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Is Delayed Driving Licensure Associated With Emerging Adult Health, Education, and Employment?

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Purpose

Driving licensure remains a major developmental milestone for adolescents as they become more independent to access important health, education, and employment opportunities. Today, more teens are delaying driving licensure than before. We investigated associations of delayed licensure with health, education, and employment 4 years after high school.

Methods

We analyzed data from all seven annual assessments (W1-W7) of the NEXT Generation Health Study, a nationally representative cohort survey starting at 10th grade (W1, 2009-2010). The independent variable was delaying driving licensure (DDL [delaying ≥1 year] vs. No-DDL), defined as participants receiving driver licensure ≥1 year after the initial legal eligibility time until W7. Outcome variables were self-reported health, education, and employment at W7. Covariates included sex, race/ethnicity, family affluence, parental education, and urbanicity. Multinomial logistic regressions were conducted considering complex survey features.

Results

No-DDL versus DDL was associated with a higher likelihood of (1) excellent (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.06, p < .001), good (AOR = 1.74, p < .001), and fair (AOR = 1.34, p = .008) health compared with poor health; (2) completing a 4-year college or graduate school [AOR = 2.71, p < .001] and tech/community college [AOR = 1.92, p = .004] compared with high school or less; and (3) working ≥30 hours/week (AOR = 7.63, p = .011) and working <30 hours/week (AOR = 1.54, p = .016) compared with not working.

Discussion

Among emerging adults, no delay in driving licensure was associated with better self-reported health, higher education, and more working hours four years after leaving high school. Although earlier driving licensure increases driving exposure and risk, avoiding DDL appears to provide advantages for health, education, and employment during early adulthood.

SUBMITTER: Gao X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9038702 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Is Delayed Driving Licensure Associated With Emerging Adult Health, Education, and Employment?

Gao Xiang X Vaca Federico E FE Haynie Denise L DL Simons-Morton Bruce G BG Li Kaigang K

The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 20220305 5

<h4>Purpose</h4>Driving licensure remains a major developmental milestone for adolescents as they become more independent to access important health, education, and employment opportunities. Today, more teens are delaying driving licensure than before. We investigated associations of delayed licensure with health, education, and employment 4 years after high school.<h4>Methods</h4>We analyzed data from all seven annual assessments (W1-W7) of the NEXT Generation Health Study, a nationally represe ...[more]

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