“…Family functioning, understood as a set of processes by which a family meets basic needs, makes decisions, establish rules, and defines goals (Lanigan, 2009), was selected for this study because it constitutes a whole-level family variable, describing overall family relationships, dynamics, and the quality of family life. We address the future hopes and fears across six life domains found salient in the future orientation of Portuguese emerging adults (Fonseca et al, 2018): education, work/career, family/marriage, property, autonomy and stability, and financial resources. Fonseca et al (2018) also demonstrated that sex, age, and occupational status played a role in the salience of specific life domains, while additional research (Massey et al, 2008) stressed the influence of family socioeconomic status (SES) in the content of future thinking, suggesting, for instance, that adolescents of low SES reported fewer educational aspirations and emphasized materialistic goals in greater extent.…”