Growing up Faster, Feeling Older: Hardship in Childhood and Adolescence

Autor/inn/en	Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick; Mollborn, Stefanie
Titel	Growing up Faster, Feeling Older: Hardship in Childhood and Adolescence
Quelle	In: Social Psychology Quarterly, 72 (2009) 1, S.39-60 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0190-2725
DOI	10.1177/019027250907200105
Schlagwörter	Social Psychology; Adolescents; Neighborhoods; Poverty; Violence; Family Characteristics; Self Concept; Individual Development; Maturity (Individuals); National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialpsychologie; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Armut; Gewalt; Selbstkonzept; Individuelle Entwicklung; Reifung
Abstract	We examine whether hardship while growing up shapes subjective age identity, as well as three types of experiences through which it may occur. Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we find that hardship in several domains during childhood and adolescence is associated with feeling relatively older and self-identifying as an adult in the late teens and twenties. Specifically, young people who as adolescents felt unsafe in their schools or neighborhoods, witnessed or were victims of violence, had fewer economic resources in the household, and lived in certain family structures, reported older subjective ages (by one or both measures). We find no evidence that hardship's association with subjective age is mediated by work responsibilities in adolescence or by anticipating a very curtailed life span, but entering adult roles earlier mediates or partially mediates many of these relationships. (Contains 1 figure, 2 tables and 8 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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