Does substance use play a role in gender differences in residential independence and returns to the parental home?

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cody Warner ◽  
Emily Cady
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Adolescent Females ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood ◽  
Home Leaving

Young adults are co-residing with their parents at higher rates now than in the past, and recent research has explored the correlates of both leaving and subsequently returning to the parental home. Of relevance here, females tend to leave home earlier than their male counterparts, and research finds that drinking and drug use are also linked to residential transitions. This research note explores if substance use during adolescence and young adulthood plays a role in gender differences in home-leaving and home-returning. We find that marijuana use plays a role in both home-leaving and home-returning, with adolescent females who use marijuana the most at risk for early exits from home, and marijuana using males the most at risk for home-returning.

scholarly journals Differences in substance use by sexual orientation and gender among Jewish young adults in Israel

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagit Bonny-Noach ◽  
Mally Shechory-Bitton
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
The Past ◽  
Community Norms ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Background This study focuses on sexual orientation and gender-based differences among Israeli young adult substance use behaviors. In addition, it evaluates young adult perception of substance use and acceptance of substances use by close friends. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study. A self-reported anonymous questionnaire was distributed to a convenience sample of 496 young-adults (age: M = 23.14, SD = 2.48), which included 126 heterosexual males, 128 heterosexual females, 131 gay men, and 111 lesbians. Results This study revealed significant sexual orientation and gender differences in all outcomes examined. Significant substance usage differences were found for same-sex orientation as 52% reported cannabis use and 24% reported using other illegal substances during the past 12 months compared to 34 and 6% (respectively) among heterosexuals. Significant gender differences were found, as male participants reported 50% cannabis use and 19% reported other illegal substance use in the past 12 months compared to 35 and 11% (respectively) among females. Additionally, compared with heterosexuals, gay men and lesbians perceived/assessed significantly higher substance usage rates among their close friends and higher levels of substance use acceptance by close friends. Regression models indicated the important role of respondent perceived and acceptance of substance use among close friends. Binge drinking, cannabis use, and other illegal substance use were positively associated with participants’ perceived substance use and substance use acceptance level by close friends, after controlling for gender, sexual orientation, age, and level of education. Conclusions Close friends and community norms can play an important role in shaping substance usage among young adults, especially among gay men and lesbians. The results of the current study highlight the need for developing prevention and harm reduction drug policies for Israeli young adults, especially for gay men and lesbians. Interventions should also focus on young adult peers and community norms related to substance use by professionals in educational, policy-making, and therapeutic contexts.

Identity Status, Gender, and Social Comparison among Young Adults

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanny Gyberg ◽  
Ann Frisén
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Global Identity ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Social Comparison Orientation ◽  
And Diffusion

The aim of this study was to investigate identity status globally and across identity domains among young Swedish adult women and men. Also, potential differences in social comparison between identity statuses were evaluated. The results showed that most of the 124 participants (50% women, Mage 33.29 years) were assigned to an achieved global identity and had made identity-defining commitments across domains. Gender differences in identity status were found in the occupational and parenthood domains. In addition, differences in social comparison orientation were found only in the parenthood domain, whereas those assigned to moratorium scored higher in social comparison than did those assigned to foreclosure and diffusion. These results bring important knowledge to our understanding of identity during young adulthood.

Nebraska, New England, New York

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-59
Author(s):  
Melissa J. Homestead
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Family History ◽  
New England ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Willa Cather ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
College Education ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood

This chapter describes Edith Lewis’s family history, childhood, and education as a background to her first meeting with Willa Cather in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1903. Because of Lewis’s deeply rooted New England family history, her Nebraska childhood, her elite eastern college education, and her plans to move to New York to pursue literary work, Cather found powerfully concentrated in Lewis two geographically located versions of the past she valued: the Nebraska of her own childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, and a New England–centered literary culture she encountered through reading. Cather also glimpsed in Lewis the future to which she herself aspired, the glittering promise of literary New York.

Testing the dual pathway hypothesis to substance use in adolescence and young adulthood

2007 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa C. Dierker ◽  
Faiza Vesel ◽  
Eve M. Sledjeski ◽  
Darce Costello ◽  
Nicholas Perrine
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Dual Pathway ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood

Time perspective and autobiographical memory: Individual and gender differences in experiencing time and remembering the past

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Ely ◽  
Andrea Mercurio
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Big Five Inventory ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
The Past ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Memory Questionnaire

This study examined the degree to which time perspectives were associated with the processes and content of autobiographical memory. A sample of 230 young adults (118 women) completed the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI; Zimbardo and Boyd, 1999 ), the Big Five Inventory (BFI; John and Srivastava, 1999 ), and responded in writing to seven memory prompts as well as to items from the Autobiographical Memory Questionnaire (AMQ; Rubin et al., 2003 ). The Past Positive and Future subscales of the ZTPI predicted many aspects of memory even when controlling for BFI traits. There were gender differences in time perspectives and gender moderated a number of the correlations between time perspectives and autobiographical memory.

Correlates Contributing to Involvement in Violent Behaviors Among Young Adults

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Williams ◽  
Richard A. Van Dorn ◽  
J. David Hawkins ◽  
Robert Abbott ◽  
Richard F. Catalano
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Preventive Intervention ◽  
Violent Behavior ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Antisocial Behaviors ◽  
Prevention Study ◽  
Environmental Correlates ◽  
Violent Behaviors

The study examines the extent to which gender, personality attributes, household, community, and environmental factors are associated with violent behaviors in young adulthood. The authors present findings from a sample of 765 21-year-old individuals participating in a drug and delinquency prevention study. Personality attributes, opportunities, and social acceptability of antisocial behaviors were identified as accounting for gender differences and having more influence on violent behavior than environmental correlates. Implications for preventive intervention are discussed.

scholarly journals Personality Development from Age 12 to 25 and its Links with Life Transitions

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marloes P.A. Van Dijk ◽  
William W. Hale ◽  
Skyler T. Hawk ◽  
Wim Meeus ◽  
Susan Branje
Keyword(s):  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Life Transitions ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood ◽  
First Job ◽  
Leaving The Parental Home

During adolescence and young adulthood, individuals show personality changes and experience various life transitions. Whereas personality might affect the timing of life transitions, life transitions might also induce personality maturation. We examined Big Five personality maturation from age 12 to 25 using a 9–year longitudinal study of Dutch youths from two cohorts ( n 1 = 683, MageT1 = 12.70; n 2 = 268, Mage T1 = 16.87). We linked personality maturation to the incidence and timing of four transitions: first romantic relationship, leaving the parental home, first job, and first cohabitation or marriage. Results indicated increases in mean levels, rank–order stabilities and profile stability of personality between age 12 and 25, which were largely replicated across the cohorts. Very few associations between personality and life transitions existed. However, higher mean–level Extraversion predicted leaving the parental home and starting the first romantic relationship, an earlier age when starting the first job, and an earlier average timing of transitions. Regarding social investment effects, we only found that those who never experienced a romantic relationship at age 25 decreased, while those who did increased in profile stability over time. These results suggest that personality consistently matures during adolescence and young adulthood and that higher Extraversion predict greater readiness for new steps towards adulthood.

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