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Author: Johnston, Carol A.
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Crosnoe, Robert Johnston, Carol A. Cavanagh, Shannon Gershoff, Elizabeth T. |
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Family Formation History and the Psychological Well-Being of Women from Diverse Racial-Ethnic Groups Journal of Health and Social Behavior 64, 2 (24 March 2023): 261-279. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00221465231159387 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Depression (see also CESD); Family Characteristics; Family Roles; Health, Mental/Psychological; Life Satisfaction; Motherhood; Mothers; Mothers, Health; Parental Marital Status; Parenthood; Racial Studies; Relationships/Partnerships; Women; Women, Black; Women, Latina; Women, White; Womens Health Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Studying disparities in psychological well-being across diverse groups of women can illuminate the racialized health risks of gendered family life. Integrating life course and demand–reward perspectives, this study applied sequencing techniques to the National Longitudinal Study of Youth: 1979 to reveal seven trajectories of partnership and parenthood through women’s 20s and 30s, including several in which parenthood followed partnership at different ages and with varying numbers of children and others characterized by nonmarital fertility or eschewing such roles altogether. These sequences differentiated positive and negative dimensions of women’s well-being in their 50s. Women who inhabited any family role had greater life satisfaction and fewer depressive symptoms, although these general patterns differed by race-ethnicity. Family roles were more closely related to well-being than ill-being for White women, parenthood had more pronounced importance across outcomes for Black women, and the coupling of partnership and parenthood generally mattered more for Latinas. |
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Crosnoe, Robert, Carol A. Johnston, Shannon Cavanagh and Elizabeth T. Gershoff. "Family Formation History and the Psychological Well-Being of Women from Diverse Racial-Ethnic Groups." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 64, 2 (24 March 2023): 261-279.
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Johnston, Carol A. Cavanagh, Shannon Crosnoe, Robert |
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Family Structure Patterns from Childhood through Adolescence and the Timing of Cohabitation among Diverse Groups of Young Adult Women and Men Developmental Psychology 56,1 (2020): 165-179. Also: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2019-64496-001.html Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Family Structure; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Modeling, Latent Class Analysis/Latent Transition Analysis; Stepfamilies; Transition, Adulthood Family structure changes experienced by children are likely to shape their transitions into young adulthood, including the formation of their own romantic relationships. This study examined links between children's family structure trajectories from childhood through adolescence and their timing of entry into cohabitation as young adults, a transition with implications for future relationship instability through adulthood. Repeated measures latent class analysis identified configurations of family structures and family structure changes from birth through age 15 among 10,706 young people in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Children and Young Adults. A Cox proportional hazard model then used the resulting classes to predict timing into cohabitation over the period from age 15 to age 38. Both timing of family structure transitions and the type of transitions (e.g., early transitioning into a stepfamily home) were associated with earlier entry into cohabitation. Notably, links between family structure trajectories and the timing of cohabitation differed by gender and race/ethnicity (Latinx, African American, White), such as a faster entry into cohabitation by women who experienced early entry into stepfamily structures. Regardless of gender, Latinx and White young adults were faster to enter into cohabitation if they lived in a stepfamily structure during early childhood. |
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Johnston, Carol A., Shannon Cavanagh and Robert Crosnoe. "Family Structure Patterns from Childhood through Adolescence and the Timing of Cohabitation among Diverse Groups of Young Adult Women and Men." Developmental Psychology 56,1 (2020): 165-179.
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Johnston, Carol A. Crosnoe, Robert Mernitz, Sara E. Pollitt, Amanda |
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Two Methods for Studying the Developmental Significance of Family Structure Trajectories Journal of Marriage and Family published online (4 December 2019): DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12639. Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12639 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Family Structure; Methods/Methodology; Modeling, Latent Class Analysis/Latent Transition Analysis Objective: The objective of this research note is to use both sequence analysis (SA) and repeated‐measures latent class analysis (LCA) to identify children's family structure trajectories from birth through age 15 and compare how the two sets of trajectories predict alcohol use across the transition from adolescence into young adulthood. Method: The authors used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth-Child and Youth Cohort (N = 11,515) to identify clusters (using SA) and classes (using repeated‐measures LCA) that represented children's family structure trajectories from birth through age 15. Using two multiple‐group random slope models, the authors predicted alcohol use across adolescence and young adulthood (ages 16-24) among the clusters (Model 1) and classes (Model 2). Results: The SA identified five clusters, but the LCA further differentiated the sample with more detail on timing and identified eight classes. The sensitivity to timing in the LCA solution was substantively relevant to alcohol use across the transition to young adulthood. |
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Johnston, Carol A., Robert Crosnoe, Sara E. Mernitz and Amanda Pollitt. "Two Methods for Studying the Developmental Significance of Family Structure Trajectories." Journal of Marriage and Family published online (4 December 2019): DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12639.
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