eprintid: 10164698 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/16/46/98 datestamp: 2023-02-10 13:48:37 lastmod: 2023-02-10 13:48:53 status_changed: 2023-02-10 13:48:37 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Symonds, JE creators_name: D’Urso, G creators_name: Schoon, I title: The Long-Term Benefits of Adolescent School Engagement for Adult Educational and Employment Outcomes ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J81 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: School engagement in adolescence is often associated with better academic performance at school, but what are the longitudinal associations between school engagement and adult educational and employment status? The current study explored these longitudinal associations using data spanning 40-years of life, from the 1970 British Cohort Study. School engagement at age 16-years was used to predict highest educational level at age 34-years, and socioeconomic status and income at ages 34 and 46-years, controlling for childhood socioeconomic status, cognitive ability, gender, and ethnic minority status, collected at ages 5 or 10-years. The 13,135 individuals in the sample were born in 1970, were mainly White (96%), and were identified at age 5-years as being 48% female. Longitudinal structural equation models revealed that adolescent school engagement had a persistent, positive impact on adult educational and employment outcomes after individual differences were controlled for. The results are interpreted using the perspective that school engagement can channel resources which are important for later educational and occupational success. date: 2022 date_type: published publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) official_url: https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/dev0001458 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1984039 doi: 10.1037/dev0001458 lyricists_name: Schoon, Ingrid lyricists_id: ISCHO87 actors_name: Schoon, Ingrid actors_id: ISCHO87 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Developmental Psychology citation: Symonds, JE; D’Urso, G; Schoon, I; (2022) The Long-Term Benefits of Adolescent School Engagement for Adult Educational and Employment Outcomes. Developmental Psychology 10.1037/dev0001458 <https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001458>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164698/2/Schoon_DEV-2022-0101_R2.pdf