Latinx college students’ transition to adulthood: The intersections of childhood economic pressure, enculturation, and familism

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2021-05

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Much of the extant research on young adulthood focuses on college-attending, White, 18- to 29-year-olds, however, Hispanic and Latino/a/x origin college students account for 20% of post-secondary enrollment. Those studies that do use Latinx samples often use a deficit model to investigate behavior and experiences. Research must better attend to the unique and normative experiences of Latinx young adults. This study uses a theoretically informed model to examine the intersections of enculturation, familism, gender, and retrospective childhood economic pressure on college-attending Latinx young adults’ ratings on the Markers of Adulthood (MoA) and Inventory of the Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood (IDEA). Data were collected via web-based self-reports from 342 respondents and analyzed using structural equation modeling. The findings indicate that the cultural constructs of enculturation and familism do influence Latinx college-attending young adults’ ratings on the IDEA and MoA; however, gender and retrospective childhood economic pressure were not significant factors.


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Young Adult, Emerging Adult, Latino/A, Hispanic, Latinx, Familism, Enculturation, Childhood Economic Pressure, College

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