Do welfare regimes moderate cumulative dis/advantages over the life course? Cross-national evidence from longitudinal SHARE data

Article Article scientifique Article Do welfare regimes moderate cumulative dis/advantages over the life course? Cross-national evidence from longitudinal SHARE data eng 2020 author Sieber Stefan 823285 author Cheval Boris 0000-0002-6236-4673 812669 author Orsholits Dan 0000-0003-4131-4148 727845 author Van der Linden Bernadette author Guessous Idris 760565 author Gabriel Rainer 599962 author Kliegel Matthias 761733 author Von Arx Martina 701126 author Kelly-Irving Michelle author Aartsen Marja J author Boisgontier Matthieu P author Courvoisier Delphine 0000-0002-1956-2607 94475 author Burton-Jeangros Claudine 0000-0003-2258-9728 29914 author Cullati Stéphane 0000-0002-3881-446X 524286 10.1093/geronb/gbaa036 1079-5014 https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/advance-article/doi/10.1093/geronb/gbaa036/5811132 Objectives: This study aimed to examine the cumulative disadvantage of different forms of childhood misfortune and adult-life socioeconomic conditions with regard to trajectories and levels of self-rated health in old age and whether these associations differed between welfare regimes (Scandinavian, Bismarckian, Southern European, and Eastern European. Method: The study included 24,004 respondents aged 50 to 96 from the longitudinal SHARE survey. Childhood misfortune included childhood socioeconomic conditions, adverse childhood experiences, and adverse childhood health experiences. Adult-life socioeconomic conditions consisted of education, main occupational position, and financial strain. We analyzed associations with poor self-rated health using confounder-adjusted mixed-effects logistic regression models for the complete sample and stratified by welfare regime. Results: Disadvantaged respondents in terms of childhood misfortune and adult-life socioeconomic conditions had a higher risk of poor self-rated health at age 50. However, differences narrowed with aging between adverse-childhood-health-experiences categories (driven by Southern and Eastern European welfare regimes), categories of education (driven by Bismarckian welfare regime), and main occupational position (driven by Scandinavian welfare regime). Discussion: Our research did not find evidence of cumulative disadvantage with aging in the studied life-course characteristics and age range. Instead, trajectories showed narrowing differences with differing patterns across welfare regimes. Cumulative advantage/disadvantage Early origins of health Life course analysis Self-rated health Dewey 128.37 Dewey 150 Dewey 304.6/305.3/306 Dewey 618.97 14 Centre interfacultaire de gérontologie et d'études des vulnérabilités 0D6 15 Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives 0D8 65 Département de réadaptation et gériatrie 22B 108 Section de psychologie 71 195 Institut de démographie et de socioéconomie TH false 1282 Centre LIVES 633 Cognitive Aging Lab (CAL) Journals of Gerontology. B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 77dc6960-c715-41b4-94fe-d6b95e38bf6f Article (Published version) Restricted Sieber_al_2020_DoWelfareRegimesModerateCumulativeDisadvantagesOverTheLifeCourseCross-NationalEvidenceFromLongitudinalSHAREData.pdf 1017844 application/pdf restrictedAccess Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire de gérontologie et d'études des vulnérabilités Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de réadaptation et gériatrie Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut de démographie et de socioéconomie

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