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Multiple role occupancy and social participation among midlife wives and husbands in the United Kingdom

Multiple role occupancy and social participation among midlife wives and husbands in the United Kingdom
Multiple role occupancy and social participation among midlife wives and husbands in the United Kingdom
We investigated the relationship between intensive multiple role occupancy and one key dimension of well-being, social participation (i.e., frequency of participation in social and leisure activities and meeting friends or relatives). Moreover, we examined gender differences in the association between individual, spousal and couple intensive multiple role commitments and individual social participation. Our research is based on a sample of mid-life wives (45-59) and their husbands from the 2000 British Household Panel Study (BHPS). Our findings show that, among wives whose husbands were providing care to a dependent for 20 or more hours a week, there was a negative association with social and leisure activity participation, whereas husbands' level of participation in social and leisure activities was higher if their wives were in full-time paid work. We also found lower odds of meeting friends or relatives among wives and husbands in full-time employment, and higher odds of meeting friends and relatives among wives providing care for 20 or more hours a week. Our results will aid policy thinking in addressing how people can be best supported to balance work and family commitments in order to optimize different dimensions of well-being in later life and help alleviate the pressures associated with multiple-role occupancy in mid-life.
0091-4150
27-47
Evandrou, Maria
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Glaser, Karen
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Tomassini, Cecilia
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Evandrou, Maria
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Glaser, Karen
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Evandrou, Maria, Glaser, Karen and Tomassini, Cecilia (2006) Multiple role occupancy and social participation among midlife wives and husbands in the United Kingdom. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 63 (1), 27-47. (doi:10.2190/7LGV-01W9-KQBL-4121).

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We investigated the relationship between intensive multiple role occupancy and one key dimension of well-being, social participation (i.e., frequency of participation in social and leisure activities and meeting friends or relatives). Moreover, we examined gender differences in the association between individual, spousal and couple intensive multiple role commitments and individual social participation. Our research is based on a sample of mid-life wives (45-59) and their husbands from the 2000 British Household Panel Study (BHPS). Our findings show that, among wives whose husbands were providing care to a dependent for 20 or more hours a week, there was a negative association with social and leisure activity participation, whereas husbands' level of participation in social and leisure activities was higher if their wives were in full-time paid work. We also found lower odds of meeting friends or relatives among wives and husbands in full-time employment, and higher odds of meeting friends and relatives among wives providing care for 20 or more hours a week. Our results will aid policy thinking in addressing how people can be best supported to balance work and family commitments in order to optimize different dimensions of well-being in later life and help alleviate the pressures associated with multiple-role occupancy in mid-life.

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Published date: 2006

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Local EPrints ID: 39797
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/39797
ISSN: 0091-4150
PURE UUID: e6f698e1-da01-40d5-816b-ef79d513fedc
ORCID for Maria Evandrou: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2115-9358

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Date deposited: 29 Jun 2006
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:46

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Author: Karen Glaser
Author: Cecilia Tomassini

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