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Pathways towards well-being

Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2020

This set of papers has come independently from a number of places and disciplines, but, as befits the journal's theme, all of them explore some aspect of human wellbeing, over various stages of the life course, using various sources of longitudinal data. The outcomes considered range from health, behavioural and emotional adjustment to life satisfaction and body mass, analysed in terms of some antecedent social, psychological and biological predictors. The countries where the evidence is taken range from Australia, England, Germany, New Zealand, Scotland and the US. The first research article covers a broad sweep of ages from 3 to 75. In 'Early-life circumstances and the risk of later function-limiting long-term conditions in later life', Matthew Iveson, Chris Dibben and Ian Deary follow linked records on children born in Scotland in 1936. These are a population register on home circumstances in 1939, an all-Scotland test of the cognitive ability at age 11, the level of their educational attainment and adult social class leading to a set of health indicators from the censuses of 1991, 2001 and 2011. The Scottish Longitudinal Study provides a linked subsample of the census that records the prevalence of any limiting long-term condition at age 55, 65 and 75, self-assessed general health at 65 and 75, and details on types of functional impairment at age 75. Path modelling is used to show how the links of early-life conditions and ability can be traced through to later life outcomes, and how far these links are fed through intervening experience of education and occupation. The extent of mediation increases with the age at measurement, but some direct impact of early years can still be detected. This paper complements another one by these authors using the same data source and a slightly different modelling strategy taking economic activity, of men and women separately, in the same range of ages from 55 to 75. 'Childhood socioeconomic circumstances, cognitive function and education and later-life economic activity: linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1947 to administrative data' can be found (Open Access

Pathways to Positive Futures: State-Of-The-Science Conference Proceedings

2013

ver the last decade, evidence has mounted showing that young people with serious mental health conditions experience a variety of challenges as they mature into adulthood. On average, their educational, economic and vocational outcomes are distinctly worse than their peers', and they are more likely to experience homelessness, to struggle with substance use, and to be involved with corrections systems.

Book Review: Well-Being: In Search of a Good Life?

Journal of Social Policy, 2009

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