Journal
EMERGING ADULTHOOD
Volume 4, Issue 6, Pages 378-390Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/2167696815627250
Keywords
academic achievement; depression; life course; romantic relationships; transition to adulthood
Funding
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [P01-HD31921]
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The current study examines two developmental risk pathways (an academic/economic pathway and a delinquency/interpersonal pathway) linking cumulative socioeconomic adversity to subsequent depressive symptoms and the interplay between these pathways and depressive symptoms using path analysis with a sample of 14,563 respondents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health over a 13- year period. Minority youth comprised 49% of this nationally representative sample, including 21% Blacks, 16% Hispanics, 6% Asians, 2% Native Americans, and 4% multiracial youth. Cumulative socioeconomic adversity appears to initiate an adverse life course process involving depressive symptoms, academic/economic difficulties, and delinquency/interpersonal incompetency. It appears that mediating life experiences partially explain the persistent influence of socioeconomic adversity and the continuity of depressive symptoms over the early life course. A deeper understanding of this dynamic process provides insight into the prevention of emotional problems in these early life stages.
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