;Karin Veldman ,&nbsp;Ute Bültmann","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100706","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100706","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Background&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;Little is known about whether and how the timing and duration of work-family experiences are associated with subsequent mental health outcomes in the current generation of young adults. Such information may inform the development of timely interventions to promote better mental health. In this study, we use two complementary approaches to examine the complex relationship between work, family and mental health in young Dutch adults born around 1990. First, we examine the association between work-family trajectories and mental health. Second, we examine which timing and duration features of work-family trajectories are related to subsequent mental health.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Methods&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sequences of monthly work-family states from ages 18 to 28 years were constructed in a sample of Dutch young adults participating in the TRAILS cohort study (N = 992). Mental health was operationalised as experiencing internalising or externalising problems at age 29. We created a typology of work-family trajectories by clustering individual sequences and used regression analysis to examine the association between work-family trajectories and mental health. Next, we used the Boruta feature selection algorithm to identify timing and duration features of work-family trajectories related to mental health at age 29 and conducted a regression analysis to examine the associations between the identified features and mental health. All regression analyses were controlled for mental health problems between ages 11 and 16.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Results&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;Women in the work-family trajectories &lt;em&gt;long education&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;inactive&lt;/em&gt; were most likely to experience internalising problems at age 29. Women in the work-family trajectory &lt;em&gt;inactive&lt;/em&gt; were also most likely to experience externalising problems. In line, the feature selection analysis showed that both being inactive and being in education in the first stage of young adulthood, being a parent and in work in the last stage of young adulthood and the total duration of inactivity were associated with internalising problems. Being inactive in the first and the last stages of young adulthood and being inactive and a parent in the third stage of young adulthood were associated with externalising problems. Men in the work-family trajectory &lt;em&gt;inactive&lt;/em&gt; were most likely to experience both internalising and externalising problems. Additionally, men in the work-family trajectory &lt;em&gt;continuous education and work&lt;/em&gt; were most likely to report externalising problems. The feature selection analysis showed that being in education in the last stage of young adulthood was associated with internalising problems. Similar to women, inactivity in the first stage of young adulthood was associated with internalising and externalising problems at age 29.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;Work-family trajectories in young adulthood are associated with mental health problems at age 2","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 100706"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145267336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trends in intergenerational coresidence in Taiwan: Age, period, and cohort analysis, 2000–2020","authors":"Yung-Han Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100702","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100702","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of ongoing social and demographic changes, eldercare and living arrangements have become increasingly challenging in many aging societies, including Taiwan. Historically, high levels of coresidence between parents and adult children were largely upheld by filial piety in Taiwan. However, the declining influence of filial traditions has been accompanied by shifts in intergenerational coresidence (IC) patterns. Although tracing how coresidence has evolved is key to understanding family dynamics in East Asian contexts, studies have produced mixed results, largely due to the age-period-cohort (APC) identification problem. To address this gap, this study draws on longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Family Dynamics Survey (2000–2020) and applies an adapted hierarchical APC (HAPC) model to disentangle patterns of parents' coresidence with children across APC trends within a multilevel framework. The analysis reveals that the age effect follows a U-shaped pattern with notable gender differences—women experience a milder decline and an earlier resurgence in IC, along with cohort variations. Among the pre-boomer cohort (1935–1945), coresidence tends to decline, specifically among women, without a clear U-shape, whereas the boomer cohort (1946–1963) sees a rise in IC around age 60. These findings elucidate the complex interplay between time-varying factors and IC as it unfolds across individual life courses within the broader family life cycle. While filial traditions remain influential, deviations from traditional coresidence patterns suggest changes in intergenerational reciprocity and highlight the growing importance of children’s circumstances on IC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 100702"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144926674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The interplay of poverty risk–employment trajectories in couples around the transition to parenthood in Germany","authors":"Christina Siegert","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100707","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100707","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The transition to parenthood is a critical period that exacerbates gendered economic inequality, with mothers more likely than their partners to experience employment disruptions and income losses. This study examines individual poverty risk among partnered individuals (N = 1237) in Germany from a life course perspective, analyzing how gendered career patterns around first births between 1992 and 2013 intersect with changes in individual poverty risk, i.e. under the assumption of no income pooling. Applying multichannel sequence analysis (MCSA) to data from the Socio-Economic Panel, the findings reveal substantial heterogeneity in how poverty risk and employment trajectories unfold after childbirth, both by gender and among women. Men’s employment and financial stability remain largely unchanged after parenthood, whereas women’s economic trajectories vary widely. While most women are financially stable before childbirth, their post-birth pathways diverge. Some return to work quickly with minimal poverty risk, while others take extended parental leave and face prolonged risks. A smaller group is persistently vulnerable even before childbirth, with consistently weak labor market attachment. Longer periods of vulnerability may reinforce power imbalances between partners and limit women’s autonomy. Over historical time, the share of women in financially stable trajectories has increased, likely reflecting policy changes that support earlier labor market reintegration. However, a subset of women remains at high risk, particularly those with lower pre-birth earnings. The findings highlight the necessity of long observation periods, as poverty risks evolve beyond the initial years of parenthood and demonstrate the utility of MCSA in describing such dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 100707"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"More than intentions: Importance of motherhood predicts first but not subsequent births","authors":"Arthur L. Greil ,&nbsp;Karina M. Shreffler ,&nbsp;Stacy M. Tiemeyer ,&nbsp;Julia McQuillan","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100708","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100708","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Even though there is a strong association between fertility intentions and fertility outcomes, fertility intentions do not consistently predict fertility outcomes, leading to questions about the utility of the concept. Our goal is to assess whether a measure of importance of motherhood could replace or add to fertility intentions, and whether there is a difference between predicting first or subsequent births. Using the two-wave National Survey of Fertility Barriers (women initially ages 25–45, <em>n</em> = 1381), this study applies sequential logistic regression analysis with missing data imputation to explore associations of prospective fertility intentions and importance of motherhood with subsequent births among women. Results indicate that both fertility intentions and importance of motherhood have independent associations with subsequent births among nulliparous women, but importance of motherhood does not predict having a birth among women who already have at least one child. This suggests that importance of motherhood contributes beyond fertility intentions to understanding whether nulliparous women have a child or remain childless, but not to understanding achieved fertility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 100708"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145514595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Housing tenure trajectories and health in later life across Europe","authors":"Agostino Cristofalo ,&nbsp;Eleonora Trappolini","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100711","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100711","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Previous research has shown that standard patterns of work and family trajectories over the life course are associated with better health in later life. In this study, we investigate whether this extends to housing tenure trajectories.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Using 2017 SHARELIFE retrospective data, we explore how housing tenure trajectories (ages 16–65) are associated with multiple health outcomes among 65–75 years-old adults residing in eleven European countries. We use sequence and cluster analysis to identify main types of housing tenure trajectories and logistic regression models to explore their association with outcomes of self-rated health, chronic morbidity, and activity limitations (GALI).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>We identified six clusters of housing tenure trajectories: ‘early-homeowners’ (62.6 %), ‘late-homeowners’ (7.1 %), ‘never-leavers’ (11.6 %), ‘private tenants’ (9.3 %), ‘social tenants’ (6.4 %), and ‘rent-free and others’ (3.1 %). Non-standard housing tenure trajectories patterns – particularly those of ‘social tenants’, ‘private tenants’, and ‘never-leavers’ – were associated with poorer later-life health compared to the standard pattern of ‘early-homeowners’, consistently across outcomes and more evidently among women. We found weaker evidence for variation of the association across country groups, with some exceptions.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Housing tenure trajectories across the life course are associated with later-life health outcomes. In particular, non-standard housing tenure trajectories are associated with a health disadvantage in later life compared to the standard pattern of early-homeowners, characterised by an early transition and a long-term stay in homeownership.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 100711"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145623329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Daily health and well-being among caregivers with multiple adverse childhood experiences: The role of family support and strain","authors":"Jooyoung Kong ,&nbsp;Yin Liu ,&nbsp;David M. Almeida ,&nbsp;Stephanie Robert","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100704","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100704","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objective</h3><div>Caregiving for aging parents is a prevalent experience for middle- and older adults in the US. Utilizing a life course perspective to family caregiving, this study examined the associations between providing care to parents and four daily well-being outcomes while also testing the moderating roles of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and current family support or strain.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>Using data from the National Study of Daily Experiences 3, a daily diary project of the Midlife in the United States study (MIDUS), we analyzed a sample of 434 caregivers and their 1123 daily diary records. A multilevel modeling approach was used to examine intra-individual patterns.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>For caregivers who reported three or more ACEs, daily negative affect was higher on days they provided care compared to days they did not. For these caregivers, positive family support buffered the associations between daily caregiving to parents and higher negative affect, lower positive affect, and poorer sleep quality. Family strain exacerbated the effects of daily caregiving to parents on higher negative affect, lower positive affect, more physical symptoms, and poorer sleep quality.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>ACEs may play a crucial role in contextualizing caregivers’ daily health outcomes. The findings of the current study enhance our understanding of adult-child caregivers who experienced multiple ACEs and highlight their need for trauma-informed support.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 100704"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145061203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linking family ties and young adults’ college attainment: Differences between immigrant and non-immigrant children","authors":"Gabrielle Juteau ,&nbsp;Jenjira Yahirun","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100709","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100709","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how the association between family affective ties during adolescence and college completion differs for immigrant versus non-immigrant adult children. The children of immigrants inhabit family contexts unique to their immigrant status, ultimately shaping their socioeconomic integration into the United States. Family affective ties to parents may thus carry a different meaning for the children of immigrants by decelerating their integration or encouraging their entry into mainstream social institutions, including college completion. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this study examines young adults’ likelihood of completing college by parent-child affective ties using discrete-time event history models. Findings suggest that the children of immigrants diverge from the children of native-born parents once family affective ties are weak or negative, with immigrant youth demonstrating higher probability of completing college as emotional closeness decreases. Similarly, parental conflict also increased the likelihood of college completion for the children of immigrants compared to the children of native-born parents. In fact, the direction of the association between family affective ties and college completion was different across immigrant status. For the children of native-born parents, stronger parent-child relationships boosted the probability of acquiring a college degree, but the opposite was found for the children of immigrants. These results underscore the divergent patterns of affectual solidarity in tracing children of immigrants’ education trajectory and integration into the host country.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 100709"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145623330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heterogeneity or disadvantage? Partnership, childbearing, and employment trajectories of the descendants of immigrants in the United Kingdom","authors":"Júlia Mikolai,&nbsp;Hill Kulu","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100703","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100703","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate how partnership, fertility, and employment changes interact in the lives of immigrants’ descendants in the UK. Although these domains are intertwined in individuals’ lives, most studies on migrants and minorities have examined them separately. We apply multi-channel sequence analysis to data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study to establish the main types of joint partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories among the native population and the descendants of immigrants (i.e., 1.5 and second generation). We analyse women and men separately. We find first that the descendants of European/Western immigrants exhibit family and employment trajectories similar to those of the native British population. Second, the descendants of Caribbean immigrants have diverse partnership and fertility patterns, but their employment outcomes are similar or even better compared to those of native women and men. Third, among women of South Asian descent, conservative partnership and family formation patterns are coupled with low labour market attachment. It is not the heterogeneity in partnership and family formation patterns which poses a challenge, rather that these patterns co-exist with low labour market participation. This is likely to have serious long-term implications for the wellbeing of second-generation women.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 100703"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating threads of a young adult life-course: Tangled complexity in the education and work pathways of African university graduates","authors":"Adam Cooper ,&nbsp;Andrea Juan ,&nbsp;Nokhetho Mhlanga","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100689","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100689","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While educational attainment is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, formal employment remains elusive. With this context in mind, this study delves into the young adult pathways undertaken by African graduate scholarship recipients post-university. Data from a longitudinal tracer survey was combined with qualitative interviews with graduates from six countries. Survey findings showed complexity with activities like employment, studying and entrepreneurship overlapping over time, with many combining working and/or studying and/or entrepreneurial activity. Qualitative analysis underlined this complexity, with education and work comprehensively entangled. The meaning of ‘employment’ covered various working world practices, often in education, which we call ‘finding a haven in education’ and profiting from various income streams while studying, which we call ‘multiple income streams and educational endeavours’. The interaction between education and work therefore problematises the concept of ‘transitions’, which assumes life-courses move from education into the world of work. We deploy the concepts ‘threads’ and ‘social navigation’ to illustrate this interaction, arguing that African graduates navigate their paths towards adulthood by weaving various thread-like opportunities into a temporarily stable livelihood knot or unravelling threads to create clear segments for income generation. They improvised an unconventional, middle-class African hustle, rather than following linear routes from education to work.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 100689"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144169004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}