Mens & Maatschappij - Volume 86, Issue 4, 2011

Continuity and change in intergenerational family relationships: An examination of shifts in relationship type over a three-year period. This paper focuses on shifts in adult child-parent relationship type using the first two waves of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS). The analyses are informed by both a life transitions perspective, and the negotiation of relationships perspective. The intergenerational relationships typol Read More

World War II and occupational status attainment. In this study we include personal war experiences in Duncan’s path model of status attainment to answer the following research question: To what extent can personal war experiences explain the occupational status of Dutch people who experienced World War II? We expect that personal war experiences have a detrimental effect on the human capital formation, which in Read More

The effects of economic inequality and modernization on religious disaffiliation. A test for the Netherlands in 1975-1995. In a recent study, using data from 60 nations, Ruiter and Van Tubergen (2009) found individuals from countries with highest economic inequalities to run the lowest risk of religious disaffiliation. Interestingly, modernization was found to have no effect on religious disaffiliation. A more stringent test is to inves Read More

The transition to parenthood and relationship satisfaction:. A longitudinal dyadic perspective. This study investigates to what extent (1) women’s and men’s relationship satisfaction within couples is similarly or differently affected by becoming a parent and (2) to what extent changes in work hours and hours spent on household labor affect a person’s own and their partner’s relationship satisfaction across the transition to par Read More