World War II Mobilization in Men’s Work Lives: Continuity or Disruption for the Middle Class?

The labor needs of World War II fueled a growing demand for both military and war industry personnel. This longitudinal study investigates mobilization into these competing activities and their work life effects among men from the middle class. Hazard estimates show significant differences in wartime activities across occupations, apart from other deferment criteria. By war’s end, critical employment, in contrast to military service, is positively associated with supervisory responsibility for younger men and with occupation change. This empoloyment does not predict postwar career advancement up to the 1970s. By comparison, men who were officers had a “pipeline” to advancement after the war, whereas other service men fared worse than nonveterans

The Influence of Work Control Trajectories on Men's Mental and Physical Health During the Middle Years: Mediational Role of Personal Control

This study investigates whether increasing health heterogeneity during the middle years is attributed, in part, to the influence of varying levels of, and changes in, work control among members of a rural Midwestern cohort. Specific study objectives are to examine (1) how trajectories of work control influence men’s mental and physical health outcomes and (2) how this influence is mediated by the trajectories of personal control during the middle years

Military combat and burden of subclinical atherosclerosis in middle aged men: The ARIC Study

Studies of the cardiovascular consequences of combat stress are few and inconclusive

Insights on Adolescence from A Life Course Perspective

In this essay, we argue that viewing adolescence within the full life course will improve our understanding of both adolescence itself and the life course more generally. Such an approach makes explicit how adolescence is linked to developmental processes in the years both before and after adolescence in ways that are shaped by broader patterns of social change. We highlight insights from research over the past decade that illustrate the kinds of life course questions about adolescence that need to be posed in the next decade, focusing on connections between adolescence and the two life stages that border it: childhood and young adulthood. Although life course themes cut across the many different topics that adolescence scholars typically study, we draw our examples from three specific substantive areas-educational success, puberty, and problem behavior

Pubertal transition, stressful life events, and the emergence of gender differences in adolescent depressive symptoms.

This study examined the role of both pubertal and social transitions in the emergence of gender differences in depressive symptoms during adolescence. This study generated the following findings: (a) Gender differences in depressive symptoms emerged during 8th grade and remained significant through 12th grade, (b) Pubertal status in 7th grade was related to adolescent depressive symptoms over time, (c) Early-maturing girls represented the group with the highest rate of depressive symptoms, (d) Depressive symptoms measured in 7th grade predicted subsequent symptom levels throughout the secondary school years, (e) Recent stressful life events were associated with increased depressive symptoms, (f) Early-maturing girls with higher levels of initial symptoms and more recent stressful life events were most likely to be depressed subsequently. The findings demonstrate the importance of the interaction between the pubertal transition and psychosocial factors in increasing adolescent vulnerability to depressive experiences. One of the most consistent findings in the mental health litera-ture is the significant gender difference in depression among adults (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991). Rates of depression are approximately 2 to 3 times higher among women than men (Culbertson, 1997)