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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 66 in total

  1. Nest leaver or home stayer? Sibling influence on parental home leaving in the United Kingdom

    Yu-Chin Her, Jorik Vergauwen, and Dimitri Mortelmans

    1. Demography
    2. Life Course Analysis
    3. Sociology
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Social Psychology

  2. Mental health and satisfaction with partners: a longitudinal analysis in the UK

    Paul Downward, Simona Rasciute, and Harish Kumar

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Social Psychology

  3. Biological costs and benefits of social relationships for men and women in adulthood: the role of partner, family and friends

    Patrick Rouxel, Tarani Chandola, Meena Kumari, et al.

    1. Social Networks
    2. Young People
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Sociology
    6. Social Behaviour
    7. Sociology Of Households
    8. Social Psychology
    9. Biology

  4. The changing impact of family background on political engagement during adolescence and early adulthood

    Jan Germen Janmaat and Bryony Hoskins

    1. Politics
    2. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Sociology Of Households
    8. Social Psychology

  5. Does ethnic diversity affect well-being and allostatic load among people across neighbourhoods in England?

    Danying Li, Miguel R. Ramos, Matthew R. Bennett, et al.

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Social Change
    6. Ethnic Groups
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Social Psychology

  6. Predicting the end of the pandemic: optimism vs pessimism. How does optimism and pessimism influence your well-being?

    David de Meza and Chris Dawson

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Finance
    7. Social Psychology
    8. Covid 19

  7. Neither an optimist nor a pessimist be: mistaken expectations lower well-being

    David de Meza and Chris Dawson

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Finance
    7. Social Psychology

  8. Assortative mating and turnout: a self-reinforcing pattern of unequal voting participation

    Moa Frödin Gruneau

    1. Politics
    2. Social Groups
    3. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    4. Family Formation And Dissolution
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Social Behaviour
    7. Sociology Of Households
    8. Social Psychology

  9. Giving behaviours and social cohesion: how people who 'give' make better communities

    Lorna Zischka

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Societies
    4. Social Capital
    5. Social Behaviour
    6. Social Psychology

  10. Economic shocks on subjective well-being: re-assessing the determinants of life-satisfaction after the 2008 financial crisis

    Aurelie Charles, Dongxu Wu, and Zhongmin Wu

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Economics
    4. Well Being
    5. Finance
    6. Social Psychology

  11. Unemployment, temporary work, and subjective well-being: the gendered effect of spousal labor market insecurity

    Hande Inanc

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Social Psychology

  12. The ‘mighty girl’ effect: does parenting daughters alter attitudes towards gender roles?

    Mireia Borrell-Porta, Joan Costa-Font, and Julia Philipp

    1. Life Course Analysis
    2. Social Attitudes
    3. Sociology Of Households
    4. Social Psychology

  13. Impacts of smoke-free public places legislation on inequalities in youth smoking uptake: study protocol for a secondary analysis of UK survey data

    Philip Emeka Anyanwu, Peter Craig, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Law And Legislation
    3. Young People
    4. Health
    5. Social Behaviour
    6. Social Psychology

  14. Regional and district peer effects in obesity: a UK panel data analysis

    Darshan Zala

    1. Area Effects
    2. Health
    3. Social Psychology

  15. Do environmental concerns affect commuting choices?: hybrid choice modelling with household survey data

    Jennifer Roberts, Gurleen Popli, and Rosemary J. Harris

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Psychology
    3. Transport
    4. Commuting
    5. Social Psychology

  16. Good childhood report 2017

    Larissa Pople and Gwyther Rees

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Psychology

  17. Couples’ division of employment and household chores and relationship satisfaction: a test of the specialization and equity hypotheses

    Niels Blom, Gerbert Kraaykamp, and Ellen Verbakel

    1. Psychology
    2. Time Use
    3. Labour Market
    4. Well Being
    5. Sociology Of Households
    6. Social Psychology

  18. The role of risk and trust attitudes in explaining residential energy demand: evidence from the United Kingdom

    Benjamin Volland

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Psychology
    3. Households
    4. Economics
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Sociology Of Households
    7. Social Psychology

  19. The 2005 London terror attacks: an investigation of changes in psychological wellbeing and social capital pre- and post-attacks (2003-07) - a UK panel study

    Giuseppe N. Giordano and Martin Lindström

    1. Crime And Justice
    2. Well Being
    3. Societies
    4. Social Capital
    5. Social Psychology

  20. Saying and doing gender: intergenerational transmission of attitudes towards the sexual division of labour

    Lucinda Platt and Javier Polavieja

    1. Young People
    2. Sociology Of Households
    3. Social Psychology

  21. A stalled revolution? What can we learn from women’s drop-out to part-time jobs: a comparative analysis of Germany and the UK

    Martina Dieckhoff, Vanessa Gash, Antje Mertens, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Social Psychology

  22. Diversity and neighbourhood satisfaction

    Monica Langella and Alan Manning

    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Networks
    3. Crime And Justice
    4. Ethnic Groups
    5. Well Being
    6. Societies
    7. Social Capital
    8. Social Behaviour
    9. Social Psychology

  23. Reliability and stability of the standard fear of crime indicator in a national panel over 14 years

    Rainer Schnell and Marcel Noack

    1. Area Effects
    2. Crime And Justice
    3. Psychology
    4. Survey Methodology
    5. Surveys
    6. Social Psychology

  24. The social orientations and ideologies of UK finance employees at the onset of the Global Financial Crisis

    Andreas Cebulla

    1. Psychology
    2. Management: Business
    3. Social Attitudes
    4. Finance
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Social Psychology

  25. Changes in social capital and cigarette smoking behaviour over time: a population-based panel study of temporal relationships

    Martin Lindström and Giuseppe N. Giordano

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Social Capital
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Psychology

  26. ‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity

    Paul Downward and Simona Rasciute

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Social Psychology

  27. The company you keep: personality and friendship characteristics

    Michael Laakasuo, Anna Rotkirch, Venla Berg, et al.

    1. Social Networks
    2. Social Capital
    3. Social Behaviour
    4. Social Psychology

  28. The good childhood report 2016

    Larissa Pople and Gwyther Rees

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Psychology

  29. Places and preferences: a longitudinal analysis of self-selection and contextual effects

    Aina Gallego, Franz Buscha, Patrick Sturgis, et al.

    1. Politics
    2. Area Effects
    3. Geography
    4. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    5. Migration
    6. Social Psychology

  30. A sociological analysis of associations between the family and well-being: roles, responsibilities, and relationships -PhD thesis-

    Debbie Hart

    1. Well Being
    2. Sociology Of Households
    3. Social Psychology

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