Xinyin Chen’s research while affiliated with University of Haifa and other places

... However, research in other areas, such as fertility preferences among adults, suggests that uncertainty can be a very real answer in people's minds (Bhrolcháin and Beaujouan 2015). To better help clarify what uncertainty means for respondents, it would be interesting and useful to follow the lives of these respondents to see if uncertainty about marriage predicts specific outcomes in later life, such as how uncertainty around education and occupational expectations can predict both positive and negative outcomes in adulthood (Schoon et al. 2012). ...

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“I Have No Idea:” Uncertainty in High School Seniors’ Marital Expectations

... The life period of young adulthood (emerging adulthood) is not only the period of transition from adolescence to adulthood, but also the period of transition from education to employment, which is characterized by high instability [1] and several major life changes such as leaving the parental home, starting a partner relationship, and finding a stable employment [2,3]. ...

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Youth unemployment and mental health: Prevalence and associated factors of depression among unemployed young adults in Gedeo zone, Southern Ethiopia

... The prevalence of online communication among today's youth is not solely a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic, researchers noted that students live in a culture where online interactions have become more common than face-to-face social contact (Mesch, 2012;Reich et al., 2012). The pandemic, however, accelerated the shift by necessitating school closures, which led to increased reliance on digital and online tools for learning (Rice & Cun, 2023). ...

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The Hidden Pandemic: School Counselors’ Insights on Post-Pandemic Socialization

... At the same time, because biological parents tend to be more consistently invested in children's educational careers than stepparent figures, parents who are not partnered with their children's other parent (or at least coparenting with that other parent) will also be at a disadvantage when it comes to active and intensive parental involvement. Policymakers, however, infrequently tailor school policies and programs aiming to increase parental involvement to meet the needs of parents in a diverse array of living arrangements (Crosnoe and Benner, 2012;Ressler, Smith, Cavanagh, and Crosnoe, 2017). ...

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Parenting the Child in School

... Education is crucial, both for the individual in terms of future employment goals and adult life (Blossfeld et al., 2006;Seiffge-Krenke, 2012) and for society as a whole (OECD, 2020). As such, the completion of upper secondary school is essential. ...

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“They gotta understand why”: Teachers’ professional perceptions regarding the stimulation of academic motivation in upper secondary school

... However, in recent decades and especially since the economic crisis, this goal seems to be increasingly out of reach for young adults. The experience of upward mobility has become less common, while the fear of downward mobility is no longer confined to the lower bound of the social strata, but pervades the whole society (Buchholz and Blossfeld 2012;Furedi 2002). Education has started losing currency as one of the most important drivers of social mobility, as its expected returns have changed significantly (European Commission 2015). ...

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Extreme Pessimists? Expected Socioeconomic Downward Mobility and the Political Attitudes of Young Adults

... Leaders in both public and private sectors are expected to manifest greater and more sophisticated understandings of cultural differences (Hernandez & Kose, 2012). There is a widely shared hope that increasing access to formal educational credentials will address social, cultural, financial, and gender-related inequities manifested in the context of a postindustrial society (Buchmann & Malti, 2012). ...

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Higher Education Administration, and Leadership: Current Assumptions, Responsibilities, and Considerations