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Parental Residential and Partnering Transitions and the Initiation of Adolescent Romantic Relationships
Author(s) -
Ivanova Katya,
Mills Melinda,
Veenstra René
Publication year - 2014
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.12117
Subject(s) - romance , odds , psychology , cohabitation , developmental psychology , tracking (education) , quality (philosophy) , demography , social psychology , sociology , medicine , geography , logistic regression , pedagogy , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , psychoanalysis
This study focused on the possible links between parental residential and partnering transitions (a parent's move out of the household, introduction of a new maternal and paternal partner) and the initiation of romantic relationships in adolescence. Using data from a prospective cohort study of Dutch adolescents (the TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey; N = 1,513), recurrent event discrete‐time models with random effects were estimated, controlling for the initial family structure and quality of family climate. The results demonstrated that when all 3 events were considered, only the initiation of a new romantic relationship by the mother was associated with an increase in the odds of initiating a romantic relationship for the adolescent .

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