title: Unemployment, Parental Help, and Self-Efficacy During the Transition to Adulthood.
abstract: Youth unemployment reduces the capacity to achieve diverse markers of adulthood, potentially undermining the young adult's sense of confidence and independence. While parents often come to the aid of their unemployed young adult children, such support may also have negative psychological repercussions. Applying a hierarchical modeling strategy to longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study, we find that both unemployment and parental financial support have negative consequences for youth's self-efficacy. These common experiences may thus diminish youth's personal psychological resources as they make the increasingly lengthy and precarious transition to adulthood.
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Jeylan T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Mortimer
authors.affiliation: Ewha Womans University.
authors.forename: Minzee
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Staff
authors.affiliation: Ohio State University.
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vuolo
keywords: efficacy; parent-young adult relationships; transition to adulthood; unemployment