TY  - JOUR
A1  - Liedl, Bernd
A1  - Fritsch, Nina-Sophie
A1  - Samper Mejia, Cristina
A1  - Verwiebe, Roland
T1  - Risk perceptions of individuals living in single-parent households during the COVID-19 crisis
BT  - examining the mediating and moderating role of income
JF  - Frontiers in sociology
N2  - The COVID-19 crisis had severe social and economic impact on the life of most citizens around the globe. Individuals living in single-parent households were particularly at risk, revealing detrimental labour market outcomes and assessments of future perspectives marked by worries. As it has not been investigated yet, in this paper we study, how their perception about the future and their outlook on how the pandemic will affect them is related to their objective economic resources. Against this background, we examine the subjective risk perception of worsening living standards of individuals living in single-parent households compared to other household types, their objective economic situation based on the logarithmised equivalised disposable household incomes and analyse the relationship between those indicators. Using the German SOEP, including the SOEP-CoV survey from 2020, our findings based on regression modelling reveal that individuals living in single-parent households have been worse off during the pandemic, facing high economic insecurity. Path and interaction models support our assumption that the association between those indicators may not be that straightforward, as there are underlying mechanisms–such as mediation and moderation–of income affecting its direction and strength. With respect to our central hypotheses, our empirical findings point toward (1) a mediation effect, by demonstrating that the subjective risk perception of single-parent households can be partly explained by economic conditions. (2) The moderating effect suggests that the concrete position at the income distribution of households matters as well. While at the lower end of the income distribution, single-parent households reveal particularly worse risk perceptions during the pandemic, at the high end of the income spectrum, risk perceptions are similar for all household types. Thus, individuals living in single-parent households do not perceive higher risks of worsening living standards due to their household situation per se, but rather because they are worse off in terms of their economic situation compared to individuals living in other household types.
KW  - COVID-19 pandemic
KW  - Germany
KW  - household types
KW  - individuals living in single-parent households
KW  - objective labour market outcome
KW  - subjective risk perception
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1265302
SN  - 2297-7775
VL  - 8
PB  - Frontiers Media
CY  - Lausanne
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lim, Misun
A1  - Samper Mejia, Cristina
T1  - Race and cohort differences in family status in the United States
JF  - Socius : sociological research for a dynamic world
N2  - In this visualization, the authors show changes in family patterns by different race groups across two cohorts. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (born from 1957 to 1965) and 1997 (born from 1980 to 1984), the authors visualize the relationship-parenthood state distributions at each age between 15 and 35 years by race and cohort. The results suggest the rise of cohabiting mothers and the decline of married and divorced mothers among women born from 1980 to 1984. Black women born from 1980 to 1984 were more likely to experience single/childless and single/parent status compared with Black women born from 1957 to 1965. Although with some visible postponement in the recent cohort, white women in both cohorts were more likely to experience married/parent status than other race groups. The decline in married/parent status across the two generations was sharpest among Hispanic women. These descriptive findings highlight the importance of identifying race when discussing changes in family formation and dissolution trends across generations.
KW  - family
KW  - race
KW  - cohort
KW  - demography
KW  - data visualization
Y1  - 2024
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231241241041
SN  - 2378-0231
VL  - 10
SP  - 1
EP  - 4
PB  - Sage Publications
CY  - London
ER  -