Childlessness and Psychological Well-Being in Midlife and Old Age: An Examination of Parental Status Effects Across a Range of Outcomes

By T. Hansen, B. Slagsvold, T. Moum. 2009

193 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Health

1. Gene Bouchard
2. Sonja Lyubomirsky

In Social Psychology

1. Kostadin Kushlev
2. S. K. Nelson
3. Gene Bouchard
4. Sonja Lyubomirsky
5. Kennon M. Sheldon
6. E. Diener
7. D. Vella‐Brodrick
8. Cynthia Fisher

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Kostadin Kushlev
2. Gene Bouchard
3. S. K. Nelson
4. Sonja Lyubomirsky

Citations in the corpus

• How Do Parents React When Their Children Leave Home? An Integrative Review (2014, background): “Nevertheless, many researchers failed to find differences in psychological well-being or life satisfaction between parents with residential children, including those in the launching phase, and parents in the empty-nest stage (Axelson 1960; Dykstra and Keizer 2009; Gorchoff et al. 2008; Hansen et al”
• Suffer the little children: Measuring the effects of parenthood on well-being worldwide (2012, unknown): “Hansen et al. (2009) explore the effects of parental status on a range of psychological well-being outcomes, using data for 5,189 Norwegian individuals.”
• The pains and pleasures of parenting: when, why, and how is parenthood associated with more or less well-being? (2014, background): “In addition, continuously single (i.e., never-married) parents report lower levels of happiness and self-esteem and higher levels of depression than do married parents (Demo & Acock, 1996; Lansford, Ceballo, Abbey, & Stewart, 2001; see also Hansen et al., 2009).”