Learning to Love, Work, and Live Your Best Life: Mentoring in Emerging Adulthood Predicts Later Flourishing and Subjective Well-Being. Issue 5 (October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boeder, Jordan; Fruiht, Veronica; Hwang, Sarah; Blanco, Giovanna; Chan, Thomas
• Is Part Of: Emerging adulthood. Volume 10:Issue 5(2022)
• Page Start: 1222
• Page End: 1234
• Publication Date: 2022-10
• Subjects: happiness -- relationship mentoring -- career mentoring -- social support -- social capital; Young adults -- Periodicals; Adolescence -- Periodicals; Teenagers -- Periodicals; Adolescent psychology -- Periodicals; 305
• DOI: 10.1177/21676968211012879
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2167-6968

Abstract

Mentors that guide young people in their transition to adulthood provide support in a variety of domains that set the stage for happier adult lives. While mentoring during emerging adulthood is associated with shorter-term social and professional success—less is known about whether mentoring for career and committed relationships, specifically, are linked to downstream well-being. This study uses nationally representative data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics ( N = 6, 197) to examine whether receiving mentoring in emerging adulthood is linked to later flourishing and subjective well-being. Structural Equation Models indicate that people with career mentors in emerging adulthood reported higher levels of flourishing and subjective well-being and those with committed relationship mentors reported more flourishing in later life. Findings suggest that emerging adults who receive career supports may have better chances of experiencing well-being downstream.