Lee Tae Kyoung, Wickrama Kandauda A S, O'Neal Catherine Walker, Prado Guillermo
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, United States.
Department of Human Development and Family Science, The University of Georgia, United States.
Soc Sci Res. 2018 Feb;70:212-228. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.12.001. Epub 2017 Dec 9.
The purposes of the present study are to investigate: (1) the heterogeneity in life transition patterns of youth from adolescence to young adulthood (ages 18-30) involving the timing and sequence of four transition events (college graduation, full-time employment, marriage, and parenthood), (2) the influence of early socioeconomic adversity on life transition patterns from adolescence to young adulthood, and (3) the influence of gender and race/ethnicity on these transition patterns. Using a multivariate discrete-time mixture survival model with a sample of 14,503 adolescents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), the study identified four life transition patterns and found that early socioeconomic adversity shapes disrupted life transition patterns from adolescence to young adulthood. Gender and race/ethnicity differences are discussed. These results highlight the need for prevention and intervention programs that selectively target at-risk youth beginning in adolescence and continuing through subsequent transition periods.
（1）青少年到青年期（18 - 30岁）生命过渡模式的异质性，包括四个过渡事件（大学毕业、全职工作、结婚和为人父母）的时间和顺序；（2）早期社会经济逆境对从青少年到青年期生命过渡模式的影响；（3）性别和种族/族裔对这些过渡模式的影响。该研究使用多变量离散时间混合生存模型，以来自全国青少年健康纵向研究（Add Health）的14503名青少年为样本，确定了四种生命过渡模式，并发现早期社会经济逆境塑造了从青少年到青年期的中断生命过渡模式。文中还讨论了性别和种族/族裔差异。这些结果凸显了预防和干预项目的必要性，这些项目应从青少年期开始，有针对性地针对高危青年，并持续到随后的过渡阶段。
