¿Influyen las trayectorias familiares en la calidad de vida percibida en la vejez?

Celia Fernández-Carro; Jordi Gumà

doi:10.22325/fes/res.2022.109

Do family trajectories influence the quality of life perceived in old age?

Authors

Celia Fernández-Carro Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9065-3528
Jordi Gumà Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2640-5391

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2022.109

Keywords:

Older people, life course, gender, CASP-12, Spain

Abstract

Life events related to family formation; partnership and having children, condition the structure of the social networks of older people, which in turn conditions the quality of life in old age. This work applies a life course approach to explore the relationship between family trajectories of older men and women in Spain and their quality of life. The analysis uses the retrospective data for Spain of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), to generate a typology of family trajectories separately for men and women. After this, we examine the association between the resulting typologies and the CASP-12 indicator of quality of life, using a multivariate lineal regression model. The results showed that only the individuals with trajectories characterized by having a partner but not having children have a considerable low level of quality of life in old age, regardless the sex of the person.

Author Biographies

Celia Fernández-Carro, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Celia Fernández-Carro es Doctora en Demografía por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona y profesora en el Departamento de Sociología III (Tendencias Sociales) de la UNED. Su línea de investigación explora los determinantes sociales del bienestar a edades avanzadas en un contexto de aumento de la longevidad, con especial atención al impacto que las redes de apoyo sociales y familiares de las personas mayores tienen sobre su salud.

Jordi Gumà, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Jordi Gumà es investigador del Departamento de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra. Su investigación se centra en los determinantes sociales de la salud desde una perspectiva de género y en las consecuencias sobre la salud y el bienestar del proceso de envejecimiento

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Published

2022-03-29

How to Cite

Fernández-Carro, C., & Gumà, J. (2022). Do family trajectories influence the quality of life perceived in old age?. Spanish Journal of Sociology, 31(2), a109. https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2022.109

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Issue

Vol. 31 No. 2 (2022): Miscellaneous articles and special issue on demography

Section

Números monográficos

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