The Material context of adolescent identity formation: a family economic stress approach

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Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
The Material context of adolescent identity formation: a family economic stress approach
In the Journal:
Identity (Mahwah, N.J.). 2021, vol. 21, iss. 3, p. 200-218
Summary / Abstract:

ENGrounded in the family stress model and recent studies on cognitive effects of poverty, the current study examines how family material conditions relate to identity-relevant information processing among adolescents via family economic strain, family financial conflicts, and parenting behaviors. Data for the study come from the first wave of a longitudinal study on the development of adolescent goals in the context of socio-economic inequalities. The sample includes 1,268 adolescents (51.7% females; M = 14.87; SD = 0.39) attending 36 gymnasiums. Findings reveal that the family economic situation contributes to how adolescents process identity-relevant information, but these effects are primarily indirect. Specifically, better family material conditions are associated with more supportive parental engagement in their children’s identity-relevant decisions, which in turn is associated with higher levels of the information-oriented identity processing style. Poorer family material conditions, economic pressures, and conflicts are associated with parental interference and a lack of engagement, which in turn is associated with higher levels of diffuse-avoidant identity style. The identity styles themselves are known predictors for a wide array of outcomes. Therefore, our findings suggest that countering the adverse effects of socioeconomic inequality may be crucial to break a self-perpetuation cycle of socio-economic adversity. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.1080/15283488.2020.1836491
ISSN:
1528-3488; 1532-706X
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