Projects
Projects FNS
Vocational training trajectories : the role of gender and sexual identities
2019 - 2023
Applicant : Lavinia Gianettoni, Edith Guilley (Départ. Instruction Publique, Canton Genève)
Other partners : D. Gross, J. Blondé, L. Parini, F. Dupenloup, J. Falomir, J.-M. Le Goff, J.-A. Gauthier, I. Valarino, F. Petrucci, M. Roca, M. Dutrevis, F. Rastoldo
NCCR LIVES IP5 : Liens familiaux et processus de vulnérabilité: propriétés relationnelles à l'échelle du réseau, des réserves relationnelles et des parcours de vie
2019 - 2022
Applicant : C. Rossier (UNIGE), L. Bernardi (UNIL)
Other partners : J.-M. Le Goff
The research group focuses on family relations as key resources as well as potential stressors in individual processes of vulnerability and resilience at different stages of the life course (childhood, adulthood, old age). The psychological, public health and epidemiological literature of the last few decades has given ample empirical evidence that interpersonal ties and social support, among which family is central, greatly improve individuals' physical and psychological well-being. This literature has also underlined that these positive effects on health and well-being are conditional on quality ties, the presence of poor-quality relations being as or even more stressful than the absence of relationship.
We explore in a more systematic fashion how family and interpersonal ties and their effect on psychological well-being are socially situated. Our general objectives are three-fold:
(1) studies considering the global effect of being embedded in configurations of family relationships on psychosocial health or well-being;
(2) understand the role of individual agency in shaping family/personal networks in order to adapt to the consequence of critical transitions (such as lone parenthood or re-partnering);
(3) structure our investigation of the long-term (and resource absorbing) constitution of relational capital, and of its depletion and intensive use in stressful life stages, we shall closely consider critical propositions associated with the reserve approach concerning accumulation, activation and thresholds of resources throughout the life course.
NCCR LIVES IP6 : Genre, mobilité et vulnérabilités
2019 - 2022
Applicant : N. Le Feuvre, E. Davoine (UNIGE)
Other partners : J.-M. Le Goff
WELLWAYS: Critical events and transitions in family and work and multidimensional wellbeing
2019 - 2021
Applicant : Laura Bernardi, Marieke Voorpostel
Other partners : Jean-Marie Le Goff
The tremendous changes in both work and family domains have had major consequences for inequality in wellbeing in contemporary European societies, raising new and pressing challenges. Family trajectories have become more diverse as marriage rates decrease while at the same time divorce rates, births outside marriage, lone parenthood, and the prevalence of complex blended families increase. Major changes in the work domain include declining employment security, growing flexibility and uncertain social mobility as well as increasing blurred boundaries between work and private life, causing these two domains to be ever more intertwined. The increasingly diverse family and work trajectories and their growing interdependence produces a large range of life course configurations whose impact on wellbeing is largely unknown. While previous research clearly demonstrates the need of jointly assessing work and family influences on wellbeing, it offers little insights into the importance of the timing and concentration of critical events for different wellbeing outcomes across social groups. WELLWAYS investigates how professional and family trajectories jointly produce inequality, by taking a dynamic approach to the life course and a multidimensional approach to wellbeing. The overall project aims are to explain a) how some individuals are at risk of accumulating disadvantages over the life course, producing lower levels of wellbeing and a reduced capacity to recover from life hazards; b) what is the role of individual resources in moderating the production of social inequalities. WELLWAYS builds on life course scholarship, which highlights the need to consider life courses as made of multiple and interdependent trajectories, and on the stress process scholarship, which theorize the negative effects of experiencing multiple hardships (stress proliferation).
Professional end of career : the Swiss stakes of a situation which is coming to a boil
2014 - 2017
Applicant : René Knüsel, Jean-Marie Le Goff, Béatrice Steiner
Becoming Parents
2010 - 2013 (47 mois)
Applicant : Jean-Marie Le Goff
Other partners : Laura Bernardi, Eric Widmer, Nadia Girardin
This panel survey was designed to study changes in the life courses, life styles, and identities at the moment of couples' transition to parenthood, depending on the concrete situation in which the couples are living, and how these changes affect the relationships between the new parents, including in the occupational field. The principal aim of the study is to better understand the social and psychological elements at work in these changes. The survey, a three-wave panel, was fielded between November 2005 and June 2009, with an initial sample of 233 couples who were interviewed for the first time in the fourth month of pregnancy, a second time at the end of the first trimester following the birth of the child, and a third time, the tenth month after childbirth (i.e., well after the end of maternity leave). Supplementary qualitative interviews were conducted with a subsample of thirty couples. The three waves of the survey have been financed by the Swiss national science foundation (SNSF). Principal applicant: René Levy; co-applicants: Annick de Ribaupierre, Claudine Sauvain-Dugerdil, Dario Spini, Eric Widmer; project director: Jean-Marie Le Goff; collaborators: Martine Amstalden, Martin Camenisch, Felix Bühlmann, Guy Elcheroth, Francesco Giudici, Valérie-Anne Ryser, Marlène Sapin, Manuel Tettamanti. Another research proposal has been accepted by the SNSF for the analyses of the data thus collected.
Others projects
Enfance Tessin
2010 - 2010 (6 mois)
grant-giving organisation : Divisione dell'azione sociale e delle famiglie (DASF) (Switzerland)
Applicant : Jean-Marie Le Goff, Francesco Giudici
Other partners : Nora Dasoki
