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highly unusual and limited to women without children. Upwards career moves were common,
most often in more than one career step.
5005.2 Women’s life-course trajectory patterns – An optimal matching analysis, Q. Huang,
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
In this study we attempted to find typologies of women’s life pathway patterns. Women’s
life-course trajectories (n=549) from age 16 to 43 were coded as a sequence of seven main
activities at 6-month intervals including study, full-time work, work and study, part-time work,
parental leave, unemployment and a rest category of miscellaneous. Optimal matching techniques
were applied to analyze the sequences. Nine distinctive life patterns were found. Individual’s life
role values were cross-tabulated with the patterns and reasonable correspondences were found.
Relationships between life-pathway patterns and socioeconomic status at age 43 were also
examined.
5005.3 Women’s middle age as related to their career patterns, G. Johansson, Stockholm
University, Stockholm, Sweden
On the basis of a longitudinal data base covering 568 Swedish women born in the 1950s, several
typical patterns of career development were identified. These patterns were based on information
on main activities recorded for each 6-month interval from adolescence until middle age and
characterized by the amount of study, full-time or part-time work, parental leave, etc. In this
presentation it is shown how such typical career patterns tend to be related to general well-being
and the pattern of mental and somatic health and disease of the same women as they have reached
middle age.
5005.4 Life-span exposure to psycho-social work conditions related to well-being among
middle-aged women, M. Sverke, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Research has consistently linked unfavorable work conditions to impaired well-being, but little is
known about the combined effects of exposure to psycho-social factors in a life-span perspective.
Using a sample of Swedish women, occupational codes from each six-month period from the
entry of working life until age 43 were matched with average levels (derived from a national
survey) of demands, control, and support for each occupation held by the women. Relating the
pooled effects over the course of the career to various indicators of well-being contribute to the
understanding of the factors involved in women’s well-being at work.
5006 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
The neuropsychology of childhood epilepsy
Convener and Chair: M. Lassonde, Canada
5006.1 Cognitive effects of childhood epilepsy, M. Lassonde, Université de Montréal,
Montréal, QC, Canada
Because it disrupts brain maturation, childhood epilepsy has long been thought to produce
non-specific consequences such as mental deficiency and behavioral problems. However, the
neuropsychology of childhood epilepsy has evolved tremendously in the last decade. This
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