Ideations and Intentions in the Transition to Adulthood : A Cross-European Comparison
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A90274%2F25%3A00143125" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:90274/25:00143125 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/668" target="_blank" >https://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/668</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2025-13" target="_blank" >10.12765/CPoS-2025-13</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ideations and Intentions in the Transition to Adulthood : A Cross-European Comparison
Original language description
Ideations and intentions are important precursors of actual behaviour but are still understudied in the literature on the transition to adulthood. This article provides a descriptive overview of ideations and intentions about the timing of four key events in the transition to adulthood – exit from the parental home, cohabitation, marriage, and parenthood – using cross-national representative data for 33 European countries from the Generations and Gender Survey and European Social Survey. Results show that ideations and intentions about the transition to adulthood are, like behaviours, gendered and display distinctive country differences. The analysis of age-graded ideations and intentions suggests a mismatch between the ideal and actual ages at which key events occur during the transition to adulthood. Young people aged 18 to 34 in Europe consider it ideal to start a non-marital cohabitation, marry, and become parents during their 20s but, on average, experience these events later than their ideal timeline. This mismatch is particularly pronounced among men and for the events of marriage and parenthood.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50400 - Sociology
Result continuities
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Comparative Population Studies
ISSN
1869-8980
e-ISSN
1869-8999
Volume of the periodical
50
Issue of the periodical within the volume
October
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
34
Pages from-to
205-238
UT code for WoS article
001589301800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105019669227