This study examined potential impacts of financial resources and values on emerging adults’ choice in committed relationships (N = 424, 26–35 years). Guided by Deacon and Firebaugh’s (1988) Family Resource Management theory, financial self-sufficiency and forming a committed relationship...

This study examines four waves of the Arizona Pathways to Life Success for University Students (APLUS) survey to analyze the relationship between objective measures and individual's perceptions of financial knowledge. The APLUS survey follows college students from their first year in college...

The purpose of this study is to examine associations among financial education, financial knowledge, and risky credit behavior of college students. Using data from a sample of first-year college students, we found evidence that taking personal finance courses in high school and college is...