Dynamics of Adult Child-Mother Relationships in Emerging Adulthood by Gender and Race.

ABSTRACT: Despite the turbulence of emerging adulthood, past research has overlooked within-person heterogeneity in adult children's levels of contact and closeness with their mothers during this period. Research further obscures how such temporal relationship patterns may vary across sociodemographic categories. We identify unique trajectories of the adult child-mother relationship using Sequence Analysis on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979-Young Adult (NLSY79-YA) dataset (N=2,299). About one-third of mother-adult child dyads are characterized by consistently high levels of contact and closeness. The other two-thirds shift considerably over this life-course stage, with differences in trajectory distributions by gender and race. For example, White sons are the least likely to be

SUBMITTER: Thomeer MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12662455 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature