2009/01/01 by Jeylan T. Mortimer, Minzee Kim, Jeremy Staff +3 · 3 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Business, Innovation, and Economy #Employment and Welfare Studies #Retirement, Disability, and Employment #Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
paper · doi:10.1177/0730888416656904
openalex publication_date 2009/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Youth unemployment reduces the capacity to achieve diverse markers of adulthood, potentially undermining the young adult's sense of confidence and independence. While parents often come to the aid of their unemployed young adult children, such support may also have negative psychological repercussions. Applying a hierarchical modeling strategy to longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study, we find that both unemployment and parental financial support have negative consequences for youth's self-efficacy. These common experiences may thus diminish youth's personal psychological resources as they make the increasingly lengthy and precarious transition to adulthood.