Harvey Krahn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 106229 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Harvey Krahn |
| NOMBRES | Harvey |
| APELLIDO | Krahn |
| FIRMA | KRAHN H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0445-1573 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 468 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Economic Self-Interest and Support for Income Redistribution from Early Adulthood to Midlife
Valuable Lives to Save’ vs. ‘Babysitting These People While They Try to Kill Themselves’
North American police responses to the ‘drug issue’ have long been shaped by a crime control rather than a harm reduction imperative. Consequently, police officers’ responses to safe consumption sites (SCSs), where people who use illicit drugs can reduce personal health risks by administering previously obtained drugs in the presence of trained staff, were initially hostile. This paper draws on interview data from police officers in two western C…
Self-rated mental health in the transition to adulthood predicts depressive symptoms in midlife
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years
Trajectories of perceived stress from the transition to adulthood (age 25), during young adulthood (age 32), and into midlife (ages 43 and 50) were examined with four waves of longitudinal survey data ( N = 688; 49% female, 37% with a university degree, 86% White). We explored how between- and within-person variation in perceived stress was associated with age 50 psychological well-being (life satisfaction and eudaimonic well-being), self-reporte…
Another Attempt to Move Beyond the Cross-Sectional U Shape of Happiness
In this reply to Blanchflower and Graham (2021), we address key points in their response to our article, which challenged the robustness of the U shape in different contexts and aimed to move scholarship on life-course happiness beyond a focus on a single cross-sectional curve. We attend to apparent misconceptions in their portrayal of our arguments, identify points of agreement, and emphasize the value of exploring diversity rather than searchin…
New drugs, new fears
Police officers’ work environment is continually changing, with new risks emerging quickly and unpredictably – increasing officer stress and anxiety in the process. The recent emergence of the synthetic opioid fentanyl as an illicit recreational drug has introduced into police work new, potentially life-threatening, but also somewhat ambiguous risks. Police organizations have modified their policies and practices to manage the dangers posed by th…
Family context, life transitions, and subjective well-being from age 18 to 50 years
This study examined how family context at age 18 (parent-adolescent conflict, parental support, parent education) predicted between-person variation in subjective well-being (SWB; depressive symptoms and self-esteem) trajectories from age 18 to 50 years. Timing of leaving home, getting married, and becoming a parent were explored as life transitions linking family context to within-person variation in SWB. The sample consisted of 604 participants…
Narcan and Narcan't
Intrinsically Rewarding Work and Generativity in Midlife
Work is a productive activity that can also contribute to the well-being of the next generation. Using two waves of data from the Edmonton Transitions Study, this research examined the link between intrinsically rewarding work and generativity, or one's perceived contributions to society. Controlling for relevant variables, more intrinsically rewarding work at age 43 predicted increasing generativity over the next seven years, and increases in in…
The U Shape of Happiness Across the Life Course
The notion of a U shape in happiness—that well-being is highest for people in their 20s, decreases to its nadir in midlife, and then rises into old age—has captured the attention of the media, which often cite it as evidence for a midlife crisis. We argue that support for the purported U shape is not as robust and generalizable as is often assumed and present our case with the following arguments: (a) Cross-sectional studies are inadequate for dr…
Convoys of perceived support from adolescence to midlife
Data from 963 Canadians at ages 18 (late adolescence), 25 (young adulthood), and 43 (midlife) were used to explore convoys of perceived social support from parents, other family, friends, partners, coworkers, and children. Latent profile and latent transition analyses revealed two support profiles at each age, distinguished by amount of family support. Those with high family support had a high likelihood (approximately 80%) of remaining in that p…
Wanting To Be Remembered
Previous research on generativity, the desire to leave a legacy through establishing and guiding the next generation, has focused primarily on family life and civic engagement as pathways to midlife generativity. This paper proposes that intrinsically rewarding work can also be associated with a heightened sense of generativity in midlife. We test this hypothesis with data ( n = 369 employed individuals, approximately 43 years old) from the 2010 …
Enlightenment or status defence? Education and social problem concerns from adolescence to midlife
This paper asks whether concerns about social problems decline with age. Unconditional growth models (without covariates) revealed a decline over 25 years (age 18 to 43) in concerns about racial discrimination, treatment of Aboriginal Peoples, female job discrimination, unemployment and environmental pollution. Educational attainment was not associated with these change trajectories in conditional control models, providing no support for enlighte…
The anger–depression connection
Six waves of data from 944 Canadian high school seniors surveyed for 25 years (age 18 to 43) were analyzed to compare three models of the temporal associations between expressed anger and depressive symptoms (anger→depression; depression→anger; anger↔depression) and a between-persons differences only model (↑anger = ↑depression). Perceived availability of social support was examined as a mediator of the anger-depression association. Random interc…
Trajectories of perceived support from family, friends, and lovers in the transition to adulthood
Trajectories of perceived support from family, friends, and lovers were examined in 923 high school seniors surveyed across the transition to adulthood (ages 18, 19, 20, 22, and 25). Growth models revealed a cubic pattern of support from family members, which peaked at age 20, no change in friend support, and a linear decrease in lover support. Women reported higher levels of support than did men for all sources except fathers. Over time, friend …
Quick, uncertain, and delayed adults
The transition from youth to adulthood in western societies has become more prolonged and complex as traditional societal norms have lost influence. Using retrospective data from a cohort of 43-year-old Canadians surveyed in 2010 (n = 405), we mapped the timing, sequencing, and duration of ‘first stage’ youth-adult transitions (leaving home, finishing formal education, obtaining a full-time job) and ‘second stage’ youth-adult transitions (marriag…
Time, Money, or Gender? Predictors of the Division of Household Labour Across Life Stages
Youth Unemployment and Career Scarring
Unemployment has career scarring effects for adults, and sometimes for youth, but previous research has not directly demonstrated how this occurs. This 14-year (1985-99) longitudinal study reveals that cumulative unemployment between age 18 and age 32 has a negative effect on both total income and quality of employment at age 32. This scarring effect is not mediated by parallel changes in self-esteem, perceived control or extrinsic work values. L…
Self‐esteem trajectories across 25 years and midlife intimate relations
Guided by a life‐span developmental systems approach, this study examined links between self‐esteem assessed over 25 years and adaptive interaction and relationship risk at midlife using data from 341 Canadian adults surveyed (or followed) from ages 18 to 43. Results showed higher self‐esteem at age 18 was associated with more adaptive interactions and lower perceived relationship risk at age 43. A more rapid increase in self‐esteem through the t…
Growth in perceived control across 25 years from the late teens to midlife
This study examined trajectories of perceived control and their association with parents' education and personal educational experience (educational attainment and years of full-time postsecondary education) in 971 Canadian high school seniors tracked 7 times across 25 years. Latent growth models showed that, on average, perceived control increased from age 18 to age 25 and decreased by age 32, with a further slower decrease by age 43. Parents' e…
Up, not down
Happiness is an important indicator of well-being, and little is known about how it changes in the early adult years. We examined trajectories of happiness from early adulthood to midlife in 2 Canadian longitudinal samples: high school seniors followed from ages 18-43 and university seniors followed from ages 23-37. Happiness increased into the 30s in both samples, with a slight downturn by age 43 in the high school sample. The rise in happiness …
Exploring or Floundering? The Meaning of Employment and Educational Fluctuations in Emerging Adulthood
Youth today spend years moving in and out of different education and employment statuses until they settle into stable employment. This 14-year Canadian longitudinal study reveals how month-to-month fluctuations in employment and educational statuses from age 19 to 25 predict employment success at age 32. Early employment instability was linked to lower income at age 32 and, among men, to lower occupational status and career satisfaction. However…
Developmental trajectories of work values and job entitlement beliefs in the transition to adulthood
Employing a life span developmental systems perspective, this study used a 5-wave (1985-1992) Canadian longitudinal data set (N = 404) to examine trajectories of intrinsic and extrinsic work values and job entitlement beliefs from age 18 to 25. Piecewise growth models (Slope 1: age 18-20; Slope 2: age 20-25) showed intriguing patterns of change. Unconditional and conditional models suggested downward trends in all 3 measures from age 18 to 20. Af…
Work values and beliefs of ‘Generation X’ and ‘Generation Y’
This study examined cohort differences and intraindividual change in the intrinsic and extrinsic work values and job entitlement beliefs of Canadian high school seniors (classes of 1985 and 1996, representing ‘Generation X’ and ‘Generation Y’, respectively) surveyed at age 18 and again at age 25. The 1996 cohort placed more value on extrinsic work rewards (at age 25) and reported stronger job entitlement beliefs. Intrinsic work values increased i…
Rural-urban origin and fear of crime
Depression, self-esteem, and anger in emerging adulthood
This study used a school-based community sample (N=920) to examine trajectories of depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and expressed anger in the critical years of emerging adulthood (ages 18-25). Using data from 5 waves, the authors discovered that multilevel models indicated that, on average, depressive symptoms and expressed anger declined, whereas self-esteem increased. Between-persons predictors of variability in trajectories included gender (…
Income Inequality and Homicide Rates
Previous studies have identified but failed to explain satisfactorily the positive relationship between income inequality and homicide rates. This paper proposes an explanation based on the concept of relative deprivation, but also reviews the criminological literature in a search for other theoretically relevant variables. After assessing problems of sampling and measurement, and using a considerably larger sample than used in previous studies, …
Time, Money, or Gender? Predictors of the Division of Household Labour Across Life Stages
The Retention of Newcomers in Second- and Third-Tier Canadian Cities
The federal government of Canada and several provincial governments are anxious to promote a more balanced distribution of immigrants across the country. Currently, 89 percent of all newcomers settle in large cities, 75 percent in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal alone. This study examines the internal migration of refugees destined to second-and third-tier cities in Alberta. Their decisions to stay in or leave these communities have significant …
Work values and beliefs of ‘Generation X’ and ‘Generation Y’
This study examined cohort differences and intraindividual change in the intrinsic and extrinsic work values and job entitlement beliefs of Canadian high school seniors (classes of 1985 and 1996, representing ‘Generation X’ and ‘Generation Y’, respectively) surveyed at age 18 and again at age 25. The 1996 cohort placed more value on extrinsic work rewards (at age 25) and reported stronger job entitlement beliefs. Intrinsic work values increased i…
Downshifting
“Downshifting,” reducing work hours, thereby income, to increase leisure time, offers a possible individual‐level solution to the stress many experience from long working hours and work intensification. Recently, some have argued that an increase in leisure time with a reduction in income might also foster pro‐environmental lifestyles as has been demonstrated for the “voluntary simplicity” movement. Quantitative research on the relationship betwe…
Trajectories of perceived support from family, friends, and lovers in the transition to adulthood
Trajectories of perceived support from family, friends, and lovers were examined in 923 high school seniors surveyed across the transition to adulthood (ages 18, 19, 20, 22, and 25). Growth models revealed a cubic pattern of support from family members, which peaked at age 20, no change in friend support, and a linear decrease in lover support. Women reported higher levels of support than did men for all sources except fathers. Over time, friend …
The Persistence of Social Structure
From a rational action perspective, one might predict that the occupational aspirations and expectations of Canadian youth would have declined between the 1970s and the 1990s as the youth labour market deteriorated. Whether or not such a shift in the level of occupational goals was observed, a late modernity analysis would predict that social class, gender, and urban-rural residence would become less prominent determinants of aspirations and expe…
Work Aspirations and Attitudes in an Era of Labour Market Restructuring
This article tests the assumption that youth's work attitudes are changing to reflect the restructured labour markets that often are taken as a characteristic of late-modernity. Comparing 1985 and 1996 cohorts of high school leavers in a Canadian city, we find that occupational aspirations increased significantly since 1985, especially among females, in ways consistent with employment trends in a service-based economy. However, the 1985 and 1996 …
High School Dropouts, Labor Market Success, and Criminal Behavior
Living through our children
The purpose of this paper is to explore the links between the experiences of parents and youth within racialized immigrant families to gain a better appreciation of intergenerational dynamics, drawing on interviews and preinterview surveys with 47 immigrant youth and their parents. Our thematic analysis of data explores the diversity of families' immigration experiences, labor market challenges for parents, shared family discourses of sacrifice a…
Narcan and Narcan't
Producing Personal Safety
Aggregate data from a sample of 23 Canadian cities are used to examine relationships among crime rates, police staffing rates, fear of crime, and citizens’crime prevention behaviors. Bivariate and path analyses reveal positive correlations between fear of crime and parallel production (crime prevention behaviors) and negative impacts of police force size on such behaviors. Crime rates have both direct and indirect positive effects (via fear of cr…
Quick, uncertain, and delayed adults
The transition from youth to adulthood in western societies has become more prolonged and complex as traditional societal norms have lost influence. Using retrospective data from a cohort of 43-year-old Canadians surveyed in 2010 (n = 405), we mapped the timing, sequencing, and duration of ‘first stage’ youth-adult transitions (leaving home, finishing formal education, obtaining a full-time job) and ‘second stage’ youth-adult transitions (marriag…
Growth in perceived control across 25 years from the late teens to midlife
This study examined trajectories of perceived control and their association with parents' education and personal educational experience (educational attainment and years of full-time postsecondary education) in 971 Canadian high school seniors tracked 7 times across 25 years. Latent growth models showed that, on average, perceived control increased from age 18 to age 25 and decreased by age 32, with a further slower decrease by age 43. Parents' e…
Exploring or Floundering? The Meaning of Employment and Educational Fluctuations in Emerging Adulthood
Youth today spend years moving in and out of different education and employment statuses until they settle into stable employment. This 14-year Canadian longitudinal study reveals how month-to-month fluctuations in employment and educational statuses from age 19 to 25 predict employment success at age 32. Early employment instability was linked to lower income at age 32 and, among men, to lower occupational status and career satisfaction. However…
Depression and Anger Trajectories During the Transition to Adulthood
The current study examined within-person (transitions in living situation and parent status) and between-persons (age, gender, parent education) predictors of trajectories of depressive and angry symptoms in 577 university graduates (ages 20 to 29) tracked for 7 years. Multilevel models determined that depressive and angry symptoms declined on average. Depressive symptoms were associated with leaving home when younger and living with parents when…
My Grandfather Would Roll Over in His Grave
In this paper we hypothesize that farmers with a stronger valuation of family farming will be more resistant to converting farmland to tree plantations. Our survey data analysis from 106 farmers in northern Alberta reveals that general opposition to trees on farmland is the strongest predictor of farmers' resistance to the establishment of poplar tree plantations on privately-owned land. Valuation of family farming is the strongest determinant of…
Up, not down
Happiness is an important indicator of well-being, and little is known about how it changes in the early adult years. We examined trajectories of happiness from early adulthood to midlife in 2 Canadian longitudinal samples: high school seniors followed from ages 18-43 and university seniors followed from ages 23-37. Happiness increased into the 30s in both samples, with a slight downturn by age 43 in the high school sample. The rise in happiness …
Individual- and Community-level Determinants of Support for Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Canada
Cet article examine, chez les particuliers et dans la collectivité, des déterminants d'appui à l'endroit de 1'immigration et de la diversité culturelle. L'analyse teste, au niveau des particuliers, des hypothèses inspirées par la théorie des ressources limitées, celle du contact et celle du progressisme liéà l'instruction; au niveau de la collectivité, elle tient compte des effets d'un certain nombre de variables. Rien n'étaie la théorie du conta…
Self‐referenced’ relative deprivation and economic beliefs
Dans cette communication, les auteurs examinent un modèle théorique selon lequel le sentiment de vivre une privation relative joue un rôle important dans la traduction de l'expérience de difficultés économiques en une ‘idéologie économique’ plus à gauche sur le spectre des options politiques. Les données de l'enquête révèlent que les Albertains qui ont dû réduire leurs dépenses en raison de la récession du milieu des années 1980 avaient effective…
Convoys of perceived support from adolescence to midlife
Data from 963 Canadians at ages 18 (late adolescence), 25 (young adulthood), and 43 (midlife) were used to explore convoys of perceived social support from parents, other family, friends, partners, coworkers, and children. Latent profile and latent transition analyses revealed two support profiles at each age, distinguished by amount of family support. Those with high family support had a high likelihood (approximately 80%) of remaining in that p…
Developmental trajectories of work values and job entitlement beliefs in the transition to adulthood
Employing a life span developmental systems perspective, this study used a 5-wave (1985-1992) Canadian longitudinal data set (N = 404) to examine trajectories of intrinsic and extrinsic work values and job entitlement beliefs from age 18 to 25. Piecewise growth models (Slope 1: age 18-20; Slope 2: age 20-25) showed intriguing patterns of change. Unconditional and conditional models suggested downward trends in all 3 measures from age 18 to 20. Af…
Health Status of Refugees Settled in Alberta
The anger–depression connection
Six waves of data from 944 Canadian high school seniors surveyed for 25 years (age 18 to 43) were analyzed to compare three models of the temporal associations between expressed anger and depressive symptoms (anger→depression; depression→anger; anger↔depression) and a between-persons differences only model (↑anger = ↑depression). Perceived availability of social support was examined as a mediator of the anger-depression association. Random interc…
The Quality of Family Life in a Resource Community
Harvey Krahn, John Gartrell, Lyle Larson, The Quality of Family Life in a Resource Community, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer, 1981), pp. 307-324
Labour market segmentation and social mobility in a Canadian single‐industry community
Ceci est une analyse des occasions de mobilité professionnelle dans une communauté canadienne de développement de ressources à travers l'étude du statut de réalisation d'un groupe de résidents masculins de Fort McMurray en Alberta en 1979. Bien que la main d'oeuvre de cette ville, ayant une seule industrie, semble n'avoir subi qu'une mobilité légèrement plus élevée que la main d'oeuvre canadienne en général, d'importants changements socio‐économi…
Where Wives Work
Graham S. Lowe, Harvey Krahn, Where Wives Work: The Relative Effects of Situational and Attitudinal Factors, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Winter, 1985), pp. 1-22
Working Canadians
Working Canadians
Producing Personal Safety
Aggregate data from a sample of 23 Canadian cities are used to examine relationships among crime rates, police staffing rates, fear of crime, and citizens’crime prevention behaviors. Bivariate and path analyses reveal positive correlations between fear of crime and parallel production (crime prevention behaviors) and negative impacts of police force size on such behaviors. Crime rates have both direct and indirect positive effects (via fear of cr…
Education and the Labour Market
Income Inequality and Homicide Rates
Previous studies have identified but failed to explain satisfactorily the positive relationship between income inequality and homicide rates. This paper proposes an explanation based on the concept of relative deprivation, but also reviews the criminological literature in a search for other theoretically relevant variables. After assessing problems of sampling and measurement, and using a considerably larger sample than used in previous studies, …
Explanations of Unemployment in Canada
A random sample survey of residents of Edmonton, Canada reveals structural and individualistic explanations of unemployment to be equally prominent. Various indicators of social standing have little impact on these beliefs, and the unemployed differ from the employed only when the beliefs directly blame deficient work values of the unemployed. Since other studies elsewhere have found more pronounced differences by position in the stratification s…
Work and Pay
Young People's Explanations of Unemployment
Working
Computer Skills and Use among High School and University Graduates
This article examines the extent of computer training, skills, and on-the-job computer use reported by a sample of 1985 high school and university graduates in three Canadian cities. They find high levels of computer training and skills, especially among university graduates. On-the-job computer use is quite extensive, but tends to be concentrated in routine tasks such as data entry and work processing. Striking gender differences in computer ski…
High School Dropouts, Labor Market Success, and Criminal Behavior
Graduate Training in Survey Research
David R. Forde, Raymond F. Currie, Dave Odynak, Harvey Krahn, Graduate Training in Survey Research: Two Models of Student Involvement in Area Studies, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 19, No. 3, Graduate Education (Jul., 1991), pp. 379-383
Part-Time Work and Deviance among High-School Seniors
A survey of two thousand high-school seniors in three Canadian cities reveals that teenagers with part-time jobs are somewhat more likely than those who are not working to admit to alcohol use and other illegal activity. This deviant behaviour cannot be attributed to the greater discretionary income which a part-time job provides or to a reduction in parental control. Instead, working teenagers are more likely to have friends who engage in illega…
Self‐referenced’ relative deprivation and economic beliefs
Dans cette communication, les auteurs examinent un modèle théorique selon lequel le sentiment de vivre une privation relative joue un rôle important dans la traduction de l'expérience de difficultés économiques en une ‘idéologie économique’ plus à gauche sur le spectre des options politiques. Les données de l'enquête révèlent que les Albertains qui ont dû réduire leurs dépenses en raison de la récession du milieu des années 1980 avaient effective…
Unemployment and occupational aspirations
La plupart des études des aspirations professionnelles des jeunes ont analysé les rapports entre divers facteurs et les aspirations sans chercher à déterminer comment ces aspirations pourraient évoluer au fur et à mesure que les adolescents font la transition entre l'école et le marché du travail. Compte tenu de la situation sur le marché du travail au Canada, les grandes aspirations en matière de carrière de beaucoup de jeunes risquent fort d'êt…
Populism and the Rise of the Reform Party in Alberta
L'augmentation rapide du soutien populaire accordé au Reform Party of Canada est abordée du point de vue de deux théories déjà anciennes de mobilisation populiste‐la première axée sur la position de classe et la seconde privilégiant le nativisme. Les données issues d'une enquête effectuêe dans toute la province en 1991 révèlent que les agriculteurs, un segment particulier de la petite bourgeoisie, ont tendance plus que tout autre groupe à accorde…
Job-Related Education and Training among Younger Workers
This paper examines younger workers' job-relevant post-secondary education, formal on-the-job and informal on-the-job training. Using data from a panel study of 1985 Edmonton high school and university graduates, we examine the extent to which individuals who made the school-to-work transition during the late 1980s are actively participating in their own labor market upgrading. We also use employees' perceptions to document the content and useful…
Special Interests and/or New Right Economics? The Ideological Bases of Reform Party Support in Alberta in the 1993 Federal Election
La faveur croissante que connaît le Parti réformiste auprès du public est d'ordre à transformer la scène politique canadienne. Dans le présent article, les auteurs soutiennent que les conditions du succès du Parti réformiste tiennent à des facteurs globaux, dont on peut égale‐ment observer l'existence au cours des années 1980 et 1990 dans d'autres démocraties industrialisées avancées: la crise des dépenses de l'état‐providence et la renaissance d…
Boundaries of Youth
To date, the sociological study of Canadian youth culture has lacked analytical attention. In this article, attention is directed toward exploring and understanding normative, everyday gendered youth culture among a sample of 2,074 high school seniors in 3 Canadian cities. The recognition in this study of women's and men's varied youth culture activities provides an opportunity to show how both traditional male and liberal feminist models of yout…
Fractured Transitions from School to Work
This is the first Canadian study to investigate the cause and consequences of the drop-out problem from the perspectives of the participants themselves
The Persistence of Social Structure
From a rational action perspective, one might predict that the occupational aspirations and expectations of Canadian youth would have declined between the 1970s and the 1990s as the youth labour market deteriorated. Whether or not such a shift in the level of occupational goals was observed, a late modernity analysis would predict that social class, gender, and urban-rural residence would become less prominent determinants of aspirations and expe…
Educated and underemployed
Psychology (47 obras) · Sociology (43 obras) · Economics (28 obras) · Political science (27 obras) · Medicine (23 obras) · Developmental psychology (20 obras) · Social Psychology (20 obras) · Demographic economics (19 obras) · Demography (19 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (17 obras)