Cohabitation dissolution and psychological distress among young adults: The role of parenthood and gender.

ABSTRACT: Cohabitation has become a normative experience for American young adults and a common setting for childbearing in recent decades. However, the high dissolution rate of cohabitation exposes young adults to the potential stress of intimate relationship dissolution and single parenthood during early adulthood. Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we apply growth curve models to analyze how cohabitation dissolution associates with trajectories of depressive symptoms and binge drinking behaviors for young adults (aged 17 to 35). We investigate how the presence of children moderates this association for men and women. We find that cohabitation dissolution is associated with increased depressive symptoms for both men and women. However, cohabitation dissolution is

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10838570 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature