Happiness Is the Way: Paths to Civic Engagement between Young Adulthood and Midlife

Autor/inn/en	Fang, Shichen; Galambos, Nancy L.; Johnson, Matthew D.; Krahn, Harvey J.
Titel	Happiness Is the Way: Paths to Civic Engagement between Young Adulthood and Midlife
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42 (2018) 4, S.425-433 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025417711056
Schlagwörter	Young Adults; Citizen Participation; Psychological Patterns; Longitudinal Studies; Marital Status; Parents; Unemployment; Age Differences; Foreign Countries; Statistical Analysis; Gender Differences; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Familienstand; Eltern; Arbeitslosigkeit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Ausland; Statistische Analyse; Geschlechterkonflikt; Kanada
Abstract	Directional associations between civic engagement and happiness were explored with longitudinal data from a community sample surveyed four times from age 22 to 43 (n = 690). Autoregressive cross-lagged models, controlling for cross-time stabilities in happiness and civic engagement, examined whether happiness predicted future civic engagement, civic engagement predicted future happiness, or the temporal ordering was bidirectional. Marital status, parental status, and recent unemployment experience were included as time-varying covariates of civic engagement, and analyses controlled for parent education, self-esteem, and self-rated physical health at age 18. Results indicated consistent cross-lagged associations from higher happiness to higher future civic engagement. There was no support for the path from civic engagement to future happiness, nor for bidirectional associations. Parenthood at age 22 predicted lower civic engagement, while parenthood at ages 32 and 43 predicted higher civic engagement. Recent unemployment experience was associated with less civic engagement at age 32 but more engagement at age 43, and marital status was linked with more civic engagement at age 43. Results support a broaden-and-build theoretical perspective in which happiness predicts future civic engagement across the transition to adulthood and into midlife. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01