Premium
Race/Ethnicity, Attitudes, and Living With Parents During Young Adulthood
Author(s) -
Britton Marcus L.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/jomf.12042
Subject(s) - ethnic group , socioeconomic status , young adult , marital status , race (biology) , demography , psychology , racial differences , white (mutation) , national longitudinal surveys , educational attainment , national survey of family growth , gerontology , developmental psychology , medicine , sociology , gender studies , population , family planning , biochemistry , chemistry , anthropology , economics , demographic economics , gene , research methodology , economic growth
Non‐White young adults are more likely to live with their parents throughout their 20s, more likely to return home after going away to college, and less likely to leave again after returning. Scholars have speculated that subcultural differences in attitudes toward marriage and family play a key role in generating racial/ethnic differences in rates of coresidence with parents among young adults. Data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey of 1988 ( N = 11,228) were analyzed in order to test this hypothesis. Attitudes toward marriage and family were significantly associated with coresidence, especially among young men, but did not substantially account for racial/ethnic differences in living arrangements. Among young non‐White women and young Black men, higher rates of coresidence were related to differences from Whites in socioeconomic or marital status (and sometimes both) that were largely independent of differences in attitudes toward marriage and family .