"Young Adults Leaving & Returning to the Parental Home."

说明(申请人提供)：尽管近几十年来仍居住在父母之家的年轻人的比例显著增加，但我们对目前阻碍或促进年轻人离家的因素知之甚少，对鼓励年轻人在实现居住独立后返回父母之家的因素更是知之甚少。这项研究将使用收入动态过渡到成人的小组研究(PSID-TA)项目的数据，在2005至2011年间年满18岁的具有全国代表性的年轻人样本中，研究离开和返回父母之家的时间模式和决定因素。特别注意社会人口特征(例如，性别和种族/族裔)；儿童早期环境(例如，家庭结构)；最近的人生历程转变(例如，上大学、为人父母、就业)；意想不到的冲击(例如，失业、工会解散)；父母特征(例如，父母的婚姻状况、父母的社会经济状况、家庭拥挤)；以及与父母的关系(例如，情感上的亲密关系)对离开和返回父母之家的时机的影响。此外，还注意到这些因素如何影响离家的具体途径(例如，上大学或寻求居住独立)；生活进程转变、意外事件、父母特征和父母关系对离家和返乡时间的影响是否因性别和种族/族裔而异；以及离开和回到父母家的时间上的社会人口和家庭结构差异在多大程度上可归因于青少年与父母关系质量的亚群差异。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite a pronounced increase over recent decades in the percentage of young adults still residing in the parental home, we know little about the factors that currently impede or facilitate young adults' home-leaving and even less about the factors that encourage young adults to return to the parental home after having achieved residential independence. This study will use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics' Transition into Adulthood (PSID-TA) project to examine patterns and determinants of the timing of leaving and returning to the parental home among a nationally-representative sample of young adults who turned age 18 between 2005 and 2011. Special attention is given to the impact of sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., sex and race/ethnicity); early childhood circumstances (e.g., family structure); recent life-course transitions (e.g., college attendance, parenthood, employment); unexpected shocks (e.g., job loss, union dissolution); parental characteristics (e.g., parents' marital status, parents' socioeconomic status, household crowding); and relationships with parents (e.g., emotional closeness) on the timing of leaving and returning to the parental home. Additional attention is given to how these factors influence particular routes to leaving home (e.g., to attend college or for residential independence); whether the effects of life-course transitions, unexpected events, parental characteristics, and parental relationships on the timing of both home-leaving and home-returning vary by gender and race/ethnicity; and the degree to which sociodemographic and family structure differences in the timing of leaving and returning to the parental home can be attributed to subgroup differences in the quality of youths' relationships with their parents.