M Tosi
Biographic Data
| ID | 10076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Tosi |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Tosi |
| SIGNATURE | TOSI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1423-1585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 174 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Kinship Obligations in Nuclear and Extended Family Networks in Italy: A Vignette Study
Objective This study examines kinship obligations across nuclear and extended family ties, considering variations by support type, gender, and attitudinal moderators regarding the importance attached to emotional closeness, past conflict, reciprocity, and societal judgment. Background Existing research is predominantly concentrated on support exchanges and obligations in parent–child relationships. Therefore, it remains unknown to what extent kin…
Kinlessness’, parent–child contact and subjective wellbeing among middle-aged and older adults in Europe
As fertility decreases and singlehood increases, research is growing on the spread of ‘kinlessness’ – commonly defined as having neither a partner nor children – and its impact on the wellbeing of middle-aged and older adults. However, the beneficial impact of having partners and children may depend on the quality of those relationships. This study contributes to this research by integrating family structure types with different forms of parent–c…
Horizontal or Vertical? A Tale of Geographical Proximity in Italian Kinship Networks
The increasing predominance of the “beanpole” family, a structure characterized by multiple ties across generations but fewer within one generation, has led most scholars to focus on parent‐child (and grandparent‐grandchild) relationships, overlooking the relevance of the broader kinship network and its geographical spread. The geographical proximity between kin reveals patterns of potential support networks and is associated with subnational het…
Kinlessness,” Social Connectedness, and Subjective Well-Being in Europe
Objectives This study examines the association between family structure and subjective well-being by focusing on the moderating effects of social connectedness across genders and country contexts. We compare the well-being of older adults across 4 family types: those with both a partner and children, those with a partner but not children, those with children but no partner, and those without a partner and children (“kinless”). Methods We use data…
Employment Trajectories in Early Adulthood and Later Fertility
The association between employment and fertility is typically studied using single work episodes and transitions between parities, potentially overlooking the complexity of individual trajectories. In this study we examine whether the type of employment trajectories experienced in early adulthood – especially those related to a greater economic vulnerability – is associated with fertility in Italy. Specifically, we focus on cumulated fertility at…
Gender inequality in intergenerational contact after parental separation in the digital era
ObjectiveThe goal of this brief report is to analyze parent-adult child contact frequency in intact and non-intact families by focusing on parent and child gender and the type of contact.BackgroundParental separation increases gender differences in parent-child relationships, with separated fathers having less frequent contact with their adult children compared to separated mothers. We investigate whether the father-mother gap in post-separation …
Health anxiety and oppressive support: Their impact on decisions for non-urgent use of the emergency department of obstetrics and gynecology
The high number of non-urgent visits to the emergency departments of obstetrics and gynecology (EDOG) is receiving increasing attention from researchers and public health professionals. The decision to access the EDOG is the result of a decision-making process based on three phases, from the problem recognition to the intention to seek medical care, and the decision to visit the EDOG. Each stage may depend on different psychological and social fa…
Work–family lifecourses and later-life health in the United Kingdom
Socio-economic inequalities in physical and mental health persist at older ages and previous studies have shown that partnership and parenthood histories are also associated with differentials in later-life health. These domains of adult life interact, and both may be influenced by earlier life circumstances, indicating a need for a holistic approach to understanding lifecourse influences on health at older ages. In this paper, we identify classe…
Mental Health Around the Transition to First Birth: Does Medically Assisted Reproduction Matter
Previous research has shown that childbearing is associated with short-term improvements in women's subjective well-being but that these effects depend on the timing and quantum of the birth as well as on the parents' education and socioeconomic status. These studies did not address whether and, if so, how this effect varies according to the mode of conception. This represents an important knowledge gap, given that conceptions through medically a…
Influence of post-migration living difficulties on post-traumatic symptoms in Chinese asylum seekers resettled in Italy
Background: Little is known about mental health and resettlement difficulties of Chinese asylum seekers fleeing China due to religious persecutions. Aim: This study explores main post-migration living difficulties (PMLD) in this population, with a focus on their role in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Methods: A total of 67 patients (95.52% women, mean age 34.75 ± 7.63) were included in the study. The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) was…
The More the Merrier? The Causal Effect of High Fertility on Later-Life Loneliness in Eastern Europe
Levels of later-life loneliness are high in Eastern Europe. We assess whether having more children is protective against later-life loneliness for Eastern-European mothers and fathers. Drawing on Generations and Gender Surveys data of 25,479 parents aged 50–80 from eight Eastern-European countries, we adopt an instrumental approach exploiting parents’ preference for mixed-sex offspring to estimate the causal effect of having additional children o…
Gray divorce and mental health in the United Kingdom
Boomerang Kids and Parents' Well-Being: Adaptation, Stressors, and Social Norms
Previous research has shown that living with an adult child affects the well-being of parents. However, little is known about parental adaptation to changes in living arrangements or about concomitant stressors that may moderate the effect of adult children returning to the parental home. Drawing on data from eight waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-2017), I use distributed fixed effects linear regression models to analyse changes…
Does Children’s Union Dissolution Hurt Elderly Parents? Linked Lives, Divorce and Mental Health in Europe
Previous research has shown that parent's union dissolution has negative consequences for individuals' well-being, parent-child relationships and children's outcomes. However, less attention has been devoted to the effects in the opposite direction, i.e. how children's divorce affects parents' well-being. We adopted a cross-country, longitudinal and multigenerational perspective to analyse whether children's marital break-up is associated with ch…
The fourth commandment effect’: Church attendance and intergenerational support in late parent–child relationships
We examine whether church attendance is related to intergenerational support from children to older parents in Italy. First, we focus on the role of church attendance on different forms of assistance, by distinguishing between practical support and personal assistance. Second, we attempt to disentangle the role of church attendance from that of traditionalism. We analyse data from the ISTAT survey ‘Family and Social Subject’ 2003 using multinomia…
Parents’ housing careers and support for adult children across Europe
Housing careers have important consequences for individuals’ well-being. The present study focuses on the role of parents’ housing careers in affecting the way and extent to which they provide economic support to their adult children. By adopting a family life course perspective, it shows that while housing tenure has relatively little effect on parents’ transfer behaviour, mobility between different tenures can elicit or suppress intergeneration…
Returns home by children and changes in parents’ well-being in Europe
Co-resident adult children may be a source of emotional and instrumental support for older parents, but also a source of conflict and stress. Results from previous research are far from conclusive and indicate that intergenerational co-residence may have both negative and positive effects on parents' depressive symptoms and physical health. We analyse longitudinal data from four waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (2007…
Handbook of the Life Course, Volume II
Age norms, family relationships, and home leaving in Italy
Previous research has shown that social norms have an influence on young adultsâ life course transitions. However, few studies have explicitly and directly tested the idea that perceived age norms affect the decision to leave the parental home
Leaving-home transition and later parent–child relationships: Proximity and contact in Italy
Previous research points out that early life-course transitions affect subsequent parent–child relationships. This study examines the association between the leaving-home transition and later parent–child relations in Italy, by taking into account different timings and reasons to move out of the parental home. Using pooled data from two waves (2003 and 2009) of the Family and Social Subject Survey, Ordered Logistic regression models were adopted …
Nest-leaving, childhood family climate and later parent-child contact in Sweden
In this paper, we ask whether the time spent in the parental home promotes the frequency of contacts between generations, and whether violating social norms regarding the socially accepted time for leaving home is related to less frequent interactions with parents in later life. We also devote particular attention to union dissolution and family conflict during childhood and adolescence as possible mechanisms behind this relationship. Employing m…
U-series and radiocarbon dates on mollusc shells from the uppermost layer of the archaeological site of KHB-1, Ra's al Khabbah, Oman
Settlement structures and cemetery at Wadi Shab‐GAS1, Sultanate of Oman: Report on the 2002 and 2003 field seasons
Many chronological and cultural facets of Early and Middle Holocene Prehistoric Oman are still unclear. Archaeological excavations of settlements and cemeteries are adding new data to the reconstruction of a chronological and cultural framework. Wadi Shab‐GAS1 is a Middle Holocene site found at the beginning of the 1980s and later destroyed by urbanisation. It is located in a rich environmental niche, on a cliff facing the sea and near a permanen…
The Emerging Picture of Prehistoric Arabia
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Emerging Picture of Prehistoric Arabia
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Returns home by children and changes in parents’ well-being in Europe
Co-resident adult children may be a source of emotional and instrumental support for older parents, but also a source of conflict and stress. Results from previous research are far from conclusive and indicate that intergenerational co-residence may have both negative and positive effects on parents' depressive symptoms and physical health. We analyse longitudinal data from four waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (2007…
Gray divorce and mental health in the United Kingdom
Nest-leaving, childhood family climate and later parent-child contact in Sweden
In this paper, we ask whether the time spent in the parental home promotes the frequency of contacts between generations, and whether violating social norms regarding the socially accepted time for leaving home is related to less frequent interactions with parents in later life. We also devote particular attention to union dissolution and family conflict during childhood and adolescence as possible mechanisms behind this relationship. Employing m…
Parents’ housing careers and support for adult children across Europe
Housing careers have important consequences for individuals’ well-being. The present study focuses on the role of parents’ housing careers in affecting the way and extent to which they provide economic support to their adult children. By adopting a family life course perspective, it shows that while housing tenure has relatively little effect on parents’ transfer behaviour, mobility between different tenures can elicit or suppress intergeneration…
Leaving-home transition and later parent–child relationships: Proximity and contact in Italy
Previous research points out that early life-course transitions affect subsequent parent–child relationships. This study examines the association between the leaving-home transition and later parent–child relations in Italy, by taking into account different timings and reasons to move out of the parental home. Using pooled data from two waves (2003 and 2009) of the Family and Social Subject Survey, Ordered Logistic regression models were adopted …
U-series and radiocarbon dates on mollusc shells from the uppermost layer of the archaeological site of KHB-1, Ra's al Khabbah, Oman
Work–family lifecourses and later-life health in the United Kingdom
Socio-economic inequalities in physical and mental health persist at older ages and previous studies have shown that partnership and parenthood histories are also associated with differentials in later-life health. These domains of adult life interact, and both may be influenced by earlier life circumstances, indicating a need for a holistic approach to understanding lifecourse influences on health at older ages. In this paper, we identify classe…
Age norms, family relationships, and home leaving in Italy
Previous research has shown that social norms have an influence on young adultsâ life course transitions. However, few studies have explicitly and directly tested the idea that perceived age norms affect the decision to leave the parental home
Settlement structures and cemetery at Wadi Shab‐GAS1, Sultanate of Oman: Report on the 2002 and 2003 field seasons
Many chronological and cultural facets of Early and Middle Holocene Prehistoric Oman are still unclear. Archaeological excavations of settlements and cemeteries are adding new data to the reconstruction of a chronological and cultural framework. Wadi Shab‐GAS1 is a Middle Holocene site found at the beginning of the 1980s and later destroyed by urbanisation. It is located in a rich environmental niche, on a cliff facing the sea and near a permanen…
Does Children’s Union Dissolution Hurt Elderly Parents? Linked Lives, Divorce and Mental Health in Europe
Previous research has shown that parent's union dissolution has negative consequences for individuals' well-being, parent-child relationships and children's outcomes. However, less attention has been devoted to the effects in the opposite direction, i.e. how children's divorce affects parents' well-being. We adopted a cross-country, longitudinal and multigenerational perspective to analyse whether children's marital break-up is associated with ch…
Mental Health Around the Transition to First Birth: Does Medically Assisted Reproduction Matter
Previous research has shown that childbearing is associated with short-term improvements in women's subjective well-being but that these effects depend on the timing and quantum of the birth as well as on the parents' education and socioeconomic status. These studies did not address whether and, if so, how this effect varies according to the mode of conception. This represents an important knowledge gap, given that conceptions through medically a…
Gender inequality in intergenerational contact after parental separation in the digital era
ObjectiveThe goal of this brief report is to analyze parent-adult child contact frequency in intact and non-intact families by focusing on parent and child gender and the type of contact.BackgroundParental separation increases gender differences in parent-child relationships, with separated fathers having less frequent contact with their adult children compared to separated mothers. We investigate whether the father-mother gap in post-separation …
The fourth commandment effect’: Church attendance and intergenerational support in late parent–child relationships
We examine whether church attendance is related to intergenerational support from children to older parents in Italy. First, we focus on the role of church attendance on different forms of assistance, by distinguishing between practical support and personal assistance. Second, we attempt to disentangle the role of church attendance from that of traditionalism. We analyse data from the ISTAT survey ‘Family and Social Subject’ 2003 using multinomia…
Kinlessness,” Social Connectedness, and Subjective Well-Being in Europe
Objectives This study examines the association between family structure and subjective well-being by focusing on the moderating effects of social connectedness across genders and country contexts. We compare the well-being of older adults across 4 family types: those with both a partner and children, those with a partner but not children, those with children but no partner, and those without a partner and children (“kinless”). Methods We use data…
Handbook of the Life Course, Volume II
The More the Merrier? The Causal Effect of High Fertility on Later-Life Loneliness in Eastern Europe
Levels of later-life loneliness are high in Eastern Europe. We assess whether having more children is protective against later-life loneliness for Eastern-European mothers and fathers. Drawing on Generations and Gender Surveys data of 25,479 parents aged 50–80 from eight Eastern-European countries, we adopt an instrumental approach exploiting parents’ preference for mixed-sex offspring to estimate the causal effect of having additional children o…
Boomerang Kids and Parents' Well-Being: Adaptation, Stressors, and Social Norms
Previous research has shown that living with an adult child affects the well-being of parents. However, little is known about parental adaptation to changes in living arrangements or about concomitant stressors that may moderate the effect of adult children returning to the parental home. Drawing on data from eight waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-2017), I use distributed fixed effects linear regression models to analyse changes…
The Emerging Picture of Prehistoric Arabia
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Settlement structures and cemetery at Wadi Shab‐GAS1, Sultanate of Oman: Report on the 2002 and 2003 field seasons
Many chronological and cultural facets of Early and Middle Holocene Prehistoric Oman are still unclear. Archaeological excavations of settlements and cemeteries are adding new data to the reconstruction of a chronological and cultural framework. Wadi Shab‐GAS1 is a Middle Holocene site found at the beginning of the 1980s and later destroyed by urbanisation. It is located in a rich environmental niche, on a cliff facing the sea and near a permanen…
U-series and radiocarbon dates on mollusc shells from the uppermost layer of the archaeological site of KHB-1, Ra's al Khabbah, Oman
Leaving-home transition and later parent–child relationships: Proximity and contact in Italy
Previous research points out that early life-course transitions affect subsequent parent–child relationships. This study examines the association between the leaving-home transition and later parent–child relations in Italy, by taking into account different timings and reasons to move out of the parental home. Using pooled data from two waves (2003 and 2009) of the Family and Social Subject Survey, Ordered Logistic regression models were adopted …
Nest-leaving, childhood family climate and later parent-child contact in Sweden
In this paper, we ask whether the time spent in the parental home promotes the frequency of contacts between generations, and whether violating social norms regarding the socially accepted time for leaving home is related to less frequent interactions with parents in later life. We also devote particular attention to union dissolution and family conflict during childhood and adolescence as possible mechanisms behind this relationship. Employing m…
Handbook of the Life Course, Volume II
Age norms, family relationships, and home leaving in Italy
Previous research has shown that social norms have an influence on young adultsâ life course transitions. However, few studies have explicitly and directly tested the idea that perceived age norms affect the decision to leave the parental home
The fourth commandment effect’: Church attendance and intergenerational support in late parent–child relationships
We examine whether church attendance is related to intergenerational support from children to older parents in Italy. First, we focus on the role of church attendance on different forms of assistance, by distinguishing between practical support and personal assistance. Second, we attempt to disentangle the role of church attendance from that of traditionalism. We analyse data from the ISTAT survey ‘Family and Social Subject’ 2003 using multinomia…
Parents’ housing careers and support for adult children across Europe
Housing careers have important consequences for individuals’ well-being. The present study focuses on the role of parents’ housing careers in affecting the way and extent to which they provide economic support to their adult children. By adopting a family life course perspective, it shows that while housing tenure has relatively little effect on parents’ transfer behaviour, mobility between different tenures can elicit or suppress intergeneration…
Returns home by children and changes in parents’ well-being in Europe
Co-resident adult children may be a source of emotional and instrumental support for older parents, but also a source of conflict and stress. Results from previous research are far from conclusive and indicate that intergenerational co-residence may have both negative and positive effects on parents' depressive symptoms and physical health. We analyse longitudinal data from four waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (2007…
Does Children’s Union Dissolution Hurt Elderly Parents? Linked Lives, Divorce and Mental Health in Europe
Previous research has shown that parent's union dissolution has negative consequences for individuals' well-being, parent-child relationships and children's outcomes. However, less attention has been devoted to the effects in the opposite direction, i.e. how children's divorce affects parents' well-being. We adopted a cross-country, longitudinal and multigenerational perspective to analyse whether children's marital break-up is associated with ch…
Influence of post-migration living difficulties on post-traumatic symptoms in Chinese asylum seekers resettled in Italy
Background: Little is known about mental health and resettlement difficulties of Chinese asylum seekers fleeing China due to religious persecutions. Aim: This study explores main post-migration living difficulties (PMLD) in this population, with a focus on their role in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Methods: A total of 67 patients (95.52% women, mean age 34.75 ± 7.63) were included in the study. The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) was…
The More the Merrier? The Causal Effect of High Fertility on Later-Life Loneliness in Eastern Europe
Levels of later-life loneliness are high in Eastern Europe. We assess whether having more children is protective against later-life loneliness for Eastern-European mothers and fathers. Drawing on Generations and Gender Surveys data of 25,479 parents aged 50–80 from eight Eastern-European countries, we adopt an instrumental approach exploiting parents’ preference for mixed-sex offspring to estimate the causal effect of having additional children o…
Gray divorce and mental health in the United Kingdom
Boomerang Kids and Parents' Well-Being: Adaptation, Stressors, and Social Norms
Previous research has shown that living with an adult child affects the well-being of parents. However, little is known about parental adaptation to changes in living arrangements or about concomitant stressors that may moderate the effect of adult children returning to the parental home. Drawing on data from eight waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-2017), I use distributed fixed effects linear regression models to analyse changes…
Work–family lifecourses and later-life health in the United Kingdom
Socio-economic inequalities in physical and mental health persist at older ages and previous studies have shown that partnership and parenthood histories are also associated with differentials in later-life health. These domains of adult life interact, and both may be influenced by earlier life circumstances, indicating a need for a holistic approach to understanding lifecourse influences on health at older ages. In this paper, we identify classe…
Mental Health Around the Transition to First Birth: Does Medically Assisted Reproduction Matter
Previous research has shown that childbearing is associated with short-term improvements in women's subjective well-being but that these effects depend on the timing and quantum of the birth as well as on the parents' education and socioeconomic status. These studies did not address whether and, if so, how this effect varies according to the mode of conception. This represents an important knowledge gap, given that conceptions through medically a…
Health anxiety and oppressive support: Their impact on decisions for non-urgent use of the emergency department of obstetrics and gynecology
The high number of non-urgent visits to the emergency departments of obstetrics and gynecology (EDOG) is receiving increasing attention from researchers and public health professionals. The decision to access the EDOG is the result of a decision-making process based on three phases, from the problem recognition to the intention to seek medical care, and the decision to visit the EDOG. Each stage may depend on different psychological and social fa…
Horizontal or Vertical? A Tale of Geographical Proximity in Italian Kinship Networks
The increasing predominance of the “beanpole” family, a structure characterized by multiple ties across generations but fewer within one generation, has led most scholars to focus on parent‐child (and grandparent‐grandchild) relationships, overlooking the relevance of the broader kinship network and its geographical spread. The geographical proximity between kin reveals patterns of potential support networks and is associated with subnational het…
Kinlessness,” Social Connectedness, and Subjective Well-Being in Europe
Objectives This study examines the association between family structure and subjective well-being by focusing on the moderating effects of social connectedness across genders and country contexts. We compare the well-being of older adults across 4 family types: those with both a partner and children, those with a partner but not children, those with children but no partner, and those without a partner and children (“kinless”). Methods We use data…
Employment Trajectories in Early Adulthood and Later Fertility
The association between employment and fertility is typically studied using single work episodes and transitions between parities, potentially overlooking the complexity of individual trajectories. In this study we examine whether the type of employment trajectories experienced in early adulthood – especially those related to a greater economic vulnerability – is associated with fertility in Italy. Specifically, we focus on cumulated fertility at…
Gender inequality in intergenerational contact after parental separation in the digital era
ObjectiveThe goal of this brief report is to analyze parent-adult child contact frequency in intact and non-intact families by focusing on parent and child gender and the type of contact.BackgroundParental separation increases gender differences in parent-child relationships, with separated fathers having less frequent contact with their adult children compared to separated mothers. We investigate whether the father-mother gap in post-separation …
Kinship Obligations in Nuclear and Extended Family Networks in Italy: A Vignette Study
Objective This study examines kinship obligations across nuclear and extended family ties, considering variations by support type, gender, and attitudinal moderators regarding the importance attached to emotional closeness, past conflict, reciprocity, and societal judgment. Background Existing research is predominantly concentrated on support exchanges and obligations in parent–child relationships. Therefore, it remains unknown to what extent kin…
Kinlessness’, parent–child contact and subjective wellbeing among middle-aged and older adults in Europe
As fertility decreases and singlehood increases, research is growing on the spread of ‘kinlessness’ – commonly defined as having neither a partner nor children – and its impact on the wellbeing of middle-aged and older adults. However, the beneficial impact of having partners and children may depend on the quality of those relationships. This study contributes to this research by integrating family structure types with different forms of parent–c…
Psychology (17 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (16 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Demography (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)