Category: Journal Articles

Published and forthcoming journal articles

Rural–urban areas and children׳s behaviour

November 1, 2014

Rural–urban area of residence and trajectories of children’s behaviour in England is research looking at rural–urban impacts on child mental health. It models trajectories of emotional–behavioural problems of white majority children at ages 3, 5, and 7 in England in areas with varying levels of rural and urban settlement, using the Millennium Cohort Study. Access the article from the … More Rural–urban areas and children׳s behaviour

Smoking links between mothers and young people

August 28, 2014

Inter-generational concordance of smoking status between mothers and young people aged 10-15 in the UK uses Understanding Society to investigate the smoking status of young people aged 11-15 and their co-resident mothers. In addition to identifying who smokes and who doesn’t, the research looks at family factors that contribute to the odds of mothers and children being smokers … More Smoking links between mothers and young people

Occupational aspirations amongst children

May 12, 2014

Nurse or mechanic? Explaining sex-typed occupational aspirations amongst children  investigates the role of parental socialisation and children’s agency in the formation of sex-typed occupational preferences using data for British children aged 11 to 15. Access the article from the Social Forces journal website Photo credit: Christian Heilmann  

Long-term ill health and work

March 19, 2014

Long-term ill health and the social embeddedness of work: a study in a post-industrial, multi-ethnic locality explores the work experiences of long-term sick people in East London, a post-industrial, multi-ethnic locality. It demonstrates how the individual experiences of long-term sickness and work are embedded in social relations of class, generation, ethnicity and gender, which shape people’s formal … More Long-term ill health and work

Millennium Cohort Study

February 17, 2014

Cohort profile: UK Millennium Cohort Study  explains some of the background to this longitudinal data set, what’s in it, how researchers can access it etc. Access the article from the International Journal of Epidemiology website

Ethnicity and bullying in young people

August 4, 2013

Ethnicity and bullying involvement in a national UK youth sample uses Understanding Society to investigate ethnic differences in bullying involvement (as victim and bully), controlling for potential confounders, including age, gender, economic situation, family structure and parent–adolescent relationships. The article was published in the Journal of Adolescence. Access the article via Professor Dieter Wolke’s Research Gate profile