Life Course Trajectories of Perceived Control and Their Relationship to Education1

By J. Mirowsky, C. Ross. American Journal of Sociology, 2007

300 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Health

1. Fred C. Pampel
2. T. Hansen
3. P. M. Krueger
4. Justin T. Denney
5. B. Slagsvold

In Social Psychology

1. T. Hansen
2. B. Slagsvold

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Fred C. Pampel
2. T. Hansen
3. B. Slagsvold

Citations in the corpus

• Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviors (2010, background): “The increase in human capital, effective agency, and a sense of personal control that comes with greater education (Mirowsky & Ross 2007) proves particularly important in dealing with the difficulties of adopting and maintaining healthy lifestyles.2 In fact, highly educated persons may induce…”
• Late-Life Loneliness in 11 European Countries: Results from the Generations and Gender Survey (2016, background): “…attainment also enables persons to demonstrate greater competence and mastery over their lives, which in tur allows individuals to shape behavior in a way that increases social integration, promotes healthy psychological states, and reduces risk of loneliness in old age (Mirowsky and Ross 2007).”