title: Intergenerational transmission of adaptive functioning: a test of the interactionist model of SES and human development.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Davis, CA, USA. tomschofield@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Schofield
authors.forename: Monica J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Katherine J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Conger
authors.forename: Tricia M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Neppl
authors.forename: M Brent
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Donnellan
authors.forename: Rand D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Conger
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001240:Aspirations, Psychological; D002605:Character; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014825:Vocabulary; D055815:Young Adult