Parental and adolescent health behaviors and pathways to adulthood.

ABSTRACT: This paper examines associations among parental and adolescent health behaviors and pathways to adulthood. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we identify a set of latent classes describing pathways into adulthood and examine health-related predictors of these pathways. The identified pathways are consistent with prior research using other sources of data. Results also show that both adolescent and parental health behaviors differentiate pathways. Parental and adolescent smoking are associated with lowered probability of the higher education pathway and higher likelihood of the work and the work & family pathways (entry into the workforce soon after high school completion). Adolescent drinking is positively associated with the work pathway and the

SUBMITTER: Bauldry S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4873711 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature