Journal article
Agency: An Empirical Model of an Abstract Concept
Current perspectives on aging and the life cycle, Vol.11, pp.33-67
01/01/2006
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-2608(06)11002-3
Abstract
Agency is a core life course principle that represents individual influences within structured pathways. Discussions of agency are rarely related to empirical indicators. We offer an empirical model that joins together previous treatments of agency and adds a subjective sense of one's life chances ('optimism'). Using nationally representative data, we present a series of models supporting this construct's measurement properties and utility for predicting social psychological and behavioral outcomes. Our model represents how social actors understand their own skills as well as their life chances and take both into account as they construct their life courses within constrained options. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Agency: An Empirical Model of an Abstract Concept
- Creators
- Steven HitlinGlen Elder
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Current perspectives on aging and the life cycle, Vol.11, pp.33-67
- DOI
- 10.1016/S1040-2608(06)11002-3
- ISSN
- 1040-2608
- eISSN
- 1879-6974
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2006
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984305981002771
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