Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life: Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves
INTRODUCTION: Inhabiting vulnerability throughout the life course,- Section 1: Vulnerability as a multidimensional process. Spillovers across life domains -- Subjective well-being, family dynamics and vulnerability -- Positive and negative spillover effects: Managing multiple goals in middle adulthood -- How personal relationships affect employment outcomes: On the role of social networks and family obligations -- When mobility meets gender in the multidimensional transnational life course -- Intimate partner loss in later life -- Synthesis: Multidimensional perspective of vulnerability and life course -- Section 2: Vulnerability at the articulation of levels -- Social policies, vulnerability and the life course: A complex nexus -- Vulnerabilities in local contexts -- How family and other close ties shape vulnerability processes -- The many faces of social connectedness and their impact on well-being -- Vulnerability and health issues: Trajectories, experiences and meanings -- Synthesis: Multilevel studies on vulnerability processes -- Section 3: The unfolding of vulnerable life trajectories -- Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and health in the second half of life: The role of gender and welfare states in the life course of Europeans -- Ageing and reserves -- Vulnerabilities and psychological adjustment resources in career development -- On the sociohistorical construction of social and economic reserves across the life course and on their use in old age -- Life trajectories as products and determinants of social vulnerability -- Synthesis: Overcoming vulnerability? The constitution and activation of reserves throughout life trajectories -- Section 4: Combining methods to study vulnerability processes -- Life calendars for the collection of life course data -- Mixed method approaches for data collection in hard-to-reach populations -- Combining data collection modes in longitudinal studies -- Combining event history and sequence analysis to study vulnerability over the life course -- Joint longitudinal and survival models to study vulnerability processes -- Synthesis: Combining methods for the analysis of vulnerability processes across the life course -- Book conclusion -- CONCLUSION: Overcoming vulnerability in the life course: Reflections on a research program.