TY - JOUR
T1 - Not participating in education, employment or training (NEET)
T2 - hope to mitigate new social risks in the UK?
AU - Murphy, Emily C.
AU - Holmes, Craig
AU - Mayhew, Ken
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Authors 2022.
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Young people not participating in education, employment or training (NEET) are a key policy concern in Europe. In this study, we bring forward the idea of hope as a form of life course agency to examine whether hopeful thinking plays a protective role against the risk of being NEET in the context of the British welfare state. Hope is conceptualised as multidimensional: being a temporally embedded, agentic mentality comprised of one’s sense of adaptive decision-making in the present and pathways-thinking towards the future. Longitudinal estimations based on the latest Understanding Society microdata (2009–19) indicate a direct association between higher-hope modes, on average, and a lower likelihood of being NEET. Further, interaction models assess whether hopeful agency is moderated by the experience of parental worklessness. Findings indicate that hopeful agency is shown to be important in the face of NEET risks borne of family background. For the UK, building and ensuring that young people maintain an adaptive, agentic mentality towards their future in education or employment over the long term, may prove one cost-effective policy approach.
AB - Young people not participating in education, employment or training (NEET) are a key policy concern in Europe. In this study, we bring forward the idea of hope as a form of life course agency to examine whether hopeful thinking plays a protective role against the risk of being NEET in the context of the British welfare state. Hope is conceptualised as multidimensional: being a temporally embedded, agentic mentality comprised of one’s sense of adaptive decision-making in the present and pathways-thinking towards the future. Longitudinal estimations based on the latest Understanding Society microdata (2009–19) indicate a direct association between higher-hope modes, on average, and a lower likelihood of being NEET. Further, interaction models assess whether hopeful agency is moderated by the experience of parental worklessness. Findings indicate that hopeful agency is shown to be important in the face of NEET risks borne of family background. For the UK, building and ensuring that young people maintain an adaptive, agentic mentality towards their future in education or employment over the long term, may prove one cost-effective policy approach.
KW - hope
KW - life course agency
KW - NEET
KW - parental worklessness
KW - youth inactivity
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UR - https://researchrepository.ul.ie/articles/journal_contribution/Not_participating_in_education_employment_or_training_NEET_Hope_to_mitigate_new_social_risks_in_the_UK_/21407202?file=38007207
U2 - 10.1332/175795921X16590816546869
DO - 10.1332/175795921X16590816546869
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85147702344
SN - 1757-9597
VL - 13
SP - 596
EP - 620
JO - Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
JF - Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
IS - 4
ER -