Fleur Thomése
Biographic Data
| ID | 120549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fleur Thomése |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fleur |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomése |
| SIGNATURE | THOMÉSE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7164-6242 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Healthy Lifestyle in Old Age and Prospective Change in Four Domains of Functioning
Objective: The aim of this article is to study the associations between healthy lifestyle in old age and decline in physical, psychological, cognitive, and social functioning. Method: A population-based sample of 3,107 Dutch men and women aged 55 and 85 years (1992/1993; Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam) was used with five 3-yeary follow-up examinations. Lifestyle score, based on smoking status, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and body …
Participation narratives of Third Age adults: Their activities, motivations and expectations regarding civil society organisations
Redactioneel: Decentralisatie en lokale ongelijkheid in participatie
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Maakt lokaler thuiszorg zorg (on)gelijker: Sociaaleconomische ongelijkheid in de toegang tot huishoudelijke zorg binnen Nederlandse gemeenten voor en na de invoering van de WMO in 2007
Is more local home care more (un)equal? Socioeconomic inequalities in the access to home care in Dutch municipalities before and after the implementation of the Social Support Act (WMO) in 2007 The partial decentralisation of long-term care in the Netherlands is accompanied by cutbacks, reduction of individual social rights, and increasing dependency on self-, informal and private care. Are municipalities able to ensure a better distribution of c…
Nanosociologie
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Testing Evolutionary Theories of Discriminative Grandparental Investment
This study tests two evolutionary hypotheses on grandparental investments differentiated by the child's sex: the paternity uncertainty hypothesis and the Trivers–Willard hypothesis. Data are from two culturally different countries: the Dutch Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam ( n =2375) and the Chinese Anhui Survey ( n =4026). In the Netherlands, grandparental investments are biased towards daughters' children, which is in accordance with the pat…
Oud nieuws
Onlangs stuitte ik op Mark Granovetters artikel The problem of embeddedness, dat in 1985 verscheen in The American Journal of Sociology. Voor sociaal wetenschappers is dat probleem er al lang niet meer. Het behoort tot de leerstellingen van de sociale wetenschappen dat al het handelen is ingebed in sociale relaties. Zie nou dit nummer van Mens & Maatschappij: twee artikelen gaan over de rol van familierelaties in belangrijke sociale processen. Ee…
Advancing social inclusion in the neighbourhood for people with an intellectual disability: An exploration of the literature
The shift from segregated facilities to community settings did not automatically lead to social inclusion for people with an intellectual disability (ID). Policies are increasingly decentralized but little is known about the factors that are important to realize social inclusion in the neighbourhood. This literature study identifies five domains barriers and facilitators for social inclusion in the neighbourhood: individual characteristics, infor…
Homeownership and Long-Term Care
We investigate the relationship between homeownership and institutionalization using longitudinal data from a Dutch community sample (N = 2372) collected between 1992 and 2005, and find a negative effect of housing tenure on the probability of moving to a nursing home between two subsequent waves. Our discrete time duration model is able to deal with time-varying covariates like health and is flexible with respect to time effects. We have detaile…
Child Care and Child Births: The Role of Grandparents in the Netherlands
This study explored the involvement of grandparents in the care for young children and its effect on subsequent child births in dual-earner families, using data on 898 Dutch men and women aged 18-49 from the Netherlands' Kinship Panel Study. Three theoretical perspectives were used to develop hypotheses: (a) needs and opportunities, (b) normative preferences, and (c) gendered involvement of grandparents. The findings showed that needs and opportu…
Van uitstel komt afstel? - Grenzen aan de huwelijkstiming voor Nederlandse vrouwen in een langdurige periode van crisis
Too late for marriage? Normative constraints on marriage timing in a disruptive period in The Netherlands . Using marriage timing and marriage market theories, three hypotheses have been formulated linking cultural norms to the timing of first marriage of Dutch men and women during and after the economic Depression and the Second World War. Event history analyses on retrospective survey data among 4,494 Dutch men and women born between 1903 and 1…
Low fertility in contemporary humans and the mate value of their children: Sex-specific effects on social status indicators
How Grandparents Matter: Support for the Cooperative Breeding Hypothesis in a Contemporary Dutch Population
Low birth rates in developed societies reflect women's difficulties in combining work and motherhood. While demographic research has focused on the role of formal childcare in easing this dilemma, evolutionary theory points to the importance of kin. The cooperative breeding hypothesis states that the wider kin group has facilitated women's reproduction during our evolutionary history. This mechanism has been demonstrated in pre-industrial societi…
Changes in older Dutch adults’ role networks after moving
Using the convoy model (R. L. Kahn & T. C. Antonucci, 1980), this study examined the differential impact of relocation, depending on the distance moved, on the size of 3 types of role networks. A total of 890 Dutch nonmovers and 445 movers (aged 55–86 years) were selected from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam. Results of analyses of variance showed that the neighbor networks changed most after relocation. Long‐distance movers discontinued t…
Continuation of exchange with neighbors in later life: The importance of the neighborhood context
Relationships with neighbors are considered exchange relationships, in which the continuation of exchanges depends on balance in previous exchanges. Our study tested whether this is the case. An exchange relationship implies that neighbor relationships are isolated units. We expected, however, that neighborhood integration also affects the continuation of exchange among neighbors. Data were from a longitudinal study among 1,692 independently livi…
Neighbouring networks and environmental dependency. Differential effects of neighbourhood characteristics on the relative size and composition of neighbouring networks of older adults in The Netherlan…
The effects of four social-structural neighbourhood characteristics on the relative size and the composition of neighbouring networks are tested in a sample of 3,504 older adults born between 1908 and 1937 and living in three different regions in the Netherlands. Interactions with individual income and ADL capacity are included in multilevel regression analyses, to test effects of older adults' environmental dependency. Population density and res…
Communes of elderly people: Between independence and colonization
How Grandparents Matter: Support for the Cooperative Breeding Hypothesis in a Contemporary Dutch Population
Low birth rates in developed societies reflect women's difficulties in combining work and motherhood. While demographic research has focused on the role of formal childcare in easing this dilemma, evolutionary theory points to the importance of kin. The cooperative breeding hypothesis states that the wider kin group has facilitated women's reproduction during our evolutionary history. This mechanism has been demonstrated in pre-industrial societi…
Child Care and Child Births: The Role of Grandparents in the Netherlands
This study explored the involvement of grandparents in the care for young children and its effect on subsequent child births in dual-earner families, using data on 898 Dutch men and women aged 18-49 from the Netherlands' Kinship Panel Study. Three theoretical perspectives were used to develop hypotheses: (a) needs and opportunities, (b) normative preferences, and (c) gendered involvement of grandparents. The findings showed that needs and opportu…
Advancing social inclusion in the neighbourhood for people with an intellectual disability: An exploration of the literature
The shift from segregated facilities to community settings did not automatically lead to social inclusion for people with an intellectual disability (ID). Policies are increasingly decentralized but little is known about the factors that are important to realize social inclusion in the neighbourhood. This literature study identifies five domains barriers and facilitators for social inclusion in the neighbourhood: individual characteristics, infor…
Neighbouring networks and environmental dependency. Differential effects of neighbourhood characteristics on the relative size and composition of neighbouring networks of older adults in The Netherlan…
The effects of four social-structural neighbourhood characteristics on the relative size and the composition of neighbouring networks are tested in a sample of 3,504 older adults born between 1908 and 1937 and living in three different regions in the Netherlands. Interactions with individual income and ADL capacity are included in multilevel regression analyses, to test effects of older adults' environmental dependency. Population density and res…
A Healthy Lifestyle in Old Age and Prospective Change in Four Domains of Functioning
Objective: The aim of this article is to study the associations between healthy lifestyle in old age and decline in physical, psychological, cognitive, and social functioning. Method: A population-based sample of 3,107 Dutch men and women aged 55 and 85 years (1992/1993; Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam) was used with five 3-yeary follow-up examinations. Lifestyle score, based on smoking status, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and body …
Homeownership and Long-Term Care
We investigate the relationship between homeownership and institutionalization using longitudinal data from a Dutch community sample (N = 2372) collected between 1992 and 2005, and find a negative effect of housing tenure on the probability of moving to a nursing home between two subsequent waves. Our discrete time duration model is able to deal with time-varying covariates like health and is flexible with respect to time effects. We have detaile…
Communes of elderly people: Between independence and colonization
Communes of elderly people: Between independence and colonization
Neighbouring networks and environmental dependency. Differential effects of neighbourhood characteristics on the relative size and composition of neighbouring networks of older adults in The Netherlan…
The effects of four social-structural neighbourhood characteristics on the relative size and the composition of neighbouring networks are tested in a sample of 3,504 older adults born between 1908 and 1937 and living in three different regions in the Netherlands. Interactions with individual income and ADL capacity are included in multilevel regression analyses, to test effects of older adults' environmental dependency. Population density and res…
Continuation of exchange with neighbors in later life: The importance of the neighborhood context
Relationships with neighbors are considered exchange relationships, in which the continuation of exchanges depends on balance in previous exchanges. Our study tested whether this is the case. An exchange relationship implies that neighbor relationships are isolated units. We expected, however, that neighborhood integration also affects the continuation of exchange among neighbors. Data were from a longitudinal study among 1,692 independently livi…
Changes in older Dutch adults’ role networks after moving
Using the convoy model (R. L. Kahn & T. C. Antonucci, 1980), this study examined the differential impact of relocation, depending on the distance moved, on the size of 3 types of role networks. A total of 890 Dutch nonmovers and 445 movers (aged 55–86 years) were selected from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam. Results of analyses of variance showed that the neighbor networks changed most after relocation. Long‐distance movers discontinued t…
Low fertility in contemporary humans and the mate value of their children: Sex-specific effects on social status indicators
How Grandparents Matter: Support for the Cooperative Breeding Hypothesis in a Contemporary Dutch Population
Low birth rates in developed societies reflect women's difficulties in combining work and motherhood. While demographic research has focused on the role of formal childcare in easing this dilemma, evolutionary theory points to the importance of kin. The cooperative breeding hypothesis states that the wider kin group has facilitated women's reproduction during our evolutionary history. This mechanism has been demonstrated in pre-industrial societi…
Van uitstel komt afstel? - Grenzen aan de huwelijkstiming voor Nederlandse vrouwen in een langdurige periode van crisis
Too late for marriage? Normative constraints on marriage timing in a disruptive period in The Netherlands . Using marriage timing and marriage market theories, three hypotheses have been formulated linking cultural norms to the timing of first marriage of Dutch men and women during and after the economic Depression and the Second World War. Event history analyses on retrospective survey data among 4,494 Dutch men and women born between 1903 and 1…
Testing Evolutionary Theories of Discriminative Grandparental Investment
This study tests two evolutionary hypotheses on grandparental investments differentiated by the child's sex: the paternity uncertainty hypothesis and the Trivers–Willard hypothesis. Data are from two culturally different countries: the Dutch Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam ( n =2375) and the Chinese Anhui Survey ( n =4026). In the Netherlands, grandparental investments are biased towards daughters' children, which is in accordance with the pat…
Oud nieuws
Onlangs stuitte ik op Mark Granovetters artikel The problem of embeddedness, dat in 1985 verscheen in The American Journal of Sociology. Voor sociaal wetenschappers is dat probleem er al lang niet meer. Het behoort tot de leerstellingen van de sociale wetenschappen dat al het handelen is ingebed in sociale relaties. Zie nou dit nummer van Mens & Maatschappij: twee artikelen gaan over de rol van familierelaties in belangrijke sociale processen. Ee…
Advancing social inclusion in the neighbourhood for people with an intellectual disability: An exploration of the literature
The shift from segregated facilities to community settings did not automatically lead to social inclusion for people with an intellectual disability (ID). Policies are increasingly decentralized but little is known about the factors that are important to realize social inclusion in the neighbourhood. This literature study identifies five domains barriers and facilitators for social inclusion in the neighbourhood: individual characteristics, infor…
Homeownership and Long-Term Care
We investigate the relationship between homeownership and institutionalization using longitudinal data from a Dutch community sample (N = 2372) collected between 1992 and 2005, and find a negative effect of housing tenure on the probability of moving to a nursing home between two subsequent waves. Our discrete time duration model is able to deal with time-varying covariates like health and is flexible with respect to time effects. We have detaile…
Child Care and Child Births: The Role of Grandparents in the Netherlands
This study explored the involvement of grandparents in the care for young children and its effect on subsequent child births in dual-earner families, using data on 898 Dutch men and women aged 18-49 from the Netherlands' Kinship Panel Study. Three theoretical perspectives were used to develop hypotheses: (a) needs and opportunities, (b) normative preferences, and (c) gendered involvement of grandparents. The findings showed that needs and opportu…
Nanosociologie
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Redactioneel: Decentralisatie en lokale ongelijkheid in participatie
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Maakt lokaler thuiszorg zorg (on)gelijker: Sociaaleconomische ongelijkheid in de toegang tot huishoudelijke zorg binnen Nederlandse gemeenten voor en na de invoering van de WMO in 2007
Is more local home care more (un)equal? Socioeconomic inequalities in the access to home care in Dutch municipalities before and after the implementation of the Social Support Act (WMO) in 2007 The partial decentralisation of long-term care in the Netherlands is accompanied by cutbacks, reduction of individual social rights, and increasing dependency on self-, informal and private care. Are municipalities able to ensure a better distribution of c…
A Healthy Lifestyle in Old Age and Prospective Change in Four Domains of Functioning
Objective: The aim of this article is to study the associations between healthy lifestyle in old age and decline in physical, psychological, cognitive, and social functioning. Method: A population-based sample of 3,107 Dutch men and women aged 55 and 85 years (1992/1993; Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam) was used with five 3-yeary follow-up examinations. Lifestyle score, based on smoking status, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and body …
Participation narratives of Third Age adults: Their activities, motivations and expectations regarding civil society organisations
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Demography (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)