People

Primary Area of Research:

• Sociology of Mental Health
• Work-Family Conflict
• International Migration
• Neighborhood Context
• Quantitative Methodology

Recent Publications

• Montazer, Shirin. “Immigration, Homeownership, and Mental Health.” Socius: Sociological Research for Dynamic World. https://doi.org/10.1177/237802312211393
• Montazer, Shirin, Krista M. Brumley, Laura Pineault, Katheryn Maguire, Boris Baltes. “COVID-19 Onset, Parental Status, and Psychological Distress among Full-time Employed Heterosexual Adults in Dual-earning Relationships: The Explanatory Role of Work-family Conflict and Guilt” Society and Mental Health.
• 2021. Brumley, M. Krista, Katheryn Maguire, Shirin Montazer. “The Paradox of Time: Work, family, conflict, and the social construction of time.” Sociological Focus 54: 310-330Montazer, Shirin and Marisa Young. “Commuting Distance and Work-to-Family Conflict: The Moderating Role of Residential Attributes.” Social Currents 7:231-251.
• 2022. Montazer, Shirin and Marisa Young. “Commuting Distance and Work-to-Family Conflict: The Moderating Role of Residential Attributes.” Social Currents 7:231-251.

Current Research Projects:

• Agency: NSF
  • Title: RAPID: Work, Family, and Social Well-being among Couples in the Context of COVID-19.
  • Role: Co-PI (PI: K. Brumley; Co-PI: B. Baltes, K. Maguire)
  • Dates: 2020-2021
  • Total Funds: $191,000
• Agency: Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
  • Title: The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Egalitarian Family Environments: A Follow up Study
  • Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Blair Wheaton, University of Toronto)
  • Dates: 2014-2020
  • Total Funds: C$242,697

Primary Area of Research

• Computational and Quantitative Methods
• Health & Mental Health
• Life Course and Aging

Primary Area of Research:

• Health, Illness, and Medicine
• Quantitative Methods
• Aging and the Life Course

Recent Publications:

• Lee, Yeonjung and Alex Bierman. 2023. “A Profile of Positive and Negative Caregiving Experiences Among Canadian Older Adults: The Relevance of Demographic and Care Contexts.” Forthcoming at Journal of Applied Gerontology.
• Bierman, Alex, Yeonjung Lee, and Margaret Penning. 2022. “Mental Health Benefits and Detriments of Caregiving Demands: A Nonlinear Association in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.” Forthcoming at Journal of Aging and Health.
• Wu, Cary, Alex Bierman, and Scott Schieman. 2022. “Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19.” Social Science Research 108:102750.
• Upenieks, Laura, Scott Schieman, and Alex Bierman. 2021 “Jitters on the eve of the Great Recession: Is the belief in divine control a protective resource?” Sociology of Religion83:194-221.

Current Research Projects:

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2022-2025.  Financial Strain and Mental Health in Canadian Older Adults.  $ 77,001.  (Alex Bierman, P.I.).
• New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration, 2022-2024.  Examining the Current Canadian Social Context of Prenatal Cannabis Consumption and Intersections with Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes..  $ 250,000.  (Co-Investigator with Kathleen Chaput, P.I).
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2020-2025.  Distributive Justice in Canada.  $382,940.  (Collaborator with Scott Schieman and Atsushi Narisada, co-P.I.’s).
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2018-2023.  The Complexity of the Caregiving Outcomes: Understanding the Role of Social Statuses and Social Resourcesand Resources.  $65,410.  (Co-Investigator with Yeonjung Lee, P.I.).

Primary Areas of Research:

• Mental Health/Health
• Gender
• Work and Family
• Culture

Recent Publications:

• Young, Marisa, Melissa A. Milkie and Scott Schieman. 2022. “Mother-Father Parity in Work-Family Conflict? The Importance of Selection Effects and Nonresponse Bias.” Social Forces.
• Berghammer, Caroline and Melissa A. Milkie. 2021. “Felt Deficits in Time with Children: Individual and Contextual Factors Across 27 European Countries.” British Journal of Sociology.
• Milkie, Melissa A., Dana Wray and Irene Boeckmann. 2021. “Creating Versus Negating Togetherness: Perceptual and Emotional Differences in Parent-Teenager Reported Time.” Journal of Marriage and Family 83:1154-75.
• Wray, Dana, Julia Ingenfeld, Melissa A. Milkie and Irene Boeckmann. 2021. “Beyond Childcare: Changes in the Amount and Types of Parent-Child Time over Three Decades.” Canadian Review of Sociology.
• Milkie, Melissa A., Dana Wray and Irene Boeckmann. 2021. “Gendered Pressures: Divergent Experiences Linked to Housework Time Among Partnered Women and Men.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies.

Current Research Projects

• What is the Best Policy Mix for Diverse Canadian Families with Young Children? Re-imagining Family Polices.” Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership grant, Andrea Doucet, Project Director; Melissa Milkie & 29 others, Co-investigators. (Project period 4/20 to 3/27).
• Care Economies in Context: Towards Sustainable Social and Economic Development.” Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership grant, Ito Peng, Project Director; Melissa Milkie (Canada Team Lead) & many others, Co-investigator. Also funded through The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations. (Project period 4/21 to 3/26).
• Settlement, Integration, and Stress: A 5-year Longitudinal Study of Syrian Newcomer Mothers and Teens in the GTA.” Neda Maghbouleh, Principal Investigator. Melissa A. Milkie and Ito Peng, Co-Investigators. SSHRC Insight Grant, $349,364. (Project period 3/18 to 3/23).

Primary Area of Research

• Health & Mental Health
• Computational and Quantitative Methods
• Work, Stratification and Markets

Recent Publications

• Assessment of sociodemographics and inflation-related stress in the US
  • C Wu, P Louie, A Bierman, S Schieman
  • JAMA Network Open 6 (5), e2313431-e2313431
• A forced vacation? The stress of being temporarily laid off during a pandemic
  • S Schieman, Q Mai, P Badawy, RW Kang
• Work and Occupations 50 (2), 255-283
  • Mother–father parity in work–family conflict? The importance of selection effects and nonresponse bias
  • M Young, MA Milkie, S Schieman
• Social Forces 101 (3), 1171-1198

Current Research Projects

• Quality of Employment Survey-Updated (QES-UP)
  • In February and March of 2022, Professor Schieman partnered with Angus Reid Global to survey a nationally representative sample of 2,015 American workers in the United States. One objective is to provide a 50-year history from 1970 to the present of trends in the quality of worklife and how it shapes the sense of self and identity, status, and well-being.
• American Quality of Work & Economic Life Study (A-QWELS)
  • This ongoing study has collected data on more than 6,500 American workers in 2020 and 2021. One objective is to investigate how Americans perceive work and economic conditions. Professor Schieman traces how these factors shape perceptions of inequality, satisfaction, and health, and how the role of work in our lives has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Canadian Quality of Work & Economic Life Study (C-QWELS)
  • This ongoing study has collected data on more than 16,000 Canadian workers in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. One objective is to investigate how Canadians perceive work and economic conditions, and how these factors are linked to status, satisfaction, and health. With 14 waves of data collection that started in September 2019 and repeated follow-ups throughout the pandemic, the C-QWELS provides an in-depth history into the experiences of Canadians during the societal changes due to COVID-19.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Work, Stress and Health Study (WSH)
  • In 2005, Professor Schieman collected data from a nationally representative sample of 1,800 working American adults and followed up two years later on the eve of the Great Recession. One objective is to document the effects of work-related stress, with an emphasis on interpersonal conflict in the workplace and anger.
• The Canadian Work Stress and Health Study (CAN-WSH)
  • In 2011, Professor Schieman fielded a national survey of 6,000 working Canadians and followed up every two years until 2019. One objective is to track changes in demands and resources that workers experience in their roles, with an emphasis on the work-family interface, after-hours contact, multitasking, and work-life culture.