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So Close, Yet So Far Away: The Impact of Varying Marital Horizons on Emerging Adulthood
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This article presents a marital horizon theory of emerging adulthood that posits that young people's perceptions of marriage are central factors in determining subgroup differences in the length of emerging adulthood as well as the specific behaviors that occur during this period in the family life cycle. The model was tested with a sample of 813 emerging adults who were recruited from six college sites across the country. Results demonstrated that there are significant differences between young people who have relatively close marital horizons (i.e., those who desire marriage in their early 20s) and those who have more distant marital horizons (i.e., those who desire marriage in their mid-20s or later) in the areas of substance use patterns, sexual permissiveness, and family formation values. Results suggest that changes in lifestyle patterns previously assumed to be associated with the transition to marriage may in fact be initiated when young people anticipate marriage in their near future.
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Students expecting to marry earlier are less likely to engage in sexually permissive behavior.
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- Authors
- Carroll, J. S., Willoughby, B., Badger, S., Nelson, L. J., McNamara Barry, C., & Madsen, S. D.
- Affiliations
- Brigham Young University (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore
- McDaniel College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Carroll, Jason S.
- Venue
- Journal of Adolescent Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-05
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 219-247
- ISSN
- 0743-5584 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-6895
- OpenAlex
- W1983196553
- Cited by
- 174
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 24.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Adolescent Research (publishedVersion)
- ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Keywords
- emerging adulthood, attitudes toward marriage, transition to marriage, family life cycle, substance use, sexual permissiveness, subgroup differences, university students
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