Älterwerden von Frauen und Männern in Deutschland

Vogel, Claudia; Wettstein, Markus; Tesch-Römer, Clemens

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“…Future analyses could include additional period effects by using age-period-cohort models (Rutherford et al, 2010;Fosse and Winship, 2019). This would be especially relevant considering the historical context in Germany, which includes the economic changes resulting from the Wirtschaftswunder, the German division and the fall of the Berlin Wall (Leontowitsch, 2017;Vogel et al, 2019). Fourthly, the importance of complementing the socio-structural category of ageing with subjective valuations in order to operationalise the complexity of ageing is underlined by the finding that an individual's negative attitudes towards ageing in the dimension of social loss make them more likely to repartner.…”

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Gendered repartnering in later life: structural and processual dimensions of the transition into new relationships

Bischoff

2024

Ageing and Society

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Against the backdrop of demographic change and the pluralisation of living arrangements, the article focuses on repartnering after widowhood, divorce and separation in older age in Germany. While theoretically framing repartnering as a lifecourse transition, the question arises of how later-life relationships form in relation to gender- and ageing-specific as well as structural and processual dimensions. Since previous research indicates that there are gender-specific patterns when repartnering in older age which differ from repartnering in middle age, the article explicitly accounts for gendered ageing and attitudes towards ageing. Using data from the German Ageing Survey (1996–2017), longitudinal hybrid panel regressions are modelled for 3,653 respondents, 11,628 observations and 179 new relationships. I propose to understand within-effects as processual and between-effects as structural dimensions of repartnering. The results for the structural dimensions show that the likelihood of repartnering is higher for men and for individuals with more negative attitudes towards ageing. The results for the processual dimensions show how repartnering becomes less likely the older one gets and the more positive one's attitudes towards ageing become. The interaction term for gender and ageing shows that ageing has a stronger influence on the likelihood to repartner for women than for men. Additionally, the findings reveal a difference between forms of singlehood: in the short term, repartnering is less likely for divorced or separated individuals than for widowed individuals, whereas the opposite effect shows in the long term. In sensitising the lifecourse perspective with gender- and ageing-specific concepts and analytically separating processual and structural dimensions, this article demonstrates the importance of gendered ageing and of the linkage between relationship transitions. Applying hybrid panel models to lifecourse transitions in older age reveals the processual dynamic and structural embeddedness of repartnering in older age.

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Gendered repartnering in later life: structural and processual dimensions of the transition into new relationships

Bischoff

2024

Ageing and Society

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“…This study was based on data from the public release of the German Ageing Survey (DEAS), provided by the Research Data Centre of the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA) [ 36 ]. The population-based survey started in 1996 and included individuals aged 40 years and older, which is considered the “second half of life” [ 37 ]. Further waves of data collection followed in 2002, 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2017.…”

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Social Inequalities and Loneliness as Predictors of Ageing Well: A Trend Analysis Using Mixed Models

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Knesebeck

Lüdecke

2020

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Background: This study examines if education, income, and loneliness are associated with physical functioning and optimism in an ageing population in Germany. Furthermore, time trends of physical functioning and optimism as well as of associations with social inequality and loneliness are analyzed. Methods: The German Ageing Survey (DEAS), a longitudinal population-based survey of individuals aged 40 years and older, was used (four waves between 2008 and 2017, total sample size N = 23,572). Physical functioning and optimism were introduced as indicators of ageing well. Educational level, net equivalent income, and loneliness were used as predictors in linear mixed models for longitudinal data. Results: Time trends show that physical functioning decreases over time, while optimism slightly increases. Education and income are positively associated with physical functioning, while higher loneliness correlates with lower physical functioning. Higher optimism was associated with higher income and particularly with lower loneliness. Income and notable educational inequalities in physical functioning increase over time. Time trends of the associations with optimism show decreasing income inequalities and increasing disparities in loneliness. Conclusions: Increasing educational inequalities in physical functioning and a strong association of loneliness with optimism provide information for further interventions. Targeted health promotion among the aged and addressing maladaptive social cognition are options to tackle these issues. Key areas for action on healthy ageing include, for instance, the alignment of health systems to the needs of older populations or the creation of age-friendly environments.

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Älterwerden von Frauen und Männern in Deutschland

Cited by 2 publications

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Gendered repartnering in later life: structural and processual dimensions of the transition into new relationships

Gendered repartnering in later life: structural and processual dimensions of the transition into new relationships

Social Inequalities and Loneliness as Predictors of Ageing Well: A Trend Analysis Using Mixed Models

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