scholarly journals Does Religiosity in the Transition to Adulthood Predict Filial Norms in Midlife?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 394-394
Author(s):  
Jeung Hyun Kim ◽  
Woosang Hwang ◽  
Maria Brown ◽  
Merril Silverstein
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Elder Care ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Broad Consensus

Abstract Objective This study aims to identify multiple dimensions of religiosity among young adults at the beginning and end of the transition to adulthood, and describe how transition patterns of religiosity in early adulthood are associated with filial elder-care norms in midlife. Background There is a broad consensus that religiosity is multidimensional in nature, but less is known regarding transitions in multiple dimensions of religiosity from early to middle adulthood and predicted filial eldercare norms as a function of those religiosity transitions. Methods The sample consisted of 368 young adults participating in the Longitudinal Study of Generations in 2000 (mean age = 23 years) and 2016 waves. We conducted a latent class and latent transition analyses to address our aims. Results We identified three religious latent classes among young adults in both 2000 and 2016 waves: strongly religious, weakly religious, and doctrinally religious. Staying strongly religious young adults between 2000 to 2016 waves reported higher filial elder-care norms in the 2016 Wave than those who were in staying weakly religious, staying doctrinally religious, and decreasing religiosity transition patterns between 2000 to 2016 waves. Conclusion Our findings suggest that religiosity is still an important value for young adults shaping their intergenerational relationships with their aging parents. Keywords: religiosity, filial eldercare norms, young adults, transition to adulthood

A longitudinal study of general practitioner consultations for psychiatric disorders in adolescence

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 709-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Smeeton ◽  
Greg Wilkinson ◽  
David Skuse ◽  
John Fry
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Young People ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnoses

SynopsisPatterns of psychiatric diagnoses given during adolescence to a group of individuals continuously registered with a single general practitioner in South London over 20 years were analysed first during ‘early adolescence’ and secondly during ‘early adulthood’. Psychiatric diagnoses were found to be relatively common. Of the young adolescents who received a psychiatric diagnosis (almost one in ten of the group), 38% received a psychiatric diagnosis as young adults compared with only 16% of the remainder. Comorbidity was found to be very common – over 50% of young adults with a diagnosis of depression also had a diagnosis of anxiety and phobic neuroses. Young people with problems of a psychological nature therefore deserve more attention, particularly from the primary care team.

scholarly journals Adaptations to the One-Child Policy: Chinese Young Adults’ Attitudes Toward Elder Care and Living Arrangement After Marriage

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaochen Chen ◽  
Cuo Zhuoga ◽  
Ziqian Deng
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Elder Care ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Only Children ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
Chinese Young Adults ◽  
The One

After four decades of China’s family planning policy, the shrinking family size and increasing life expectancy pose special challenges for the one-child generation in terms of providing care for aging parents. The current study explored young adults’ responses to such pressure by examining their concerns about elder care, attitudes toward nursing homes, and living arrangement after marriage in a sample of 473 Chinese working young adults from six cities in China (46.9% males, Mage = 25.1 years, 47.8% only children). Results showed that although most of the young adults reported to have thought about the issue of parents’ elder care, the majority did not worry a lot about it. Only children expressed similar levels of worrying as those with siblings did. However, educational level, rather than sibling status, was systematically related to concerns about parents’ elder care and attitudes toward nursing homes. People with higher education tended to worry less about elder care, and were less likely to consider placing parents in nursing homes as a violation of filial piety. Analyses of the married sub-sample (n = 140) revealed that only children were more likely to co-reside with parents after marriage than those with siblings. And the main reason for co-residence was that the younger generation needed their parents’ help for childcare, rather than to better take care of their parents. Implications for parents’ elder care among Chinese only children were discussed.

scholarly journals Leaving the Financial Nest: Connecting Young Adults’ Financial Independence to Financial Security

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Doherty Bea ◽  
Youngmin Yi
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Financial Independence ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Familial Support ◽  
Using Data

Objective: This study examines variation in young adults’ transitions to financial independence and the relationship between these transitions and financial security. Background: Individuals on their families for substantial financial support well into early adulthood, even as young adults perceive independence as a key marker of adulthood. Given known variation in transitions to adulthood and unequal exposure to financial precariousness across social groups, the authors ask whether heterogeneity emerges with regards to the timing of financial independence and types of support received, and how differences in pathways to independence may matter for financial security later in young adulthood.Method: The authors estimate group-based trajectory models of four indicators of financial independence for 1,719 young adults from age 18 - 27 using data from the 2005-2015 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/). These trajectories are then used to estimate predicted levels of financial security at the end of the study period, using logistic and linear regression analysis. Results: Results show that paths to young adults’ financial independence are best characterized by four types of trajectories: Consistently Independent (23%), Quickly Independent (41%), Gradually Independent (23%), and Consistently Supported (13%), with types and duration of support varying substantially across trajectories. The authors find that young adults experiencing trajectories characterized by lower levels of familial support also report higher levels of financial insecurity by the end of the survey. Conclusion: The findings suggest that the patterning and timing of financial independence in the transition to adulthood has implications for financial wellbeing.

scholarly journals Social Capital in Transition(s) to Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal and Mixed-Methods Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Barbosa Neves ◽  
Diana Dias de Carvalho ◽  
Fernando Serra ◽  
Anália Torres ◽  
Silvia Fraga
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Signed Rank ◽  
Bonding And Bridging

Social capital captures the value of relationships. Although research has examined social capital among adults, comparatively little attention has been paid to social capital among young adults—particularly from a longitudinal and mixed-methods perspective. As social capital predicts educational achievement, employment, and psychosocial well-being, it is an important construct to study alongside youth transition(s). Following a Bourdieusian approach, we define social capital as the resources potentially available in our ties that can be mobilized when necessary. To examine social capital in transition to adulthood, we draw on survey ( n = 1,650, at ages 17 and 21) and interview ( n = 70, at age 24) data from a cohort of Portuguese youth. We study the two main dimensions of social capital: bonding and bridging. Survey data were analyzed with latent class modeling, logistic regressions, and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, and interviews with thematic analysis. Findings show that respondents reported receiving more emotional support than financial support from their networks, but that both types of support increased over time. Perceived bonding and bridging also changed positively in transition to adulthood. In addition, gender and parental education predicted bonding and bridging. We contextualize these results with qualitative meanings and experiences of social capital.

scholarly journals Individualized Housing Careers in Early Adulthood: Conditions and Constraints in a Familistic Society

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magda Nico
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
Southern European Country ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Research And Policy

This article discusses the unsteady and uncertain conditions in which a potentially individualized life course co-exists with and survives in a so-called institutionalized, standardized, familistic and sub-protective society. For the purpose, non-family living in early adulthood in a southern European country (Portugal) is taken as the example. On one hand, data from the 2006 European Social Survey (23 countries, N=43000) is used to contextualize the Portuguese transition to adulthood and the preconceptions about the so-called familistic societies in general. On the other hand, data on events and values from a small sample of young adults living alone in Portugal (aged 24-30, N=120, approximately 1% of the universe considered), along with official statistics on a housing programme for these young adults (Rental Incentive for Young People), allows us to analytically deconstruct preconceptions about the relation between intergenerational support and welfare policies in familistic societies. This data demonstrates most of all how a mismatch between the still-prevailing institutionalization of life courses in some societies and the reflexivity characterizing contemporary biographies produces critical points in young people's lives. It also demonstrates the adaptability of family cultures to these ‘choice biographies’ in comparison to the lack of adaptability of some youth policies, in particular those involving housing. These processes of mismatching and misunderstanding reflect and promote the inadequacy and inefficiency of communication between youth research and policy-making.

Est modus in rebus: a longitudinal study of intergenerational solidarity and Locus of Control

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1242-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALERIA BORDONE
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Fixed Effects Regression ◽  
English Longitudinal Study ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACTThis study challenges the persistent assumption behind research on intergenerational relationships, wondering: ‘can there be too much of a good thing’? The guiding hypothesis states that intergenerational solidarity, although beneficial for older parents' wellbeing at moderate levels, may be negatively associated with their individual sense of control at high levels. In contrast to previous studies, fixed-effects regression models on panel data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing control for selection in solidarity and changes in health. The analysis of 4,811 women and 3,847 men above the age of 50 also accounts for intergenerational conflict. Using multiple dimensions of intergenerational solidarity, our findings offer insight into the different roles of the various types of solidarity and can aid the design of formal and informal social support interventions.

How adolescents and adults translate motivational value to action: Age-related shifts in strategic physical effort exertion for monetary rewards

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra M Rodman ◽  
Katherine Powers ◽  
Catherine Insel ◽  
Erik K Kastman ◽  
Katherine Kabotyanski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Incentive Motivation ◽  
Reward Processing ◽  
Monetary Reward ◽  
Physical Effort ◽  
Monetary Rewards ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Adolescents And Adults

Adults titrate the degree of physical effort they are willing to expend according to the magnitude of reward they expect to obtain, a process guided by incentive motivation. However, it remains unclear whether adolescents, who are undergoing normative developmental changes in cognitive and reward processing, translate incentive motivation into action in a way that is similarly tuned to reward value and economical in effort utilization. The present study adapted a classic physical effort paradigm to quantify age-related changes in motivation-based and strategic markers of effort exertion for monetary rewards from adolescence to early adulthood. One hundred and three participants aged 12-23 years completed a task that involved exerting low or high amounts of physical effort, in the form of a hand grip, to earn low or high amounts of money. Adolescents and young adults exhibited highly similar incentive-modulated effort for reward according to measures of peak grip force and speed, suggesting that motivation for monetary reward is consistent across age. However, young adults expended energy more economically and strategically: whereas adolescents were prone to exert excess physical effort beyond what was required to earn reward, young adults were more likely to strategically prepare before each grip phase and conserve energy by opting out of low reward trials. This work extends theoretical models of development of incentive-driven behavior by demonstrating that layered on similarity in motivational value for monetary reward, there are important differences in the way behavior is flexibly adjusted in the presence of reward from adolescence to young adulthood.

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