Jeylan T Mortimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeylan T Mortimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeylan T |
| FAMILY NAME | Mortimer |
| SIGNATURE | MORTIMER J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9192-1873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 109 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 821 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 104 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
The long-term effects of adolescent work on adult socioeconomic attainment
Constancy of Self-Attitudes from Adolescence to Midlife: Does Change Become More Durable or Transient with Age
The intergenerational reproduction of self-direction at work: Revisiting Class and Conformity
In his path-breaking monograph, Class and Conformity, Melvin Kohn reasoned that parents prepare their children for the same conditions of work that they themselves experience. Kohn and his colleagues’ research focused on the influence of parental self-direction at work on parental child-rearing values and practices, as well as the self-directed values of children. The intergenerational transmission of occupational self-direction from parents to t…
Diminishing Returns to Psychological Resources in the Attainment Process? A Study of Educational Plans Across Generations
The principles of agency and time and place are key tenets of the life course perspective. The development of educational goals, a highly impactful agentic process, is generally considered in universalistic terms, however, without consideration of the historical context of opportunity. In this article, we address two research questions. First, do psychological dimensions reflective of agency (optimism, self-esteem, and the academic self-concept) …
The duration and intensity of adolescents’ childcare and eldercare responsibilities: Links to short- and long-term educational outcomes
This longitudinal study documents individual differences in the intensity and duration of adolescents' childcare and eldercare responsibilities from ages 14 to 18. Further, it investigates how adolescents' caregiving responsibilities are associated with socioeconomic background, and educational achievement in high school and at midlife. Participants ( N = 1,130, 52% female, 12% Asian, 9% Black, 4% Hispanic) were followed longitudinally from ages …
Policy Brief
Taking the long view of adolescent work quality
Following Schulenberg's research on teenage employment and vocational development, we ask to what extent do job dimensions reflecting the quality of work experience during mid-adolescence (e.g., work stress, autonomy, learning and advancement opportunities, hourly pay, wage satisfaction, and work hours) predict the same work experiences during the ensuing occupational career? Using longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study (N = 711 indiv…
Cumulative Unionization and Physical Health Disparities among Older Adults
Whereas previous research shows that union membership is associated with improved health, static measurements have been used to test dynamic theories linking the two. We construct a novel measure of cumulative unionization, tracking individuals across their entire careers, to examine health consequences in older adulthood. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1970-2019) and predict self-rated health, functional limitations, and ch…
Work Experience and Mental Health from Adolescence to Mid-Life
The etiology of psychological differences among those who pursue distinct lines of work have long been of scholarly interest. A prevalent early and continuing assumption is that experiences on the job influence psychological development; contemporary analysts focus on dimensions indicative of mental health. Still, such work-related psychological differences may instead be attributable to selection processes to the extent that individuals can choo…
Dreams of a Lifetime: How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine Our Future
Believing and Achieving: Gendered Pathways Toward Upward Educational Mobility in the United States
Socioeconomic origin, future expectations, and educational achievement: A longitudinal three-generation study of the persistence of family advantage
Expectations about the future direct effort in goal-oriented action and may influence a range of life course outcomes, including educational attainment. Here we investigate whether such expectations are implicated in the dynamics underlying the persistence of educational advantage across family generations, and whether such dynamics have changed in recent decades in view of historical change. Focusing on the role of domain-specific (educational) …
Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens
Decline of “the American Dream”? Outlook toward the Future across Three Generations of Midwest Families
Expansion of higher education and long-term economic growth have fostered high aspirations among adolescents. Recently, however, deteriorating labor force opportunities, particularly since the “Great Recession,” and rising inequality have challenged the “American Dream.” To assess how parental and adolescent outlooks have evolved over time, we examine shifts in future orientations across three generations of Midwest American families. Our unique …
Youth, Jobs, and the Future: Problems and Prospects
Work Value Transmission From Parents to Children: Early Socialization and Delayed Activation
This study examines the transmission of work values from parents to children between mid-adolescence and early midlife. The authors propose that work-related values are transmitted from parents to children in two sequential and complementary processes stretched across adolescence and early adulthood. The first process of work value exposure and reception in the family context is captured by the socialization model. The second process is one of de…
Self-esteem and self-efficacy in the status attainment process and the multigenerational transmission of advantage
Is Adolescent Employment Still a Risk Factor for High School Dropout
Past cohorts of teenagers who spent long hours in jobs were more likely to drop out of high school than those who worked moderate hours or did not work at all. This article examines the association between employment intensity and dropout among adolescents in the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 who traversed high school during a time of decreased prevalence of both employment and dropout relative to earlier cohorts. Analyses reveal that a …
Life‐Course Perspective
The life‐course paradigm can be characterized as the study of changing individual lives within shifting societal structures. That is, human beings and societies change in tandem, mutually affecting one another through historical time. The life‐course conceptual framework encompasses all stages of human life from birth to death and is increasingly extending to multigenerational influences. It draws on Glen Elder's principles (time and place, linke…
Bridging the Gaps: College Pathways to Career Success
Familial Transmission of Educational Plans and the Academic Self-Concept: A Three-Generation Longitudinal Study
This research investigates the social reproduction of inequality by drawing on prospective longitudinal data from three generations of Youth Development Study respondents. It examines intergenerational influence on the relatively unexplored academic self-concept as well as educational plans, a critical component of the status attainment model. A structural equation model, based on 422 three-generation triads, finds evidence that the sources givin…
Parental Assistance, Negative Life Events, and Attainment During the Transition to Adulthood
Responding to the longer and more variable transition to adulthood, parents are stepping in to help their young adult children. Little is known, however, about the extent to which parental support promotes success, and whether parental support has different effects for young adult sons and daughters. Using longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study, we find that parental scaffolding assistance for educational expenses predicts college gra…
Exploring the Correlates of Parental Consent for Children’s Participation in Surveys: An Intergenerational Longitudinal Study
The validity of survey research has been challenged by an alarming increase in nonresponse rates over the past four decades. In reaction to the public’s increasing reluctance to participate in surveys, scholars have focused on the reasons for, and consequences of, nonresponse. However, children’s participation in research is a neglected area of study. We address this gap in the literature by examining parental consent to allow their children to p…
The Passage from Youth to Adulthood: Narrative and Cultural Thresholds
Unemployment, Parental Help, and Self-Efficacy During the Transition to Adulthood
Youth unemployment reduces the capacity to achieve diverse markers of adulthood, potentially undermining the young adult's sense of confidence and independence. While parents often come to the aid of their unemployed young adult children, such support may also have negative psychological repercussions. Applying a hierarchical modeling strategy to longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study, the authors find that both unemployment and paren…
Safety Nets and Scaffolds: Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood
Using longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study (analytic sample N = 712), we investigate how age, adult role acquisition and attainments, family resources, parent-child relationship quality, school attendance, and life events influence support received from parents in young adulthood. Parental assistance was found to be less forthcoming for those who had made greater progress on the road to adulthood, signified by socioeconomic attainme…
Work Experience and Occupational Value Socialization: A Longitudinal Study
This research examines the effects of work experience on occupational reward values, which are of central importance in occupational choice, career development, and subjective responses to work. Whereas it is often assumed that occupational values remain fixed throughout the work history, a confirmatory factor analysis of data obtained from male college graduates over a 10-year time span demostrates that work authonomy and income influence intrin…
Volunteerism during the Transition to Adulthood: A Life Course Perspective
This panel study examines whether educational, work, and family roles promote volunteerism during late adolescence and early adulthood, as they do later in adulthood. The findings reveal substantial continuity in volunteerism from adolescence through the transition to adulthood and highlight the importance of values expressed in adolescence for volunteerism in the years following. Controlling these processes, attending school during this life sta…
Volunteerism in Adolescence: A Process Perspective
Previous research has suggested that volunteering may have beneficial developmental consequences for adolescents. However, the sparse research on youth volunteerism is generally limited by a cross-sectional design that does not elucidate causal relations. This study addresses the questions, "Who participates in volunteer work?" and "What are the effects of youth volunteerism?" A panel study of a representative community sample of both volunteers …
Adult Socialization
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
Work Experience and Control Orientation in Adolescence
Adolescent orientations toward and expectancies about competent action are important predictors of adult attainment. Using panel data, this study shows that part-time work experiences and mastery orientation are reciprocally related among adolescents. Prior control orientation, measured by Pearlin's mastery scale, significantly influenced the character of boys' and girls' subsequent work experiences. Furthermore, extrinsic conditions and stressor…
Weathering the great recession: Psychological and behavioral trajectories in the transition from school to work
Studies of career development highlight the importance of finding a good "fit" between individual values, needs, and abilities and the experiences and rewards to be found in particular occupations. Rapid economic change and labor market turbulence make career choice and development life-long processes. Still, early careers are particularly unstable, as young workers move from "survival jobs" to "career jobs" in their quest for a good person-job f…
Explaining the Motherhood Wage Penalty During the Early Occupational Career
Prior research shows that mothers earn lower hourly wages than women without children, and that this maternal wage penalty cannot be fully explained by differences between mothers and other women in work experience and job characteristics. This research examines whether the residual motherhood wage penalty results from differences between mothers and other women in the accumulation of work interruptions and breaks in schooling. Using longitudinal…
Educational and Work Strategies from Adolescence to Early Adulthood: Consequences for Educational Attainment
Whereas sociologists have long recognized that adolescence marks the start of the socioeconomic career, the importance of this period has been attributed to school performance, aspirations, and significant others' influence that support educational attainment to a greater or lesser degree. The underlying premise of this study is that adolescent work is an expression of instrumental action with consequences for socioeconomic attainment. Using data…
Job Involvement Through the Life Course: A Panel Study of Three Age Groups
Utilizing panel data for three age groups from the 1972-73 and 1977 Quality of Employment Surveys, this study investigates the interrelations of work experiences and subjective job involvement in three age groups that are indicative of different career stages. Whereas job involvement is quite volatile in the initial stage of the work career, it becomes more stable, supporting the aging stability hypothesis, as workers grow older. Work experiences…
Occupational Experience and the Self-Concept: A Longitudinal Study
This research examines the socializing effects of work experience on the competence dimension of the self-concept during the early work career. The panel consisted of 435 male 1966-67 college graduates who were studied during their undergraduate years andfollowed up, 10 years later, by a mail survey. Using the confirmatory factor analysis procedure, the findings demonstrated significant effects of work autonomy on the individual's sense of compet…
The Transition to Adulthood: Life Course Structures and Subjective Perceptions
We examine the relationships between objective life-course structures and the subjective sense of timing of adult roles and acquisition of adult identity. Hierarchical latent class analysis is applied to longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study in order to describe roles related to school, work, family formation, and living arrangements from age 17 to 30. The transition to adulthood in this cohort is well represented by five pathways pr…
Tracing the Timing of 'Career' Acquisition in a Contemporary Youth Cohort
Contemporary youth typically experience considerable floundering and uncertainty in their transition from school to work. This article examines patterns of schooling and working during adolescence and the transition to adulthood that hasten or delay an important subjective marker of transition to adulthood: acquiring a job that is recognized as a 'career.' We use Youth Development Study data, obtained from a prospective longitudinal study of 9th …
Family Structure Differences in the Timing of Leaving Home: Exploring Mediating Factors
Eight years of panel data are used in an event history analysis to examine the association between family structure and departure from the parental home for over 700 youth. Specifically, we focus on several possible mediators in this relationship (parent-child relationship quality, household work efforts, psychological efficacy, family income and personal income, peer involvement, and one's own childbearing) to determine whether they alter the st…
Judgments About Work: Dimensionality Revisited
The authors examine the measurement structure of individuals' orientations toward work rewards, or 'judgments about work,' a concept central to the social psychology of work. Despite extensive and sustained interest in the level of importance attached to work rewards by major markers of social location such as birth cohort, social class origins, and gender, prior studies have not examined whether the same classification schema captures the underl…
Unemployment, Parental Help, and Self-Efficacy During the Transition to Adulthood
Youth unemployment reduces the capacity to achieve diverse markers of adulthood, potentially undermining the young adult's sense of confidence and independence. While parents often come to the aid of their unemployed young adult children, such support may also have negative psychological repercussions. Applying a hierarchical modeling strategy to longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study, the authors find that both unemployment and paren…
Adolescent Precursors of Pathways From School to Work
Longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study is used to examine: (1) how young people establish work with self-identified career potential and how these patterns are linked to educational attainments; and (2) how adolescent achievement orientations, experiences in school and work, and sociodemographic background distinguish youth who establish themselves in careers and those who flounder during this transition. Multilevel latent class model…
Global and Economic Self-Efficacy in the Educational Attainment Process
Lorie J. Schabo Grabowski, Kathleen Thiede Call, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Global and Economic Self-Efficacy in the Educational Attainment Process, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Jun., 2001), pp. 164-179
Social Structure and the Individual: Emerging Themes and New Directions
James S. House, Jeylan Mortimer, Social Structure and the Individual: Emerging Themes and New Directions, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 2, Special Issue: Social Structure and the Individual (Jun., 1990), pp. 71-80
The Problem of Metaphorical Nonequivalence in Cross-Cultural Survey Research: Comparing the Mental Health Statuses of Hmong Refugee and General Population Adolescents
The use of questionnaire data to compare the mental health of Hmong refugee and general population high school students demonstrates the difficulty of translating between investigator and subject lexicons and, consequently, of equating the conceptual systems they signify. Whether particular psychosocial variables that are standardized for a general population can be used to study the adjustment of linguistically unassimilated ethnic minorities de…
Adolescent Work Experience and Depressive Affect
Using longitudinal data from a panel of youth followed from the 9th to the 10th grade, we examine how facets of adolescents work influence depressive affects. The results support the hypothesis that work experiences contribute to depressed mood among adolescents. The findings also indicate that workers are more emotionally independent of their parents than non-working adolescents
The Quality of Work and Youth Mental Health
According to one prominent perspective, part-time work places adolescents at risk because it confronts them with stressors for which they are unprepared and limits participation in more developmentally beneficial activities. However, if working signifies progress in moving toward adulthood, it could promote psychological well-being. Although the controversy surrounding teenage work is focused on employment status and intensity, research on adults…
Working and Growing Up in America
Work Experience, Mental Health, and Behavioral Adjustment in Adolescence
This study examines the relationship between early work experience and adolescent mental health and behavioral adjustment. Using data obtained from 1,001 ninth graders about current jobs, attributes of work are examined in relation to dimensions of mental health (self-esteem and self-derogation, depressive affect and well-being, and internal and external control orientations) and indicators of behavioral adjustment (smoking, alcohol use, and prob…
Patterns of Intergenerational Occupational Movements: A Smallest-Space Analysis
Using the smallest-space analysis technique to investigate the relationships between fathers' occupations and male college students' career choices, three dimensions of work were found to be relevant to the interpretation of the space: autonomy, rewards, and functional foci. Further examination of the data indicated a strong pattern of occupational inheritance. When sons did not inherit their fathers' occupations, they still tended to choose work…
Patterns of Intergenerational Occupational Movements: A Smallest-Space Analysis
Using the smallest-space analysis technique to investigate the relationships between fathers' occupations and male college students' career choices, three dimensions of work were found to be relevant to the interpretation of the space: autonomy, rewards, and functional foci. Further examination of the data indicated a strong pattern of occupational inheritance. When sons did not inherit their fathers' occupations, they still tended to choose work…
Occupational Value Socialization in Business and Professional Families
Different patterns of association between family relationships and male college seniors' vocational values were found in business and professional origin groups when four socioeconomic indicators were controlled. Familial closeness and communication were positively related to businessmen's sons' evaluation of extrinsic rewards; in the professional families, these variables tended to be positively related to sons' intrinsic concerns. Similarly, re…
Toward a Sociology of Women
Social Class, Work and the Family: Some Implications of the Father's Occupation for Familial Relationships and Sons' Career Decisions
Jeylan T. Mortimer, Social Class, Work and the Family: Some Implications of the Father's Occupation for Familial Relationships and Sons' Career Decisions, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May, 1976), pp. 241-256
Learning to Work
Husbands' Occupational Attributes as Constraints on Wives' Employment
This paper draws attention to the implications of the husband's occupational role for the wife's employment by reviewing a widely dispersed literature. It is argued that central attributes of the husband's work role limit the sharing offamily work and put pressure on the wife to participate in the "two-person career, " thereby limiting her own occupational participation and attainment. The socioeconomic rewards, career patterns, temporal requirem…
Adult Socialization
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
Sociology of Computer Work: Introduction
Occupational Experience and the Self-Concept: A Longitudinal Study
This research examines the socializing effects of work experience on the competence dimension of the self-concept during the early work career. The panel consisted of 435 male 1966-67 college graduates who were studied during their undergraduate years andfollowed up, 10 years later, by a mail survey. Using the confirmatory factor analysis procedure, the findings demonstrated significant effects of work autonomy on the individual's sense of compet…
Adult Development and Learning: A Hardbook on Individual Growth and Competance in the Adult Years for Education and the Helping Professions
Work Experience and Political Orientation: A Panel Study
This research investigates the effects of work experience on change in political orientation from late adolescence to early adulthood. Joreskog's confirmatory factor analysis method was applied to longitudinal data, obtained from a sample of male college graduates over a ten-year period. The findings indicate that (1) individuals select work settings that are compatible with their earlier political attitudes, (2) the political climate of the sect…
Work Experience and Occupational Value Socialization: A Longitudinal Study
This research examines the effects of work experience on occupational reward values, which are of central importance in occupational choice, career development, and subjective responses to work. Whereas it is often assumed that occupational values remain fixed throughout the work history, a confirmatory factor analysis of data obtained from male college graduates over a 10-year time span demostrates that work authonomy and income influence intrin…
Comment on Samuel and Lewin-Epstein
Work Experience and Work Involvement
This panel study examines the interrelations of work experience and psychological involvement in work among male college graduates over a 10-year period. The data analysis provides substantial support for the "occupational socialization hypothesis"—that work experience and, particularly, work autonomy, stimulate work involvement over time. There was also evidence for the "occupational selection hypothesis"— that high work involvement, prior to la…
Social Stratification and Occupations
A Further Examination of the 'Occupational Linkage Hypothesis
In response to Lueptow, McClendon, and McKeon's (1979) recent criticisms of the “occupational linkage hypothesis,” we estimate a modified linkage model, using data obtained from a panel of male college graduates over a ten-year period. The findings indicate differences in the processes of socialization and occupational attainment depending on the character (business vs. professional) of the father's occupation. Specifically, paternal support was …
Aging: Social Change. Sara B. Kiesler , James N. Morgan , Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer
Work and Personality: An Inquiry into the Impact of Social Stratification
Stability and Change in Adulthood
Job Involvement Through the Life Course: A Panel Study of Three Age Groups
Utilizing panel data for three age groups from the 1972-73 and 1977 Quality of Employment Surveys, this study investigates the interrelations of work experiences and subjective job involvement in three age groups that are indicative of different career stages. Whereas job involvement is quite volatile in the initial stage of the work career, it becomes more stable, supporting the aging stability hypothesis, as workers grow older. Work experiences…
The Development of Self-Esteem in the Early Work Career
To investigate the development of self-esteem in the early work career, a secondary analysis of data from 843 members of the 'Youth in Transition' panel of young men was performed. Maximum likelihood structural equation techniques were used to estimate a causal model including socioeconomic background and ability, self-esteem one and five years following high school, and work autonomy, education, income, and occupational prestige five years after…
Life-Span Development and Behavior, Vol. 7
Work, Family, and Personality: Transition to Adulthood
Work, Family, and Personality: Transition to Adulthood
Satisfaction and Involvement: Disentangling a Deceptively Simple Relationship
This paper explores the relationships of two psychological constructs that pertain to many domains of human activity: satisfaction and involvement. After reviewing the causal relationships between these constructs, we estimate a series of models of job satisfaction and job involvement using data from the 1973-1977 Quality of Employment Survey Panel
Psychology (93 works) · Developmental psychology (65 works) · Sociology (56 works) · Social Psychology (51 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (37 works) · Economics (30 works) · Political science (26 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Demography (22 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (22 works)