Centre for Health Policy, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
PLoS One. 2023 Nov 29;18(11):e0294248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294248. eCollection 2023.
The growing trend towards young adults staying in the parental home has garnered much recent scholarly interest. However, less is known about which young adults are living at home, and the impacts this has over young adults' lives. Using The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) dataset, this study examines the profiles of co-residing young adults and how these have changed over the first two decades of the 21st century. It then analyses the associations between co-residence and young adults' mental health, applying a propensity score modelling approach to determine differences in mental health between young adults living at home and their counterparts living independently. Results indicate that rates of co-residence have increased over the 2000s, most steeply amongst those residing outside of major cities (by 46%), older adults (by 36%), females (by 28%), and low-income groups (by 10%). Findings show a significant negative association between co-residence and mental health (a 4-point difference on the 100-point scale, 95% CI -5.93, -2.14). However, the greatest differential in mental health between co-resident and independent young adults is observed amongst those for whom rates of co-residence have increased most dramatically, i.e., females and older adults (a 6-point difference in mental health) and residents of regional and rural areas (a 5-point difference in mental health). We situate this discussion in the context of intensifying housing market constraints, considering how the transformation of the Australian housing system into a vehicle for wealth accumulation has generated barriers to residential independence.
越来越多的年轻人选择留在父母家中，这引起了最近学术界的广泛关注。然而，人们对于哪些年轻人选择与父母同住，以及这种现象对年轻人生活的影响知之甚少。本研究利用澳大利亚家庭、收入和劳动力动态调查（HILDA）数据集，考察了共同居住的年轻成年人的特征，以及这些特征在 21 世纪头 20 年是如何变化的。然后，我们分析了共同居住与年轻人心理健康之间的关系，采用倾向得分匹配模型来确定与独立生活的年轻人相比，居住在父母家中的年轻人心理健康状况的差异。结果表明，在 21 世纪 00 年代，共同居住的比例有所上升，其中在非主要城市（上升 46%）、年龄较大的成年人（上升 36%）、女性（上升 28%）和低收入群体（上升 10%）中上升幅度最大。研究结果表明，共同居住与心理健康之间存在显著的负相关关系（在 100 分制的量表上相差 4 分，95%CI-5.93，-2.14）。然而，在共同居住和独立的年轻人之间，心理健康差异最大的是那些共同居住比例增长最快的人群，即女性和年龄较大的成年人（心理健康相差 6 分）以及居住在地区和农村地区的人（心理健康相差 5 分）。我们将这一讨论置于住房市场限制加剧的背景下，考虑到澳大利亚住房系统向财富积累工具的转变如何为年轻人的独立居住制造了障碍。
