TY - JOUR
T1 - Anticipating their future
T2 - Adolescent values for the future predict adult behaviors
AU - Finlay, Andrea K.
AU - Wray-Lake, Laura
AU - Warren, Michael
AU - Maggs, Jennifer
N1 - Funding Information:
Preparation of this manuscript was supported in part by a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (grant number AA019606). Andrea Finlay was supported in part by VA Office of Academic Affairs and Health Services Research and Development research funds. The funding sources played no role in study design, collection, analysis, interpretation, writing of the report, nor in the decision to submit for publication. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position nor policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or the United States government.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2014.
PY - 2015/7/5
Y1 - 2015/7/5
N2 - Adolescent future values - beliefs about what will matter to them in the future - may shape their adult behavior. Utilizing a national longitudinal British sample, this study examined whether adolescent future values in six domains (i.e., family responsibility, full-time job, personal responsibility, autonomy, civic responsibility, and hedonistic privilege) predicted adult social roles, civic behaviors, and alcohol use. Future values positively predicted behaviors within the same domain; fewer cross-domain associations were evident. Civic responsibility positively predicted adult civic behaviors, but negatively predicted having children. Hedonistic privilege positively predicted adult alcohol use and negatively predicted civic behaviors. Results suggest that attention should be paid to how adolescents are thinking about their futures due to the associated links with long-term social and health behaviors.
AB - Adolescent future values - beliefs about what will matter to them in the future - may shape their adult behavior. Utilizing a national longitudinal British sample, this study examined whether adolescent future values in six domains (i.e., family responsibility, full-time job, personal responsibility, autonomy, civic responsibility, and hedonistic privilege) predicted adult social roles, civic behaviors, and alcohol use. Future values positively predicted behaviors within the same domain; fewer cross-domain associations were evident. Civic responsibility positively predicted adult civic behaviors, but negatively predicted having children. Hedonistic privilege positively predicted adult alcohol use and negatively predicted civic behaviors. Results suggest that attention should be paid to how adolescents are thinking about their futures due to the associated links with long-term social and health behaviors.
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U2 - 10.1177/0165025414544231
DO - 10.1177/0165025414544231
M3 - Article
C2 - 26279595
AN - SCOPUS:84930388540
SN - 0165-0254
VL - 39
SP - 359
EP - 367
JO - International Journal of Behavioral Development
JF - International Journal of Behavioral Development
IS - 4
ER -
