Marriage, Parenthood and Social Network: Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health in Old Age [Dataset]

DOI

Parenthood, marital status and social networks have been shown to relate to the well-being and mental health of older people. Using a large sample of respondents aged 50 and older from 16 European countries, we identify the associations of well-being and mental health with family status. Making use of detailed social network data of the respondents, we also identify how different social support networks correlate with the well-being and health indicators. We observe positive associations for all network types, over and beyond any direct associations of family status with well-being. Results suggest that non-residential children are important providers of social support for their parents at older age.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.11588/data/RNHJTE
Metadata Access https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.11588/data/RNHJTE
Provenance
Creator Becker, Christoph; Kirchmaier, Isadora; Trautmann, Stefan
Publisher heiDATA
Contributor Trautmann, Stefan; heiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository
Publication Year 2019
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
Contact Trautmann, Stefan (Alfred-Weber-Institute of Economics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany)
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/plain; application/x-stata-syntax; text/tab-separated-values
Size 3364; 57212; 1980; 4365; 23951; 23192; 417
Version 1.0
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences