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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2004 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Pearl A. Dykstra is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands and primarily works within the social sciences. Their research contributions span multiple subfields including health, sociology and political science, general health professions, social psychology, and economics and econometrics.

Their recent scholarly output includes articles addressing various aspects of health disparities and intergenerational family dynamics, often with a focus on aging populations and social well-being. Key recent publications are:

  • Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens, 2020, Advances in Life Course Research
  • The COVID-19 pandemic and changes in the level of contact between older parents and their non-coresident children: A European study, 2021, Journal of Family Research
  • Marital-history differences in increased loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: A European study among older adults living alone, 2023, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
  • The European Health Data Space can be a boost for research beyond borders, 2024, Nature Medicine
  • Safe Linkage of Cohort and Population-Based Register Data in a Genomewide Association Study on Health Care Expenditure, 2021, Twin Research and Human Genetics

Dykstra's main research themes include health disparities and outcomes, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, migration, aging, and tourism studies, genetic associations and epidemiology, chronic disease management strategies, and employment and welfare studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dykstra are:

  • Tom Emery
  • Lucas van der Meer
  • Jorik Vergauwen
  • Katrijn Delaruelle
  • Piet Bracke

The scholar's work frequently appears in publication venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mens & Maatschappij, Advances in Life Course Research, Nature Medicine, and Journal of Family Research. Among these, Zenodo hosts the largest number of their publications.

Pearl A. Dykstra has been recognized with membership in prestigious academic bodies including the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004 and the Academia Europaea since 2016.

Best Publications

  • Older adult loneliness: myths and realities

    Pearl A. Dykstra

  • Loneliness and Social Isolation

    Jenny de Jong Gierveld;Theo van Tilburg;Pearl A. Dykstra

  • Changes in Older Adult Loneliness : Results From a Seven-Year Longitudinal Study

    Pearl A. Dykstra;Theo G. van Tilburg;Jenny de Jong Gierveld

  • Cross-National Differences in Older Adult Loneliness

    Tineke Fokkema;Jenny De Jong Gierveld;Pearl A Dykstra

  • Social and Emotional Loneliness Among Divorced and Married Men and Women: Comparing the Deficit and Cognitive Perspectives

    Pearl A. Dykstra;Tineke Fokkema

  • "Gender and Marital-History Differences in Emotional and Social Loneliness among Dutch Older Adults".

    Pearl A Dykstra;Jenny de Jong Gierveld

  • Understanding the Effects of COVID-19 Through a Life Course Lens

    Richard A. Settersten;Laura Bernardi;Juho Härkönen;Toni C. Antonucci

  • Solidarity and Conflict between Adult Children and Parents: A Latent Class Analysis.

    Ruben I. van Gaalen;Pearl A. Dykstra

  • Living arrangements and social networks of older adults

    C.P.M. Knipscheer;J. de Jong-Gierveld;T.G. van Tilburg;P.A. Dykstra

  • Codebook of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study: a multi-actor, multi-method panel study on solidarity in family relationships. Wave 3, version 1, April 2012

    E.-M. Merz;P.A. Dykstra;M.J.A. Hogerbrugge;A.E. Komter

  • Relationships between parents and their adult children: a West European typology of late-life families

    Pearl A. Dykstra;Tineke Fokkema

  • Codebook of the Netherlands kinship panel study

    P.A. Dykstra;M. Kalmijn;T. Knijn;A.E. Komter

  • Living arrangements, intergenerational support types and older adult loneliness in Eastern and Western Europe

    Jenny de Jong Gierveld;Pearl A. Dykstra;Niels Schenk

  • Living arrangements and social networks as interlocking mediating structures

    Kees Knipscheer;Pearl Dykstra;Jenny de Jong Gierveld;Theo van Tilburg

  • Codebook of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study, a multi-actor, multi-method panel study on solidarity in family relationships, Wave 1.

    P.A. Dykstra;M. Kalmijn;T.C.M. Knijn;A.E. Komter

  • Loneliness among the never and formerly married: the importance of supportive friendships and a desire for independence.

    Pearl A. Dykstra

  • Pathways into childlessness : evidence of gendered life course dynamics

    Renske Keizer;Pearl A. Dykstra;Miranda D. Jansen

  • Roads Less Taken Developing a Nuanced View of Older Adults Without Children

    Pearl A. Dykstra;Gunhild O. Hagestad

  • Health of Aging Parents and Childless Individuals

    Hal Kendig;Pearl A. Dykstra;Ruben I. van Gaalen;Tuula Melkas

  • Levenslopen in verandering. Een studie naar ontwikkelingen in de levenslopen van Nederlanders geboren tussen 1900 en 1970

    P.A. Dykstra;A.C. Liefbroer

  • Solidarity and Conflict Between Adult Childrenand Parents

    Ruben I. van Gaalen;Pearl A. Dykstra

Frequent Co-Authors

Jenny de Jong Gierveld
Jenny de Jong Gierveld Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Matthijs Kalmijn
Matthijs Kalmijn University of Groningen
Theo G. van Tilburg
Theo G. van Tilburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ingrid Schoon
Ingrid Schoon University College London
Phyllis Moen
Phyllis Moen University of Minnesota
Jeylan T. Mortimer
Jeylan T. Mortimer University of Minnesota
Diana Kuh
Diana Kuh University College London
Elvira Fortunato
Elvira Fortunato Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Nicole Grobert
Nicole Grobert University of Oxford

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