Young adults' work-family life courses and mental health trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood: a TRAILS study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Work-family life courses have been associated with mental health at various time points in life but little is known about how mental health develops during these work-family life courses. The aim of this study was to examine mental health trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood in women and men with different work-family life courses.

Methods

Data from 992 young adults participating in the 18-year follow-up TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS) were used. Work-family life courses from ages 18 to 28 years were previously constructed using sequence analysis. For each work-family life course, trajectories of internalising and externalising problems from ages 11 to 29 years were estimated using a multi-group random intercept growth model. Differ

SUBMITTER: Machu V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11522154 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature