Mens & Maatschappij - Volume 93, Issue 2, 2018

Abstract Combining multiple roles by older adults: does it reduce or enhance wellbeing? Older adults increasingly combine employment with informal care and/or voluntary work. This is good for society but raises the question whether combining multiple roles is also good for individual well-being. Based on data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (N = 1885), associations between role combinations, role inten Read More

Abstract Income inequality and the increase in ‘emotional disturbed behavior’: A sociological search for explanations of the increase in police-reported ‘emotionally disturbed persons’ The Netherlands have witnessed a strong increase in the number of reports received by police on ‘emotionally disturbed persons’– or actually people with ‘misunderstood behavior’. Much speculation has followed on the underlying cau Read More