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; M_age=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.,

SUBMITTER: Sutin AR 

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature