Getting back to normal? Identity and role disruptions among adults with Long COVID.

Long COVID is a novel chronic illness with a variety of symptoms that people who have labelled themselves 'long-haulers' experience for an extended duration following a COVID-19 infection. We draw on in-depth interviews conducted in March-April 2021 with 20 working-aged adults in the U.S.

Support amid uncertainty: Long COVID illness experiences and the role of online communities.

Long COVID is characterized by persistent and debilitating long-term symptoms from COVID-19. Many persons with Long COVID began gathering in online communities during the early phases of the pandemic to share their illness experiences. This qualitative interview study explored the subjective experiences of 20 persons with Long COVID recruited from five online communities.

Does Adolescent Family Structure Predict Military Enlistment? A Comparison of Post-High School Activities.

This paper investigates the link between adolescent family structure and the likelihood of military enlistment in young adulthood, as compared to alternative post-high school activities. We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and multinomial logistic regression analyses to compare the odds of military enlistment with college attendance or labor force involvement. We find that alternative family structures predict enlistment relative to college attendance.

Status Configurations, Military Service and Higher Education.

The U.S. Armed Forces offer educational and training benefits as incentives for service.

Racial differences in depression trajectories among older women: socioeconomic, family, and health influences.

Despite recent increases in life course research on mental illness, important questions remain about the social patterning of, and explanations for, depression trajectories among women in later life. The authors investigate competing theoretical frameworks for the age patterning of depressive symptoms and the physical health, socioeconomic, and family mechanisms differentiating black and white women. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, the authors use linear mixed (growth curve) models to estimate trajectories of distress for women aged 52 to 81 years (N = 3,182).

The mental health and psychosocial adjustment of Cuban immigrants in south Florida.

Given documented variation in pre-migration and migration-related experiences, Cuban immigrants in the U.S. who arrived during or subsequent to 1980 may be disadvantaged in mental health and psychosocial adjustment relative to earlier arrivals.

Adolescents' Sexual Initiation: The Interaction of Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status.

This paper provides an in-depth examination of the joint effects of race/ethnicity and immigrant status on adolescents' intercourse risk. We employ a sample of 4,535 females and 3,759 males from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS 88/94) who were followed for 6 years beginning in the eighth grade. We use discrete-time logistic regression models to estimate the associations of race/ethnicity and immigrant generational status with first intercourse hazard, and to evaluate the statistical interactions between race/ethnicity and immigrant status.

Pathways to the All-Volunteer Military.

OBJECTIVES: The present study investigates the role of a disadvantaged background, the lack of social connectedness, and behavioral problems in channeling young men to the opportunities of the all-volunteer military instead of to college and the labor market. METHODS: Data from three waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in the United States. The analytic sample consists of 6,938 white, black, and other males.

Age at first birth, parity, and post-reproductive mortality among white and black women in the US, 1982-2002.

We investigate the relationship between the timing of first birth, parity, and women's risk of post-reproductive mortality over twenty-one years (1982-2002), among representative samples of black and white women in the United States. Data are taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. We find early childbearing to be associated with higher mortality among whites, while later childbearing is associated with higher mortality among blacks.

The Long-Term Consequences of Childbearing: Physical and Psychological Well-Being of Mothers in Later Life.

Growing evidence points to relationships between patterns of childbearing and health outcomes for mothers; yet a need remains to clarify these relationships over the long-term and to understand the underlying mechanisms. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women (N=1,608), I find that the long-term consequences of childbearing vary by health outcome. Early childbearing is associated with higher risk of ADL limitations at ages 65-83, though effects appear stronger among white than black mothers until SES is controlled.