Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword by Glen H. Elder, Jr
- Preface by John Bynner
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Risk and resilience: definitions
- 2 Towards a developmental-contextual systems model of adjustment
- 3 Persisting inequalities in times of social change
- 4 Selection, causation and cumulative risk effects
- 5 Protective factors and processes
- 6 Stability of early adjustment over time
- 7 Personal goals and life plans
- 8 Conclusions and outlook
- 9 Implications of findings for interventions and social policy
- Appendix A Two British birth cohorts
- Appendix B Response rates and handling of missing data
- Appendix C Description of variables used in the study
- References
- Index
Appendix A - Two British birth cohorts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword by Glen H. Elder, Jr
- Preface by John Bynner
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Risk and resilience: definitions
- 2 Towards a developmental-contextual systems model of adjustment
- 3 Persisting inequalities in times of social change
- 4 Selection, causation and cumulative risk effects
- 5 Protective factors and processes
- 6 Stability of early adjustment over time
- 7 Personal goals and life plans
- 8 Conclusions and outlook
- 9 Implications of findings for interventions and social policy
- Appendix A Two British birth cohorts
- Appendix B Response rates and handling of missing data
- Appendix C Description of variables used in the study
- References
- Index
Summary
This book reports on the experiences of two British birth cohorts, allowing a glimpse into how socio-historic change has impacted on individual lives. The UK is rather privileged in that respect, as it has four national birth cohort studies following the lives of individuals born in 1946, 1958, 1970, and most recently in 2000/01 (Dex & Joshi, 2004; Ferri et al., 2003; Wadsworth, 1991). These studies offer the unique opportunity to gain a better understanding of the context dependency of adjustment in changing times, and to assess the impact of social change on individual lives.
The evidence presented here is based on research on data collected for two of the British birth cohorts, the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). Both cohort studies were launched to investigate antenatal and post-natal service provision, perinatal mortality and morbidity. Both collected information about almost all births occurring nationwide in a target week in 1958 and in 1970 respectively. The development of over 30,000 individuals was followed at further sweeps of data collection at various ages, spanning the period from birth to mid-adulthood.
The National Child Development Study (NCDS)
NCDS originated as the Perinatal Mortality Survey (PMS), a study of virtually every baby born in England, Scotland and Wales during the week of 3–9 March 1958. Information on 17,415 children was obtained from the mothers by the midwives involved and from medical records.
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- Risk and ResilienceAdaptations in Changing Times, pp. 170 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006