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Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens
Richard A. SetterstenLaura BernardiJuho HärkönenToni C. AntonucciPearl A. DykstraJutta HeckhausenDiana KuhKarl Ulrich MayerPhyllis MoenJeylan T. MortimerClara H. MulderTimothy M. SmeedingTanja Van Der LippeGunhild O. HagestadMartin KohliRené LevyIngrid SchoonElizabeth ThomsonLeerstoel LippeSolidarity And Inequality Social Networkssubject
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Human lifeSocial inequalityArticle03 medical and health sciencescoronavirus disease 20190302 clinical medicineSociologylife domainsgenerationPandemicTaverneBehavioral and Social SciencePersonal control0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSocial inequality030212 general & internal medicineSociologyLife transitionsLife-span and Life-course StudiesAgegenerationsocial inequalityLife trajectoriesCoronavirus disease 2019business.industry05 social sciencesSocial changeSocial changesocial changeCohortCOVID-19cohortPublic relationsCoronavirusGood Health and Well Beingagelife transitionsSocial relationshipLife course approachLife domainsbusinesslife trajectories050104 developmental & child psychologydescription
Available online 22 July 2020. Other co-authors: ANTONUCCI, T. C., DYKSTRA, P. A., HECKHAUSEN, J., KUH, D., MAYER, K. U., MOEN, P., MORTIMER, J. T., MULDER, C. H., SMEEDING, T. M., VAN DER LIPPE, T., HAGESTAD, G. O., KOHLI, Martin, LEVY, R., SCHOON, I., & THOMSON, E. The Covid-19 pandemic is shaking fundamental assumptions about the human life course in societies around the world. In this essay, we draw on our collective expertise to illustrate how a life course perspective can make critical contributions to understanding the pandemic’s effects on individuals, families, and populations. We explore the pandemic’s implications for the organization and experience of life transitions and trajectories within and across central domains: health, personal control and planning, social relationships and family, education, work and careers, and migration and mobility. We consider both the life course implications of being infected by the Covid-19 virus or attached to someone who has; and being affected by the pandemic’s social, economic, cultural, and psychological consequences. It is our goal to offer some programmatic observations on which life course research and policies can build as the pandemic’s short- and long-term consequences unfold.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2020-09-01 |