Late Adolescent Predictors of Homelessness and Food Insecurity During Emerging Adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Economic instability is a significant and growing problem among emerging adults in the U.S. This study identifies adolescent factors across multiple levels of influence that predict homelessness and food insecurity 5 years later.

Methods

The analytic sample (n = 2,110) completed a survey in 2015-2016 (mean age 17) that assessed a range of demographic, behavioral health, family, peer, academic, and neighborhood factors, and a follow-up survey in 2019-2020 (mean age 23) that assessed past-year homelessness and food insecurity. Logistic regression analyses were conducted for the full sample, and by race/ethnicity.

Results

At follow-up, 7.5% of participants reported homelessness, and 29.3% reported food insecurity. Multivariate analyses indicated that only adverse

SUBMITTER: Tucker JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9038616 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature