Adolescent family experiences and educational attainment during early adulthood.
Year: 2008
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In this study, the authors investigated the degree to which a family investment model would help account for the association between family of origin socioeconomic characteristics and the later educational attainment of 451 young adults (age 26) from 2-parent families. Parents' educational level, occupational prestige, and family income in 1989 each had a statistically significant direct relationship with youths' educational attainment in 2002. Consistent with the theoretical model guiding the study, parents' educational level and family income also demonstrated statistically significant indirect effects on later educational attainment through their associations with growth trajectories for supportive parenting, sibling relations, and adolescent academic engagement. Supportive parenting and sibling relations were linked to later educational attainment through their association with adolescent academic engagement. Academic engagement during adolescence was associated with educational attainment in young adulthood. These basic processes operated similarly regardless of youths' gender, target youths' age relative to a near-age sibling, gender composition of the sibling dyad, or gender of parent.
Source: Developmental Psychology
DOI: 10.1037/a0013352
Institutions: Iowa State University, University of California, Davis
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: Economic Stress & Child Development Across 3 Generations, G146181197, ECONOMIC STRAIN AND SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR SINGLE PARENTS, G1698437006, G199431700, G2870839237, G2898162359, CENTER FOR FAMILY RESEARCH IN RURAL MENTAL HEALTH, A MICRO PROCESS STUDY: SIBLINGS AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR, FAMILY RESILIENCE TO ECONOMIC STRESS, G4721794917, G4864321229, G4911183466, G5299890749, RURAL FAMILY ECONOMIC STRESS AND ADOLESCENT DRUG USE, G5546062423, G556743218, G5930522497, Critical Transitions in Rural Families at Risk, G6731669239, MIDLIFE ADAPTATION AND HEALTH IN RURAL SOCIETY, G7034625047, Research Training In Transitions, Family & Mental Health, G7124619883, G7403923605, Relationship Development and Health in Young Adults, G791180255, MENTAL HEALTH &SOCIAL CHANGE--A LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE
OpenAlex ID: W1974096522