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Coresidence and Parent-Adult Child Closeness and Conflict: The Influence of Social Class, Parenting Strategies and Economic Efficacy

Lang, Vanessa Wanner
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1447965764

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2015, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Sociology.
Using data from the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) this study used two sets of analyses to explore both closeness and conflict between parents and adult children (n=878). This study had three primary goals: (1) to understand how returning to and never leaving the parental home as a young adult influenced parent-adult child relationships; (2) to assess how parenting strategies (i.e., support and monitoring) mediated associations between social class and parent-adult child relationships; and (3) to explore whether economic efficacy (i.e., the perception that the young adult is financially confident about his or her future) mediated the relationship between social class and parent-adult child relationships. Regarding the first research goal, I found that returning to the parental home, compared with living independently, was associated with greater conflict, but was not associated significantly with parental closeness. In addition, staying in the parental home was associated with more conflict compared with living independently. Regarding the second research goal, parental support mediated the relationship between social class and parental closeness. Young adults from more, compared with less, affluent backgrounds reported higher levels of parental support and subsequently higher levels of closeness. Although monitoring of adolescents was related to less conflict, monitoring did not mediate associations between social class and parental conflict. Finally, economic efficacy mediated the relationship between social class and parental closeness. Young adults from more affluent backgrounds had higher levels of economic efficacy and subsequently greater closeness with parents compared with less affluent young adults.
Monica Longmore (Advisor)
Wendy Manning (Committee Member)
Peggy Giordano (Committee Member)
52 p.
Families and Family Life; Sociology
parent-adult child relationships; young adults; social class; parenting strategies; economic efficacy; Millennial generation; living with parents in young adulthood; Toledo Adolescent Relationship Study

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  • Lang, V. W. (2015). Coresidence and Parent-Adult Child Closeness and Conflict: The Influence of Social Class, Parenting Strategies and Economic Efficacy [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1447965764

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lang, Vanessa. Coresidence and Parent-Adult Child Closeness and Conflict: The Influence of Social Class, Parenting Strategies and Economic Efficacy . 2015. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1447965764.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lang, Vanessa. "Coresidence and Parent-Adult Child Closeness and Conflict: The Influence of Social Class, Parenting Strategies and Economic Efficacy ." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1447965764

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