TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jung, Jana
T1  - Partnership trajectories and their consequences over the life course
BT  - evidence from the German LifE Study
JF  - Advances in life course research
N2  - Objective: 
Following a life course perspective, this study examines the link between partnership trajectories and three dimensions of psychological well-being: psychological health, overall sense of self-worth and quality of life.

Background: 
Assuming that life outcomes are the result of prior decisions, experiences and events, partnership histories can be seen as a resource for psychological well-being. Furthermore, advantages or disadvantages from living with or without a partner should accumulate over time. While previous cross-sectional research has mainly focused on the influence of partnership status or a status change on well-being, prior longitudinal studies could not control for reverse causality of well-being and partnership trajectories. This research addresses the question of how different patterns of partnership biographies are related to a person's well-being in middle adulthood. Selection effects of pre-trajectory well-being as well as current life conditions are also taken into account.

Method: 
Using data from the German LifE Study, the partnership trajectories between ages of 16 and 45 are classified by sequence and cluster analysis. OLS regression is then used to examine the link between types of partnership trajectories and depression, self-esteem and overall life satisfaction at age 45.

Results: 
For women, well-being declined when experiencing unstable non-cohabitational union trajectories or divorce followed by unpartnered post-marital trajectories. Men suffered most from being long-term single. The results could not be explained by selection effects of pre-trajectory well-being.

Conclusion: 
While women seem to 'recover' from most of the negative effects of unstable partnership trajectories through a new partnership, for men it was shown that being mainly unpartnered has long-lasting effects on their psychological well-being.
KW  - Partnership trajectories
KW  - Well-being
KW  - Life course perspective
KW  - Cumulative advantages and disadvantages
KW  - Sequence analysis
KW  - German LifE
KW  - Study
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2022.100525
SN  - 1040-2608
VL  - 55
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Richter, Eric
A1  - Lazarides, Rebecca
A1  - Richter, Dirk
T1  - Four reasons for becoming a teacher educator
BT  - a large-scale study on teacher educators' motives and well-being
JF  - Teaching and teacher education : an international journal of research and studies
N2  - We developed a new survey instrument to investigate teacher educators? motives for entering the profession and examined the associations between motives and job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion in both teachers and teacher educators. Using data from 145 teacher educators instructing in-service teachers, we identified four motives: career aspirations, social contribution, escaping routines, and coincidence. While escaping routines represents a ?push? factor associated with emotional exhaustion in teachers, career aspirations represent a ?pull? factor associated with job satisfaction in teacher educators. The instrument can be used as a self-assessment tool for the recruitment of teacher educators. ? 2021 The Authors.
KW  - Teacher educator
KW  - Career change
KW  - Well-being
KW  - Emotional exhaustion
KW  - Professional development
KW  - Motives
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103322
SN  - 0742-051X
SN  - 1879-2480
VL  - 102
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -