Which Event Matters: Exploring the Relationship between Life Events, Socioeconomic Status and Psychological Distress in Mothers of Infants

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annemarie Nicol
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Life Events ◽  
The Relationship

INTERVENING PROCESSES BETWEEN ADOLESCENT DRUG USE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE SELF-MEDICATION HYPOTHESIS

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Damphousse ◽  
Howard B. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
The Self ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Deviant Peers ◽  
Self Medication ◽  
Adolescent Drug Use ◽  
The Relationship

The self-medication hypothesis suggests that individuals who experience high levels of psychological distress use drugs to relieve their pain. The extent to which this is the case (and to which people do feel better after using drugs) has had mixed support in the literature. The present analysis uses structural equation modeling of longitudinal data to explore how deviant disposition, deviant peers, and negative life events act as intervening variables in the hypothesized relationship between psychological distress and adolescent drug use. The results suggest that deviant disposition and association with deviant peers mediate the relationship between antecedent psychological distress and later drug use. Similarly, negative life events mediate the relationship between adolescent drug use and adult psychological distress.

What Alters the Experience of Emerging Adulthood? How the Experience of Emerging Adulthood Differs According to Socioeconomic Status and Critical Life Events

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Landberg ◽  
Bora Lee ◽  
Peter Noack
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Critical Life Events ◽  
Life Phase ◽  
The Relationship

The present mixed-methods study examined the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and the experience of emerging adulthood (EA). In Study 1, the associations among SES, EA, and critical life events (CLEs) were explored. CLEs were examined as a mediator between SES and EA in a German sample ( N = 3,269). Participants’ educational attainment, SES, and occupation-related prestige were associated with the experience of EA. For example, lower SES was associated with higher perceived instability, with more experienced CLEs mediating this relationship. Lower SES was associated with a higher number of CLEs, which, for example, was related to more focus on others. In Study 2, interview data from emerging adults with low educational attainment who were engaged in vocational training ( N = 12) were analyzed. In addition to reporting many CLEs, themes regarding their perception of their current life phase were established, indicating that low-SES youth experience aspects of EA as well.

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