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Title: Exiting and Returning to the Parental Home for Boomerang Kids
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Sandberg-Thoma, Sara Snyder, Anastasia R. Jang, Bohyun |
Exiting and Returning to the Parental Home for Boomerang Kids Journal of Marriage and Family 77,3 (June 2015): 806-818. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12183/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Economic Independence; Exits; Health, Mental/Psychological; Life Course; Residence, Return to Parental Home/Delayed Homeleaving; Transition, Adulthood Young adults commonly exit from and return to the parental home, yet few studies have examined the motivation behind these exits and returns using a life course framework. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, the authors examined associations between mental health problems and economic characteristics and exits from (n = 8,162) and returns to (n = 6,530) the parental home during the transition to adulthood. The average age of the respondents was 24 years. The authors found evidence that mental health and economic characteristics were related to home leaving and returning. Emotional distress was associated with earlier exits from and returns to the parental home; alcohol problems were associated with earlier returns to the parental home. The findings regarding economic resources were unexpectedly mixed. Greater economic resources were linked to delayed exits from and earlier returns to the parental home. The implications of these findings for young adults are discussed. |
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Sandberg-Thoma, Sara, Anastasia R. Snyder and Bohyun Jang. "Exiting and Returning to the Parental Home for Boomerang Kids." Journal of Marriage and Family 77,3 (June 2015): 806-818.
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