Family Economic Adversity and Later-Life Physical Health and Well-being

An Integrative Framework

Kandauda A.S. Wickrama, Catherine Walker O'Neal, K.A. Thulitha Wickrama (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-1705-5 (ISBN)

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This book presents an integrative theoretical framework detailing five biopsychosocial mediating pathways linking family economic adversity to physical health and well-being in later years, with particular attention to how enduring couple relationships shape these outcomes and create dyadic dependencies. This framework integrates material, physiological, psychological, behavioral, and psychosocial resource pathways as well as potential modifiers of these pathways. Empirical and theoretical evidence from multiple research traditions such as life course, relational, family stress and common fate theories are synthesized to support the proposed framework. To explain the connection between family economic adversity and later life physical health and well-being, this framework takes a long-view and considers midlife as a stage with deep connections to both the preceding early middle years and the subsequent later years. This framework can be used to derive testable and comprehensive longitudinal, dyadic models in future research. Specific directions for future research are recommended.

Kandauda A. S. Wickrama is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia, United States). His research focuses on social determinants of health and health inequality across the life course and the application of advanced statistical methods to social epidemiology.Catherine Walker O'Neal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia, United States). Her major research interests include development over the life course and how stressful life experiences influence mental, relational, and physical health.K. A. Thulitha Wickrama is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Family and Human Development at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska, United States). His research interests include contextual, family, and individual life experiences over the life course that are influential for health and wellbeing outcomes.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
ISBN-10	1-0364-1705-0 / 1036417050
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-1705-5 / 9781036417055
Zustand	Neuware