Table 2.
Multivariate Logistic Regression Models of the Timing of Moving Out of and Back into the Parental Home: Transition to Adulthood Study, 2005–2011
| Independent Variable | Moving out
|
Moving back
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | s.e. | eb | b | s.e. | eb | |
| Demographic characteristics | ||||||
| Age | ||||||
| 18 (reference) | ||||||
| 19 | −.18 | .18 | .83 | −.08 | .27 | .92 |
| 20 | −.20 | .19 | .82 | −.39 | .26 | .67 |
| 21 | −.13 | .22 | .88 | −.21 | .29 | .81 |
| 22 | .04 | .25 | 1.04 | −.55† | .29 | .57 |
| 23 | −.02 | .31 | .98 | −1.33*** | .38 | .27 |
| 24 | −.07 | .36 | .93 | −1.46*** | .41 | .23 |
| 25 | −2.03† | 1.12 | .13 | −2.02† | 1.07 | .13 |
| Female | .22† | .12 | 1.25 | −.08 | .15 | .93 |
| Race | ||||||
| White (reference) | ||||||
| Black | .03 | .16 | 1.03 | .18 | .20 | 1.20 |
| Hispanic or other races | .17 | .20 | 1.18 | .45† | .25 | 1.57 |
| Life-course transitions | ||||||
| Primary activity transitions | ||||||
| High school to college (reference) | .69 | .60 | 2.00 | |||
| Stable college student (reference) | −.87*** | .24 | .42 | |||
| Stable working | −1.29*** | .23 | .27 | .60* | .24 | 1.81 |
| Stable idle | −1.48*** | .33 | .23 | 1.35*** | .37 | 3.87 |
| Student to working | −1.37*** | .23 | .26 | .43† | .23 | 1.54 |
| Student/working to idle | −1.11*** | .27 | .33 | .38 | .31 | 1.46 |
| Working/idle to student | −1.31*** | .26 | .27 | .54† | .29 | 1.72 |
| Idle to working | −.90** | .29 | .41 | .60† | .33 | 1.82 |
| Relationship status transitions | ||||||
| Stable non-partnered (reference) | ||||||
| Newly partnered | 1.14*** | .17 | 3.13 | −.31 | .21 | .74 |
| Partnership dissolution | .55 | .33 | 1.73 | −.03 | .28 | .97 |
| Stable partnered | 1.61*** | .26 | 4.98 | −1.27*** | .27 | .28 |
| Parenthood | .37* | .18 | 1.45 | −.06 | .21 | .94 |
| Socioeconomic resources | ||||||
| High school graduation or GED | .13 | .20 | 1.14 | −.36 | .26 | .70 |
| Income | .07 | .06 | 1.08 | .07 | .07 | 1.07 |
| Receiving welfare | −.24 | .27 | .79 | .14 | .40 | 1.15 |
| Parental household and family characteristics | ||||||
| Household structure | ||||||
| Intact family (reference) | ||||||
| Biological and step parent | .13 | .20 | 1.14 | −.61* | .27 | .54 |
| Non-partnered biological parent | −.14 | .16 | .87 | .05 | .20 | 1.05 |
| Mother’s education | .09** | .03 | 1.09 | −.05 | .04 | .95 |
| Family income | .00 | .09 | 1.00 | −.07 | .11 | .94 |
| Homeowner | −.21 | .15 | .81 | .14 | .20 | 1.15 |
| Coresident adult siblings | −.13 | .10 | .88 | .44*** | .12 | 1.56 |
| Family connectivity | ||||||
| Help from family | .18** | .06 | 1.19 | −.00 | .07 | 1.00 |
| Personal responsibility scale | .34*** | .07 | 1.40 | −.18* | .08 | .84 |
| Closeness to mother | −.11* | .05 | .90 | .11† | .06 | 1.11 |
| Closeness to father | −.01 | .03 | .99 | −.01 | .04 | .99 |
| Mother or father in poor health | −.01 | .15 | .99 | .37* | .19 | 1.45 |
| Respondent in poor health | .01 | .21 | 1.01 | −.25 | .28 | .78 |
| Physical victimization | .65* | .26 | 1.91 | −.23 | .30 | .80 |
| Sexual victimization | −.07 | .47 | .93 | 1.47** | .47 | 4.35 |
| Temporal and geographic context | ||||||
| Year of observation | ||||||
| 2005 (reference) | ||||||
| 2007 | −.39* | .16 | .68 | .34 | .22 | 1.40 |
| 2009 | −.47** | .15 | .63 | .65** | .22 | 1.91 |
| Urbanization scale | −.03 | .03 | .97 | .02 | .03 | 1.02 |
| Region | ||||||
| Northeast (reference) | ||||||
| North Central | .52** | .20 | 1.68 | −.25 | .25 | .78 |
| South | .25 | .19 | 1.28 | −.06 | .23 | .94 |
| West | .32 | .22 | 1.38 | −.19 | .27 | .83 |
| Constant | −1.13 | .73 | .32 | −.78 | .90 | .46 |
| F(44, 475634) | 4.51 | 2.98 | ||||
| N of person-periods | 1,506 | 1,491 | ||||
| N of persons | 1,068 | 918 | ||||
Note:
†
p < 0.10,
*
p < 0.05,
**
p < 0.01,
***
p < 0.001