Early Pubertal Timing and the Union Formation Behaviors of Young Women

Autor/in	Cavanagh, Shannon E.
Titel	Early Pubertal Timing and the Union Formation Behaviors of Young Women
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 89 (2011) 4, S.1217-1238 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
Schlagwörter	Females; Marriage; Adolescents; Developmental Stages; Puberty; Interpersonal Relationship; Advantaged; Socioeconomic Status; Intimacy; Correlation; Age Differences; Race; Ethnicity; Grade Point Average; Physiology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Ehe; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Pubertät; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Intimität; Korrelation; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnizität; Physiologie
Abstract	This study examined whether the transition into adolescence, proxied by pubertal timing, shaped the transition into adulthood, proxied by union formation behaviors, among contemporary American women. In a sample drawn from Add Health (n = 7,523), early maturing girls reported an accelerated transition to marriage and cohabitation in young adulthood, net of family structure history, academic achievement in high school, and parental education. The link between pubertal timing and cohabitation was strongest among socioeconomically advantaged women; no socioeconomic differences were identified for marriage. The tendency for early maturers to have more pronounced romantic orientations during adolescence partially explained their transitions to marriage. In all, the persistence of the pubertal timing effect into young adulthood suggests that early maturers accelerated entrance into the romantic market in adolescence has a cascading, long-term impact on the shape of their lives in young adulthood. (Contains 5 tables, 1 figure, and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10