Johnson Monica Kirkpatrick
Department of Sociology, Washington State University, P.O. Box 644020, Pullman, WA 99164-4020 (
J Marriage Fam. 2013 Jun 1;75(3):713-733. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12029.
Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examined the impact of parental financial assistance on young adults' relationships with parents and well-being. Conditional change models were estimated to evaluate the effects of parental financial assistance reported in Wave 3 (ages 18 - 26) and Wave 4 (ages 24 - 32) of the study. The results (s ranged from 9,128 to 13,389 across outcomes) indicated that financial assistance was positively associated with changes in depressive symptoms and closeness to both mothers and fathers in both periods. Changes in self-esteem were less robustly linked to parental financial assistance. Although the observed pattern with respect to parent - child relations held regardless of the progress young people had made in the transition to adulthood, the effects for well-being, which were also relatively small in magnitude, did not. In particular, changes in depressive symptoms associated with financial assistance were concentrated among individuals occupying adult social roles.
本研究利用全国青少年健康纵向研究的数据，考察了父母经济援助对年轻人与父母关系及幸福感的影响。采用条件变化模型来评估该研究第3波（18 - 26岁）和第4波（24 - 32岁）中报告的父母经济援助的影响。结果（各结果的样本量在9128至13389之间）表明，在这两个时期，经济援助与抑郁症状的变化以及与父母双方的亲密程度呈正相关。自尊的变化与父母经济援助的关联较弱。尽管观察到的亲子关系模式与年轻人向成年过渡所取得的进展无关，但幸福感方面的影响（其幅度也相对较小）并非如此。特别是，与经济援助相关的抑郁症状变化集中在承担成人社会角色的个体中。
