Growing up Fast: Stress Exposure and Subjective “Weathering” in Emerging Adulthood

Author:

Foster Holly1,Hagan John2,Brooks-Gunn Jeanne3

Affiliation:

1. Holly Foster is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. Her publications include “Incarceration and Intergenerational Social Exclusion” (with John Hagan) in Social Problems (2007) and “Puberty, Age, and Intimate Partner Violence Exposure in Adolescence” (with John Hagan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2004). Along with John Hagan she is a recipient of the ASA's Mental Health section Best Publication award (2005) for their...

2. John Hagan is John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University and Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He is recently the author of Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes at The Hague Tribunal (University of Chicago Press) and Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada (Harvard University Press), which received the Albert Reiss Distinguished Scholar Award. He is the co-author, with Alberto Palloni, of “Death in Darfur” in Science.

3. Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Dr. Brooks-Gunn's specialty is policy-oriented research focusing on family and community influences upon the development of children and youth. She also conducts research on transitional periods focusing on school, family and biological transitions in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Among her books on these topics are...

Abstract

We examine “subjective weathering” among females entering adulthood, using three waves of a national study. Subjective weathering is a social psychological component of aging that is associated with “physical weathering” previously observed in research on physical health. We examine the influence of stressors from childhood and adolescence on subjective weathering and depressive symptoms in emerging adulthood. Childhood abuse is associated with early menarche, as anticipated in research on physical weathering. Early menarche and child abuse are in turn associated with intimate partner violence exposure in adolescence. Both early menarche and intimate partner violence are associated with early parenthood and diminish the likelihood of high school graduation. These experiences culminate in subjective weathering associated with depressive symptoms in emerging adulthood. Our findings connect physical and subjective weathering within the stress process paradigm.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Social Psychology

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