Age norms, family relationships, and home leaving in Italy

Tosi, Marco

doi:10.4054/demres.2017.36.9

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“…First, our sample mean age was 17.74 years old. Given that the mean age of leaving home in urban areas of Turkey is 23.3 years old (Koç 2007), adolescents may consider the year after high school graduation as too early to move out and they may adhere to the age norms for leaving home (Tosi 2017). Thus, with an older sample we may find a higher percentage of motivated individuals.…”

Section: Motivation To Leave Home After High Schoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motivation to leave home during the transition to emerging adulthood among Turkish adolescents

Akın

Breeman

Branje

2020

Journal of Youth Studies

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Although the age of leaving home has increased during the past few decades, senior year in high school remains a significant period during which many adolescents consider moving out, especially to attend university. However, the role of personal, practical and familial factors on adolescents' motivation to leave home prior to the actual transition are still unknown. The current study investigated adolescents' motivation to leave home while they still lived with their parents and its association with adolescentreported personal and practical circumstances, and parent-child relationship quality. Participants were 558 Turkish senior high school students (62% female), all living with their parents in Istanbul, Turkey. Results showed that just above one third of the adolescents (38%) wanted to leave home after high school. Boys, adolescents from high SES and nonintact families were more likely to be motivated to leave home. Satisfaction with living situation, parental support for home-leaving, and importance of practical and personal circumstances influenced adolescents' motivation to leave home. The adolescent-mother relationship was differently related to adolescents' motivation compared to the adolescentfather relationship. Conflict with both parents, but only fathers' warmth was associated with motivation to leave home above and beyond all practical and personal circumstances.

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Section: Motivation To Leave Home After High Schoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motivation to leave home during the transition to emerging adulthood among Turkish adolescents

Akın

Breeman

Branje

2020

Journal of Youth Studies

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“…The role of parents is apparent in contexts with the custom of arranged marriage where parents themselves play a dominant role in contracting the marriages of their children. However, parents play an important role in children's marriage even in contexts with considerable youthful autonomy, such as Italy and the United States (Thornton et al, 2008; Tosi, ). Parents' attitudes likely influence children's marriage in a variety of ways.…”

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“…Others used panel data to more rigorously assess the influence of timing attitudes. Most notably, Tosi () found that age norms influence when young people in Italy leave their parental home as a result of marriage or other reasons. Specifically, young Italians living with their parents who thought they were too young to leave home were more likely to still be living with their parents 4 years later, rather than having left home for marriage or other reasons.…”

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Early Women, Late Men: Timing Attitudes and Gender Differences in Marriage

Allendorf

Thornton

Mitchell

et al. 2017

J of Marriage and Family

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Around the world, women marry earlier than men, but it is not well understood why this gender gap exists. Using panel data collected in Nepal, the authors investigate whether attitudes about marital timing held by unmarried youth and their parents account for women marrying earlier than men. They also examine whether the influence of timing attitudes differs by gender. On average, unmarried youth and their parents viewed 20 to 25 as acceptable ages for women to marry, while ages 23 to 30 were appropriate for men. In turn, women entering the acceptable marriage age range earlier than men accounted for a third of the gender gap in marital timing. The influence of youth and parents’ timing attitudes did differ by gender, but only at the extreme. When they were much too young for marriage, both genders were less likely to marry, but this dampening effect was substantially larger for women.

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“…There has been increasing interest in recent years in the study of transitions in young people and the adaptation of their normative expectations to the structural determinants of the socio-economic environment [50]. Numerous frameworks for interpretation have sought to analyse the youth condition through the lens of the concept of transition.…”

Section: Towards a Plural Theoretical Model That Integrates Generatiomentioning

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The Generational Dimension in Transitions: A Theoretical Review

Mínguez

Urraco

2018

Societies

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The aim of this article is to question the notions of 'generation' and 'transitions' from a theoretical perspective by making a brief historical incursion into the sociology of generations. This review will explore the latest ideas on youth transitions to establish theoretical bridges between the different authors, and between the classic and modern approaches. It also takes a deeper look at an emerging theoretical model that seeks to connect these two important issues, transitions and the notion of generation. The debate focuses on how youth transitions are conceptualised from a micro perspective as individual and individualised processes, underlining the idea that they are based on specific macro concepts of 'youth' in generational terms. The concept of social generation allows the micro aspects of transitions to be associated with the historical situation in which they occur. This theoretical approach proposes that young people's transitional behaviours are subject to the mechanisms of intergenerational change, but also notes that transitions can be differentiated according to the position they occupy in the social structure. In summary, this article supports the idea that youth transitions are different in their manifestations, although they may have a similar generational basis. The aim is therefore to introduce a broader theoretical view that includes the predecessors and successors of the classics, and serves as a point of departure for an approach designed to understand the formats of the new 'youth status', and hence, offer a more accurate scientific explanation for examining the overworked notions of generation and transition.

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Age norms, family relationships, and home leaving in Italy

Cited by 29 publications

References 48 publications

Motivation to leave home during the transition to emerging adulthood among Turkish adolescents

Motivation to leave home during the transition to emerging adulthood among Turkish adolescents

Early Women, Late Men: Timing Attitudes and Gender Differences in Marriage

The Generational Dimension in Transitions: A Theoretical Review

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