The Profundity of the Everyday: Family Routines in Adolescence Predict Development in Young Adulthood

Overview

Journal J Adolesc Health

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2018 Nov 6

PMID 30392861

Citations 9

Authors

Allen W Barton

Gene H Brody

Tianyi Yu

Steven M Kogan

Edith Chen

Katherine B Ehrlich

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Abstract

Purpose: The current study was designed to investigate the unique, long-term effects of family routines during adolescence on multiple developmental domains in young adulthood for rural African-Americans.

Methods: Prospective data were collected annually for 6 years from 504 rural African-American youth and their parents, beginning when the youth were 16 years of age.

Results: Results indicated that youth whose primary caregivers reported more family routines during adolescence (e.g., regularly eating together as a family, consistent bedtime) reported less alcohol use, greater emotional self-regulation, lower epinephrine levels, and higher rates of college/university enrollment in young adulthood. These effects were evident for all outcomes controlling for socioeconomic risk, sex, and available baseline (age 16 years) measures; for a subset of outcomes, the effects of family routines persisted even after taking into account levels of supportive parenting, harsh parenting, and household chaos.

Conclusions: Findings substantiate the benefits of consistent, predictable family environments for healthy development and suggest that family routines constitute an important, yet understudied, factor for adolescents' long-term development.

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