Adolescent frugality and perseverance as functional extensions of personality
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The Department of Human Development and Family Studies focuses on the interactions among individuals, families, and their resources and environments throughout their lifespans. It consists of three majors: Child, Adult, and Family Services (preparing students to work for agencies serving children, youth, adults, and families); Family Finance, Housing, and Policy (preparing students for work as financial counselors, insurance agents, loan-officers, lobbyists, policy experts, etc); and Early Childhood Education (preparing students to teach and work with young children and their families).
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The Department of Human Development and Family Studies was formed in 1991 from the merger of the Department of Family Environment and the Department of Child Development.
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1991-present
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- College of Human Sciences (parent college)
- Department of Child Development (predecessor)
- Department of Family Environment (predecessor)
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The current study examined how adolescent personality contributes to the development of frugality and perseverance. In addition, the study examined how frugality and perseverance promote parental involvement and school engagement in adolescence. Participants were taken from waves 3, 4, and 5 of the Flourishing Families Project and included 341 two-parent families with at least one adolescent between the ages of 12-15 at Wave 3 (mean age = 13.28, SD = 1.01, 48.4% female), 92.6% of whom had complete data for Wave 4 (1 year later). The first major finding revealed that adolescent conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability predicted frugality and perseverance via structural equation modeling. The second major finding was that parental involvement promoted adolescent school engagement. The current study helps to better understand the interplay between adolescent personality, frugality, perseverance, parental involvement, and school engagement.