Age, Aging, and Mental Health

Ferraro, Kenneth F.; Wilkinson, Lindsay R.

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“…Life course scholars have long suggested that negative events in childhood may be associated with poor health throughout the life course (Elder 1998; Ferraro and Wilkinson 2013; Pearlin 2010). Stress process literature has likewise suggested that current stress may be fundamentally linked to experiences with past stressors (Aneshensel 2015).…”

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The Long-Term Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children’s Distress Trajectories in Adulthood

Kamis

2020

Society and Mental Health

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Using six waves of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2007-2017) and the Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study (2014) (N = 3,240), this paper estimates how childhood experiences with parental mental health problems shape trajectories of children’s distress in adulthood. Findings indicate that those who experience poor parental mental health have consistently greater distress than their non-exposed counterparts throughout adulthood. More severe and longer exposures to parental mental health problems correspond to even greater distress in adulthood. The gender of the parent afflicted does not predict differences in adult mental health, but those individuals exposed to both maternal and paternal poor mental health have the greatest distress in adulthood. Together, results suggest that parental mental health during children’s formative years is a significant predictor of life course distress and that heterogeneity in this experience corresponds to unique mental health trajectories.

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The Long-Term Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children’s Distress Trajectories in Adulthood

Kamis

2020

Society and Mental Health

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“…25 A test for non-linearity was conducted by adding age squared to the model, with non-significant results for this narrow span of the life course.…”

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Urban neighbourhood unemployment history and depressive symptoms over time among late middle age and older adults

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J Epidemiol Community Health

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Background Little is known about how a neighbourhood’s unemployment history may set the stage for depressive symptomatology. This study examines the effects of urban neighbourhood unemployment history on current depressive symptoms and subsequent symptom trajectories among residentially stable late middle age and older adults. Contingent effects between neighbourhood unemployment and individual-level employment status (ie, cross-level interactions) are also assessed. Methods Individual-level survey data are from four waves (2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006) of the original cohort of the nationally representative US Health and Retirement Study. Neighbourhoods are operationalised with US Census tracts for which historical average proportion unemployed between 1990 and 2000 and change in proportion unemployed between 1990 and 2000 are used to characterise the neighbourhood’s unemployment history. Hierarchical linear regressions estimate three-level (time, individual and neighbourhood) growth models. Results Symptoms in 2000 are highest among those residing in neighbourhoods characterised by high historical average unemployment beginning in 1990 and increasing unemployment between 1990 and 2000, net of a wide range of socio-demographic controls including individual-level employment status. These neighbourhood unemployment effects are not contingent upon individual-level employment status in 2000. 6-year trajectories of depressive symptoms decrease over time on average but are not significantly influenced by the neighbourhood’s unemployment history. Conclusions Given the current US recession, future studies that do not consider historical employment conditions may underestimate the mental health impact of urban neighbourhood context. The findings suggest that exposure to neighbourhood unemployment earlier in life may be consequential to mental health later in life.

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“…It is an open question whether the relative advantage or disadvantage related to family situation remains stable, increases, or declines as people get older. Inequality literature proposed two alternative hypotheses: cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis, which postulates that inequalities intensify with age, and age-as-leveler hypothesis, according to which inequalities among groups reduce with age (Ferraro and Wilkinson 2013). Below, I discuss them in more detail.…”

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“…Theoretically, two mechanisms may shape the shifts associated with ageing (Ferraro and Wilkinson 2013). According to cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis, mid-life differences widen with age due to longer accumulation of positive (or negative) influences of one's resources and living environment (Dannefer 2003).…”

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

Mikucka

2020

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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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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Age, Aging, and Mental Health

Cited by 13 publications

References 116 publications

The Long-Term Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children’s Distress Trajectories in Adulthood

The Long-Term Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children’s Distress Trajectories in Adulthood

Urban neighbourhood unemployment history and depressive symptoms over time among late middle age and older adults

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

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