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Marja Aartsen

Marja Aartsen

About

Marja Aartsen is research professor, working at the department for Aging and Housing studies. She has a background in Sociology and received her PhD degree at the VU University Amsterdam. Her academic interest is on social gerontology. Marja’a research concentrates on social exclusion, social inequalities and developments in social functioning in the second half of life. She is interested in the statistical modelling of longitudinal associations between social functioning and other domains of functioning such as cognitive and mental functioning and physical health. Marja is co-leader for two international research projects focusing on social exclusion in late life: GENPATH and AMASE (which is a Romanian-Norwegian collaboration). She is also member of the research team responsible for the Norwegian Life-course, Ageing and Generations study in Norway (NorLAG) and editor of the European Journal of Ageing.

Fields of study

Academic disciplines

Sociology

Subject areas

Aging   Social inequalities   Life-evolvement   Methodology   Social network   Social exclusion

Research projects

Scientific publications

Aartsen, Marja ; Vasile, Marian; Tufa, L.D.; Dumitrescu, Diana; Radogna, Rosa M.; Wörn, Jonathan; Precupetu, Iuliana (2023). Patterns and correlates of old-age social exclusion in the Balkan states. 12 p. European Journal of Ageing. Vol. 20.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-023-00762-1

Kafková, Marcela Petrová; Fučík, Petr; Aartsen, Marja ; Hansen, Thomas; Katz, Ruth; Naim, Sigal; Pavlidis, George; Serrat, Rodrigo; Villar, Feliciano; Vidovicova, L (2023). Is There an Association Between Childhood Conditions and Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life?. Polish Sociological Review (PSR). Vol. 223.
https://doi.org/10.26412/psr223.05

Vasile, Octavian-Marian; Aartsen, Marja ; PRECUPEȚU, Iuliana; Tufa, Laura; Dumitrescu, Diana; Radogna, Rosa Maria (2023). Association Between Social Isolation and Mental Well-Being in Later Life. What is the Role of Loneliness?. Applied Research in Quality of Life.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-023-10239-z

Pavlidis, George; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Exclusion from social relations in later life: on the gendered associations of social networks with mental wellbeing. Aging & Mental Health.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2022.2116397

Orsholits, Dan; Cullati, Stéphane; Ghisletta, Paolo; Aartsen, Marja ; Oris, Michel; Studer, Matthias; Maurer, Jürgen; Perna, Laura; Gouveia, Élvio; Marques, Adilson; Peralta, Miguel; Marconcin, Priscila; Kliegel, Matthias; Ihle, Andreas (2022). How Welfare Regimes Moderate the Associations Between Cognitive Aging, Education, and Occupation. 9 p. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. Vol. 77.
https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac013

Veenstra, Marijke ; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Life-course income trajectories of men and women in Norway: Implications for self-rated health in later life. 5 p. European Journal of Public Health. Vol. 32.
https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac055

Pavlidis, George; Hansen, Thomas; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Network and solitude satisfaction as modifiers of disadvantages in the quality of life of older persons who are challenged by exclusion from social relations: a gender stratified analysis. Applied Research in Quality of Life. Vol. 17.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-022-10045-z

Le, Giang Huong ; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Understanding volunteering intensity in older volunteers. Ageing & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X22001106

Hansen, Thomas; Kafková, Marcela Petrová; Katz, Ruth; Lowenstein, Ariela; Naim, Sigal; Pavlidis, George; Villar, Feliciano; Walsh, Kieran; Aartsen, Marja (2021). Exclusion from social relations in later life: Micro-and macro-level patterns and correlations in a european perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). Vol. 18.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312418

Rapoliene, Grazina; Aartsen, Marja (2021). Lonely societies: low trust societies? Further explanations for national variations in loneliness among older Europeans. European Journal of Ageing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-021-00649-z





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