Past, present, and future dimensions of socioeconomic status and sexual self-efficacy of young women during the transition into adulthood

Cha, Hyungmin

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115128

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“…The sense of agency that lies behind the concept of intangible identity capital is understood as the possession of a sense of responsibility for one's life course, a sense of control of one's life decisions and responsibility for their outcomes, coupled with the feeling of confidence that one will be able to overcome the difficulties and successfully face the challenges inherent to the path of transition to adulthood 21,30,48,52,[61][62]65,67 . The empirical operationalization of this sense of agency has been implemented throughout the last two decades by the use of a composite measure that integrates specific measures of self-esteem, purpose in life, ego strength, and internal locus of control 24,64,65 .…”

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Paths to Adult Identity Resolution – At the Intersection of Agency and Structure: A Differential Study Among Portuguese Emerging Adults

Oliveira

Fontaine

2023

MRAJ

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In contemporary Western individualized societies, both positive psychology and identity capital theory have identified a set of psychosocial assets indispensable for the negotiation of opportunities and risks inherent to the process of transition to adulthood. From among the various identity capital resources, this study focuses on agentic capacities, as one of the most valuable due to their motivational power, and school trajectories, as a powerful structural determinant of transition to adulthood trajectories. In order to better understand the anticipation of adult roles, two studies were carried out aiming to (1) observe differences in agentic capacities (measured by their levels of self-efficacy beliefs, expectations of success concerning the performance of adult roles, and exploration of worldviews and adult roles) and adult identity resolution according to the youths’ level of education; (2) assess the predictive power of youths’ agentic capacities in adult identity resolution, examining possible variations according to the level of education. Differences according to level of education were found regarding identity resolution with less educated youths evidencing higher levels of adult identity resolution. As far as the predictive power of agentic capacities over identity resolution is concerned, it was observed that the type and amount of identity capital that is relevant for the acquisition of a sense of adult maturity varies according to educational level of emerging adults.

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Paths to Adult Identity Resolution – At the Intersection of Agency and Structure: A Differential Study Among Portuguese Emerging Adults

Oliveira

Fontaine

2023

MRAJ

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What Explains Socioeconomic Disparities in Early Pregnancy Rates?

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Weitzman

2022

Social Forces

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In this study, we integrate diverse structural, social psychological, and relational perspectives to develop and test a comprehensive framework of the processes that make early pregnancy a socially stratified phenomenon. Drawing on rich panel data collected among a sample of 940 18- to 20-year-old women from a county in Michigan, we estimate nested hazard models and formal mediation analyses to simultaneously elucidate the extent to which different mechanisms explain disparities in early pregnancy rates across maternal education levels—a key indicator of socioeconomic status. Together, our distal mechanisms explain 53 and 31 percent of the difference in pregnancy rates between young women whose mothers graduated college and young women whose mothers graduated and did not graduate high school, respectively. Reproductive desires, norms, and attitudes, relationship contexts, and educational opportunities and environment each link maternal education to young women’s odds of pregnancy. Self-efficacy, however, plays only a modest role; while contraceptive affordability and knowledge are not significant pathways. These findings bring into focus the most prominent intervening mechanisms through which socioeconomic circumstances shape young women’s likelihood of becoming pregnant during the transition to adulthood.

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Past, present, and future dimensions of socioeconomic status and sexual self-efficacy of young women during the transition into adulthood

Cited by 2 publications

References 64 publications

Paths to Adult Identity Resolution – At the Intersection of Agency and Structure: A Differential Study Among Portuguese Emerging Adults

Paths to Adult Identity Resolution – At the Intersection of Agency and Structure: A Differential Study Among Portuguese Emerging Adults

What Explains Socioeconomic Disparities in Early Pregnancy Rates?

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