Intergenerational Transmission of Adaptive Functioning: A Test of the Interactionist Model of SES and Human Development
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Child Development
- Vol. 82 (1), 33-47
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01539.x
Abstract
The interactionist model (IM) of human development ( R. D. Conger & M. B. Donellan, 2007 ) proposes that the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and human development involves a dynamic interplay that includes both social causation (SES influences human development) and social selection (individual characteristics affect SES). Using a multigenerational data set involving 271 families, the current study finds empirical support for the IM. Adolescent personality characteristics indicative of social competence, goal-setting, hard work, and emotional stability predicted later SES, parenting, and family characteristics that were related to the positive development of a third-generation child. Processes of both social selection and social causation appear to account for the association between SES and dimensions of human development indicative of healthy functioning across multiple generations.Keywords
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