Building on research on the social nature of health, we view disability as a life course contingency wherein effects are differentially consequential during the transition to adulthood based on interactions between disability type and institutional characteristics of life course pathways. Using data from the United States National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n=2299 females and 2197 males, respectively), we utilise logit-link latent class analyses to model pathways to early adulthood and assess the effects of disability on these pathways. Results show that disability is variably connected to the transition to adulthood. Specifically, cognitive rather than physical disability is strongly connected to disadvantaged pathways, largely because it disrupts educational attainments that are the fundamental building blocks of the more advantageous pathways into adulthood and has effects consistently larger than several key sociodemographic indicators. Results are discussed with reference to life course capitalisation processes and a conceptualisation of disability in relation to the institutional logics and contexts that are the backdrop to contemporary role transitions.

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残疾和过渡到成年：生命历程的权变观点

基于对健康的社会本质的研究，我们将残疾视为生命过程的偶发事件，其中基于残疾类型与生命过程路径的制度特征之间的相互作用，在成年过渡期间，影响是不同的。使用来自美国青少年健康国家纵向研究的数据（分别为n = 2299名女性和2197名男性），我们利用logit-link隐性类分析来模拟成年早期的途径，并评估残疾对这些途径的影响。结果表明，残疾与向成年过渡有不同的联系。具体而言，认知障碍而非身体残疾与不利的途径紧密相关，很大程度上是因为它破坏了受教育程度，而受教育程度是成年后更有利的途径的基本组成部分，并且其影响始终大于几个关键的社会人口统计学指标。讨论结果时参考了人生过程的资本化过程，以及与制度逻辑和背景相关的残疾概念化，而后者是当代角色转变的背景。