Social sequencing to determine patterns in health and work-family trajectories for U.S. women, 1968-2013.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women's social roles (partnership, parenthood, and worker status) are associated with health, with more roles being associated with lower mortality rates. Few studies have examined social roles using a lifecourse perspective to understand how changing role dynamics affect health over time. Sequence analysis is one analytic technique for examining social trajectories.

Methods

Work-family trajectories were determined using social sequence analysis. We estimated mortality using age-standardized mortality rates and Poisson regression and examined the impact of personal income as a mediator.

Results

We identified 5 trajectory types according to probability distributions of work/marriage/child-rearing status and descriptions in previous research: Non-worki

SUBMITTER: McKetta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6261835 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature