How Supportive of Their "Specific" Purposes Do Youth Believe Their Family and Friends Are?

Autor/inn/en	Moran, Seana; Bundick, Matthew J.; Malin, Heather; Reilly, Timothy S.
Titel	How Supportive of Their "Specific" Purposes Do Youth Believe Their Family and Friends Are?
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent Research, 28 (2013) 3, S.348-377 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-5584
DOI	10.1177/0743558412457816
Schlagwörter	Family (Sociological Unit); Friendship; Social Support Groups; Youth; Age Differences; Futures (of Society); Ethnicity; Gender Differences; Aspiration; Social Structure; Interpersonal Relationship; Prosocial Behavior; High School Students; Surveys; Statistical Analysis; Intention; Student Attitudes; Role Perception; Middle School Students; College Students; Semi Structured Interviews; California; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Tennessee + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familie; Freundschaft; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Future; Society; Zukunft; Ethnizität; Geschlechterkonflikt; Streben; Sozialstruktur; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Statistische Analyse; Schülerverhalten; Role conception; Rollenverständnis; Middle school; Middle schools; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Collegestudent; Kalifornien
Abstract	Prior studies have found that youth reporting a general sense that "I have a purpose" also describe having social supports that enhance thriving. This study links "specific" social supports to "specific" purposes described by youth. We examined whether developmental level, social-structural supports of gender and ethnicity, and close relationship supports of family and friends explained (a) how likely youth were to describe three dimensions of a specific purpose content (intention, engagement, and beyond-the-self reasons), and (b) how youth with specified purposes used social supports to pursue those purposes. Youth in higher grade levels were more likely to describe their future plans, activities that pursued those plans, and reasons that considered consequences to others as well as themselves. Non-White ethnicity and higher friend support also increased the likelihood of youth expressing future plans. Youth with purposes sought or created--then integrated into a tailored support network--"purpose-specific" benefits from their families, opportunities to engage, and institutions. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10