Parental co-residence and young adults mental health

Abstract

The growing trend towards young adults staying in the parental home has garnered much recent scholarly interest. However, less is known about which young adults are living at home, and the impacts this has over young adults lives. Using The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) dataset, this study examines the profiles of co-residing young adults and how these have changed over the first two decades of the 21st century. It then analyses the associations between co-residence and young adults mental health, applying a propensity score modelling approach to determine differences in mental health between young adults living at home and their counterparts living independently..