Despite recent concern surrounding increases in parental coresidence during young adulthood, questions about the relationship between this demographic shift and the well-being of young adults have received little scholarly attention. This paper uses survey data from National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to examine the relationship between parental coresidence transitions and depressive symptoms as well as whether these patterns are contingent on changes in economic resources, self-rated health, and transitions surrounding college graduation, work, marriage, and parenthood. The analyses reveal that those returning to a parental home after experiencing residential independence report an increase in depressive symptoms relative to their stably independent peers, even after accounting for other mental health–linked changes that predict these residential patterns and evaluations of relationships with parents. The findings highlight the implications of the trend toward parental coresidence for current young adults’ mental health.

尽管最近有关年轻成年期父母对父母的信心增加的担忧，但有关这种人口变化与年轻人的福祉之间关系的问题却鲜有学术关注。本文使用《美国青少年至成人健康纵向研究》（Add Health）的调查数据来检验父母的自信心转变和抑郁症状之间的关系，以及这些模式是否取决于经济资源的变化，自我评价的健康和转变围绕大学毕业，工作，婚姻和父母身份。分析表明，那些经历了居住独立之后返回父母家庭的人相对于稳定独立的同伴而言，他们的抑郁症状有所增加，即使考虑到其他与心理健康有关的变化，这些变化也可以预测这些居住模式和与父母的关系评估。这些发现凸显了父母的共有倾向趋势对当前年轻人的心理健康的影响。