ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2020
Women's Work-Family Histories and Cognitive Performance in Later Life.
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- Peeking under the Hood of Job Stress: How Men and Women's Stress Levels Vary by Typologies of Job Quality and Family Composition.Journal of health and social behavior · 2024Article
- Mid-life employment trajectories and subsequent memory function and rate of decline in rural South Africa, 2000-22.International journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform: resources for studying life courses across Europe.European journal of ageing · 2023Article
- Gendered life courses and cognitive functioning in later life: the role of context-specific gender norms and lifetime employment.European journal of ageing · 2023Article
- Work-family trajectories across Europe: differences between social groups and welfare regimes.Frontiers in sociology · 2023Article
- Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2022Article
- Cumulative employment intensity and complexity across the life course and cognitive function in later life among European women and men.Annals of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Association of work-family experience with mid- and late-life memory decline in US women.Neurology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Long-term exposures to the stress and stimulation of different work, parenting, and partnership combinations might influence later life cognition. We investigated the relationship between women's work-family life histories and cognitive functioning in later life. Analyses were based on data from women born between 1930 and 1957 in 14 European countries, from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (2004-2009) (n = 11,908). Multichannel sequence analysis identified 5 distinct work-family typologies based on women's work, partnership, and childrearing statuses between ages 12 and 50 years. Multilevel regressions were used to test the association between work-family histories and later-life cognition. Partnered mothers who mainly worked part-time had the best cognitive function in later life, scoring approximately 0.63 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.18, 1.07) points higher than mothers who worked full-time on a 19-point scale. Partnered mothers who were mainly unpaid caregivers or who did other unpaid activities had cognitive scores that were 1.19 (95% CI: 0.49, 1.89) and 0.93 (95% CI: 0.20, 1.66) points lower than full-time working mothers. The findings are robust to adjustment for childhood advantage and educational credentials. This study provides new evidence that long-term exposures to certain social role combinations after childhood and schooling are linked to later-life cognition.
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