@article{30a996cea59c41499cba515d8328c205,
title = "Teen Mothers{\textquoteright} Family Support and Adult Identity in the Emerging Adulthood: Implications for Socioeconomic Attainment Later in Life",
abstract = "We examined the prospective role of parental support and adult identity profiles in the transition to adulthood on teen mothers{\textquoteright} socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood. Analyses were based on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, a nationally representative sample of youth followed over a decade. We used data from Waves 1, 3, and 4 (mean age = 28.6, Wave 4). Analytical sample consisted of 981 females who gave birth before age 20. Analysis included design-based regression models. Findings from adjusted regression models showed no statistically significant associations between teen mothers{\textquoteright} parental support and socioeconomic outcomes. While teen mothers have already achieved an important marker of adulthood, variability in adult identity profiles was observed. Teen mothers with older subjective age, regardless of their levels of psychosocial maturation, had higher socioeconomic attainment on some indicators. Findings suggest that teen mothers{\textquoteright} adult identity profiles differentiate their socioeconomic trajectories later in life.",
keywords = "adolescent health, adult identity profiles, longitudinal study, social support, teen parenting",
author = "Assini-Meytin, {Luciana C.} and Garza, {Mary A.} and Green, {Kerry M.}",
note = "Funding Information: This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. We also gratefully acknowledge support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Child Health and Human Development grant R24-HD041041, Maryland Population Research Center. No direct support was received from grants P01-HD31921 and R24-HD041041 for this analysis. This research was conducted at the University of Maryland, College Park, as part of the first author?s doctoral dissertation. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding Information: This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. We also gratefully acknowledge support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Child Health and Human Development grant R24-HD041041, Maryland Population Research Center. No direct support was received from grants P01-HD31921 and R24-HD041041 for this analysis. This research was conducted at the University of Maryland, College Park, as part of the first author{\textquoteright}s doctoral dissertation. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood and SAGE Publishing.",
year = "2022",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1177/2167696819879251",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
pages = "161--172",
journal = "Emerging Adulthood",
issn = "2167-6968",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "1",
}