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Intergenerational mobility3/19/2023 We provide a large-scale test of the relationship between intergenerational mobility and midlife life satisfaction using data from two prospective UK studies (N = 20,948). It is often assumed that experiencing an upward shift in social position from one generation to the next will provide happiness, yet empirical evidence demonstrating such a connection is limited. The results support the existence of emerging adulthood in Greece and indicate diverse paths to adulthood within the rather homogeneous population of studying youth in this country. Significant between-profile differentiation was found regarding all variables except from age and work experience. Latent profile analysis yielded five profiles: anxious explorers in-between (29.90%), immature explorers (29.58%), emerging adults (18.30%), adult committers (12.58%), and blocked in transition (9.64%). Participants were 814 university students (Mage = 19.9 years). Using a person-centered approach, the current study aimed to examine dimensions of emerging adulthood, criteria for adulthood, and identity development among studying youth in association with personal and structural variables (i.e., gender, age, living arrangement, work experience, steady romantic relationship status, and financial adversity). Little research has been conducted on emerging adulthood in Greece, although sociodemographic specificities and constraints due to financial crisis are expected to reinforce prolonged transition to adulthood in this Southern European country. In light of these findings, positive psychological hope interventions may prove instrumental in the promotion of positive youth development under crisis, facilitating well-being and flourishing in emerging adulthood.KeywordsCrisisIncomeHopeParental involvementEmerging adulthood Available family and personal income was clearly associated with the way young people experienced the crisis, while paternal socio-economic status was involved in the way emerging adults recollected their parents’ school involvement and experienced hope. Overall, recollected parental school involvement was the strongest predictor of youths’ hope, even though the perceived effects of the crisis predicted both hope and parental involvement. Positive associations were found between (a) available personal income, socio-economic background, and high parental school involvement, and participant and parental hope (b) available personal and family income, and emerging adults’ experience of the severity of the crisis (c) perception of the crisis and youths’ hope, along with their perceptions of parental hope and (d) recollected parental school involvement, and emerging adults’ hope. The questionnaire battery included demographics, participant and family income, perceived impact of the crisis, parental involvement, and hope. Participants were 468 young females and males, mostly university students, but also graduates. ![]() It highlights intergenerational echoes at the level of the economic antecedents of the crisis, recollected parental school involvement, and perceived parental hope. This survey studies hope in emerging adulthood during the Greek socio-economic crisis. Lastly, the two modes of questionnaire assessment were found to be equivalent, a finding that can facilitate research in other trying times, such as health pandemics. The implications of these findings on educational, mental health and other types of interventions are discussed. Parental involvement mediated the relation between social mobility and flourishing, while the impact of the socio-economic crisis mediated the relationship among mobility, flourishing, and quality of life in emerging adulthood. Intergenerational mobility was significantly, and positively associated with youth well-being. The results revealed upward educational mobility across three generations. The questionnaire assessed demographics, including information about educational levels for youths, parents and grandparents of both genders, and income (for the former two), flourishing and quality of life, as well as parental involvement, and the impact of the crisis on youths. 468 female and male University students and graduates completed a questionnaire battery, using two different modes: pen-and-pencil and online. This study examines educational and income mobility across generations, its relations with emerging adults’ well-being, and the impact of interpersonal and contextual factors on this relationship, such as parental school involvement and the recent severe socio-economic crisis in Greece. Intergenerational social mobility and its associations with youth well-being has scarcely been examined in Greece.
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