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Parental Educational Attainment and Offspring Subjective Well-being and Self-Beliefs in Older Adulthood.

ABSTRACT: This research examines whether parental educational attainment and subjective childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with adult offspring well-being and self-beliefs (broadly defined). Participants from the Health and Retirement Study were included if they completed the leave-behind questionnaire in 2006 or 2008 (N=10,827; Mage=68.38; SD=9.81; range=50-101). Participants reported on their own and both parents educational attainment, subjective childhood financial situation, and financial difficulties in childhood at study entry and on well-being in 2006/2008. Linear regression was used to examine the association between offspring education, parental education, childhood SES and three aspects of well-being and self-beliefs: positive affect (e.g., positive emotions, optimism), negative affect (e.g., loneliness, hostility), and cognitive evaluation (e.g., life satisfaction). Participants with more education reported higher well-being (median ?=.12). Parental educational attainment, subjective childhood SES, and a significant financial event during childhood were associated with more positive affect, less negative affect, and higher life satisfaction (median ?=.05); these associations held controlling for offspring education. The educational and financial environment of childhood may hamper well-being into older adulthood; the offspring's own experiences and achievements do not completely attenuate the association with these aspects of the childhood environment.

SUBMITTER: Sutin AR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5839335 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Parental Educational Attainment and Offspring Subjective Well-being and Self-Beliefs in Older Adulthood.

Sutin Angelina R AR Stephan Yannick Y Terracciano Antonio A

Personality and individual differences 20180701

This research examines whether parental educational attainment and subjective childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with adult offspring well-being and self-beliefs (broadly defined). Participants from the Health and Retirement Study were included if they completed the leave-behind questionnaire in 2006 or 2008 (N=10,827; Mage=68.38; SD=9.81; range=50-101). Participants reported on their own and both parents educational attainment, subjective childhoo ...[more]

PMID: 29527082

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Parental Educational Attainment and Offspring Subjective Well-being and Self-Beliefs in Older Adulthood.

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Parental Educational Attainment and Offspring Subjective Well-being and Self-Beliefs in Older Adulthood.

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