Adolescent home-leaving and the transition to adulthood: A psychosocial and behavioural study in the slums of Nairobi

Home-leaving is considered an important marker of the transition to adulthood and is usually framed as an individual decision. We move beyond this limited assumption to examine a broader conceptualization that might better illuminate home-leaving among youth in impoverished circumstances. We adopt t...

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Autores principales: Egondi, Thaddaeus, Kabiru, Caroline, Beguy, Donatien, Kanyiva, Muindi, Jessor, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24089582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025413479299
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author Egondi, Thaddaeus
Kabiru, Caroline
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description Home-leaving is considered an important marker of the transition to adulthood and is usually framed as an individual decision. We move beyond this limited assumption to examine a broader conceptualization that might better illuminate home-leaving among youth in impoverished circumstances. We adopt the Problem Behavior Theory-framework to investigate the association of home-leaving with behavioral and psychosocial variables and with other transitions. We use data on adolescents aged 14–22 years from a three-wave study conducted between 2007 and 2010. We used variable- and person-centered cross-sectional analyses, as well as predictive analysis of home-leaving by subsequent waves. Parental controls protection predicted home-leaving by subsequent waves. Overall, protective factors moderated the association of problem behavior involvement with leaving home in Nairobi’s slums.
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spelling pubmed-37852252013-09-30 Adolescent home-leaving and the transition to adulthood: A psychosocial and behavioural study in the slums of Nairobi Egondi, Thaddaeus Kabiru, Caroline Beguy, Donatien Kanyiva, Muindi Jessor, Richard Int J Behav Dev Article Home-leaving is considered an important marker of the transition to adulthood and is usually framed as an individual decision. We move beyond this limited assumption to examine a broader conceptualization that might better illuminate home-leaving among youth in impoverished circumstances. We adopt the Problem Behavior Theory-framework to investigate the association of home-leaving with behavioral and psychosocial variables and with other transitions. We use data on adolescents aged 14–22 years from a three-wave study conducted between 2007 and 2010. We used variable- and person-centered cross-sectional analyses, as well as predictive analysis of home-leaving by subsequent waves. Parental controls protection predicted home-leaving by subsequent waves. Overall, protective factors moderated the association of problem behavior involvement with leaving home in Nairobi’s slums. SAGE Publications 2013-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3785225/ /pubmed/24089582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025413479299 Text en © The Author(s) 2013 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Adolescent home-leaving and the transition to adulthood: A psychosocial and behavioural study in the slums of Nairobi
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24089582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025413479299
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