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Project

Women and men in new families and professional care seeking: a social relational approach
Code
01D23412
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Applied sociology
    • Policy and administration
    • Social psychology
    • Social stratification
    • Social theory and sociological methods
    • Sociology of life course, family and health
    • Other sociology and anthropology
Keywords
professional healthcare gender social support
 
Project description

This project studies the nexus between family arrangements, gender and professional care seeking behaviour. We build on the gender specific Health-related Social Control Theories. These suggest that intimate people try to influence each other's health behavior. In relationships, men and women may be a source of social control for each other. This project uses the multi-actor survey Divorce in Flanders.