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Journal Article
Taking hold of some kind of life: How developmental tasks relate to trajectories of well-being during the transition to adulthood
2004
Overview
The purpose of this study was to examine how successes and
difficulties with various developmental tasks of early adulthood relate
to the course of well-being. Three waves of national panel data
spanning ages 18–26 were drawn from the Monitoring the Future
study (N = 3518). Based on self-reports, respondents were
assigned scores (succeeding, maintaining, or stalling) to reflect
progress in seven domains of developmental tasks: education, work,
financial autonomy, romantic involvement, peer involvement, substance
abuse avoidance, and citizenship. We identified trajectory groups of
well-being (based on self-esteem, self-efficacy, and social support)
that reflect diverging trajectories during the transition:
steady–high versus high–decreasing, and
low–increasing versus steady–low. Logistic regression
analyses were conducted to predict membership in the diverging
well-being trajectory groups as a function of developmental task domain
scores. Maintaining or gaining a salutary trajectory of well-being
across the transition was found to be a function of more success and
less stalling across the developmental tasks, specifically in the work,
romantic involvement, and citizenship domains. Compensatory effects
(e.g., succeeding in education compensated for not succeeding in work)
and threshold effects (e.g., succeeding in both achievement and
affiliation domains was necessary for a salutary trajectory) were also
found.This study was supported in part
by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA01411). The
authors thank Dante Cicchetti, Kate Fiori, Jennifer Maggs, Wayne
Osgood, and Arnold Sameroff for helpful comments and suggestions and
Ginny Laetz and Tanya Hart for assistance with the preparation of this
article.
