Family Life-Cycle Transitions: Longitudinal Effects on Family Members

Steven L. Nock

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This research sought to describe the individual consequences of six types of family transitions. Transitions into and out of marriage, (remarriage, divorce, widowhood, and first marriage) and changes in parental status (birth of first child in 10 years, birth of additional child in 5 years), were used as family transitions. Self assessments on 10 subjective aspects of life were considered as possible consequences of such transitions. A national sample of approximatley 1,500 adults was followed fbr approximately 5 years. Personal interviews with these individuals were conducted at the beginning and the end of the study. Regression analysis was employed to explain changes in subjective evaluations of life from the beginning to the end of the study using the family transitions as independent variables. Controls were intro-

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