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Do welfare regimes moderate cumulative dis/advantages over the life course? Cross-national evidence from longitudinal SHARE data
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Sieber, Stefan
Cheval, Boris
Orsholits, Dan
Van der Linden, Bernadette
Guessous, Idris
Gabriel, Rainer
Kliegel, Matthias
Von Arx, Martina
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Published in The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 2020
Abstract 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.
Keywords Cumulative advantage/disadvantage — Early origins of health — Life course analysis — Self-rated health
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Other version: https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/advance-article/doi/10.1093/geronb/gbaa036/5811132
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de réadaptation et gériatrie
Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie
Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire de gérontologie et d'études des vulnérabilités
Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives
Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut de démographie et de socioéconomie
Research groups Centre LIVES
Cognitive Aging Lab (CAL)
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(ISO format) 		SIEBER, Stefan et al. Do welfare regimes moderate cumulative dis/advantages over the life course? Cross-national evidence from longitudinal SHARE data. In: Journals of Gerontology. B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2020. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa036 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:134571

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