Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life

INTRODUCTION : Inhabiting vulnerability throughout the life course,- Section 1: Vulnerability as a multidimensional process. Spillovers across life domains.- Subjective well-being, family dynamics and vulnerability.- Positive and negative spillover effects: Managing multiple goals in middle adulthood.- How personal relationships affect employment outcomes: On the role of social networks and family obligations.- When mobility meets gender in the multidimensional transnational life course.- Intimate partner loss in later life.- Synthesis: Multidimensional perspective of vulnerability and life course.- Section 2: Vulnerability at the articulation of levels.- Social policies, vulnerability and the life course: A complex nexus.- Vulnerabilities in local contexts.- How family and other close ties shape vulnerability processes.- The many faces of social connectedness and their impact on well-being.- Vulnerability and health issues: Trajectories, experiences and meanings.- Synthesis: Multilevel studies on vulnerability processes.- Section 3: The unfolding of vulnerable life trajectories.- Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and health in the second half of life: The role of gender and welfare states in the life course of Europeans.- Ageing and reserves.- Vulnerabilities and psychological adjustment resources in career development.- On the sociohistorical construction of social and economic reserves across the life course and on their use in old age.- Life trajectories as products and determinants of social vulnerability.- Synthesis: Overcoming vulnerability? The constitution and activation of reserves throughout life trajectories.- Section 4: Combining methods to study vulnerability processes.- Life calendars for the collection of life course data.- Mixed method approaches for data collection in hard-to-reach populations.- Combining data collection modes in longitudinal studies.- Combining event history and sequence analysis to study vulnerability over the life course.- Joint longitudinal and survival models to study vulnerability processes.- Synthesis: Combining methods for the analysis of vulnerability processes across the life course.- Book conclusion.- CONCLUSION: Overcoming vulnerability in the life course: Reflections on a research program.