ArticleBMC public health2018
Emerging adults not in education, employment or training (NEET): socio-demographic characteristics, mental health and reasons for being NEET.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Tobacco and cannabis use in the young 'Not in Employment, Education or Training' population: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Pooled it
- The mental health of young people who are not in education, employment, or training: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Pooled it
- Engaging for change: the influence of civic engagement on at-risk Arab minority youth in Israel.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The effect of mental health problems on having a 'neither in employment nor in education or training' period and the mediating role of high school dropout: a register-based study with a 14-year follow-up.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2025Article
- The health status of South African youth joining Youth Employment Initiatives: a health promotion opportunity.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Grit: a psychological predictive factor among NEET youth.Health psychology report · 2025Article
- Once in NEET, always in NEET? Childhood and adolescent risk factors for different NEET patterns.European journal of public health · 2024Article
- Leave no one behind: integrated sexual and reproductive, mental health and psychosocial programming for not in employment, education or training (NEET) adolescents and youth in sub-Saharan Africa.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- Values, Health and Well-Being of Young Europeans Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The role of low educational attainment on the pathway from adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems to early adult labour market disconnection in the Dutch TRAILS cohort.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Civic Engagement in Socially Excluded Young Adults Promotes Well-Being: The Mediation of Self-Efficacy, Meaning in Life, and Identity Exploration.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Unrecognized schizophrenia spectrum and other mental disorders in youth disconnected from education and work-life.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- The civic engagement community participation thriving model: A multi-faceted thriving model to promote socially excluded young adult women.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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backgroundA growing group of emerging adults in many countries around the globe are not incorporated into the education system or the labor market; these have received the label "NEET: not in education, employment nor training". We describe the mental health and socio-demographic characteristics of emerging adults who are NEET from Mexico City (differentiating between NEET who are homemakers and NEET who are not) compared to their peers who are studying, working or both, in a city in which education and employment opportunities for youth are limited. A secondary objective, because of the often inconsistent inclusion criteria or definitions of NEET, was to evaluate the heterogeneity amongst NEET emerging adults in terms of their perceived reasons for being NEET and to evaluate whether different reasons for being NEET are associated with different mental health characteristics.
methodsThe participants were 1071 emerging adults aged 19 to 26; they were interviewed in person by an interviewer in their homes as part of a follow-up study of the Mexican Adolescent Mental Health Survey. The Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WMH-CIDI) assessed psychiatric disorders, substance use and abuse, suicidal behavior and socio-demographic characteristics.
resultsOf the total sample, 15.3% were NEET homemakers, 8.6% NEET non-homemakers, 41.6% worked only, 20.9% studied only and 13.5% worked and studied. Of those who were NEET, 12.6% were NEET by choice. NEET non-homemakers had overall greater odds of substance use, substance use disorders and some suicidal behaviors in comparison with all their peers, whereas NEET homemakers had reduced odds. Those who were NEET because they didn't know what to do with their life had greater odds of mood, behavioral, and substance disorders, use of all substances and of suicide behaviors compared to those who were NEET by choice.
conclusionsNon-homemaker NEET who lack life goals require targeted mental health intervention. The demographic reality of emerging adults not in education or employment and the varying reasons they give for being NEET are not consistent with how NEET is often conceptualized in terms of a societal problem.
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