MOTHERS, CHILDREN, AND COHABITATION - THE INTERGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR
MOTHERS, CHILDREN, AND COHABITATION - THE INTERGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR
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DOI：
10.2307/2095968
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发表时间：
1993-04-01
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
THORNTON, A
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作者：
AXINN, WG;THORNTON, A
我们通过关注父母对非婚同居的态度以及同居和婚姻的经历来调查父母的态度和他们的孩子的行为之间的相互关系。我们测试的假设预测，父母的态度影响他们的孩子的行为，孩子的行为改变他们的父母的态度。我们使用的数据，从代际小组研究的母亲和他们的孩子，以指定模型测试这些预测。我们的研究结果支持了以下假设：（1）父母对同居的态度在控制了儿童自己的态度之后影响了儿童的行为;（2）儿童的行为影响了父母的态度。实证结果还揭示了态度和行为之间的联系的性别差异，以及家庭形成态度和行为的总体趋势之间可能存在的因果关系。
We investigate the reciprocal relationships between parents' attitudes and their children's behavior by focusing on attitudes toward nonmarital cohabitation and experience with cohabitation and marriage. We test hypotheses predicting that parental attitudes influence their children's behavior and that children's behavior alters their parents' attitudes. We use data from an intergenerational panel study of mothers and their children to specify models testing these predictions. Our findings support the hypotheses that (1) parental attitudes toward cohabitation influence children's behavior after controlling for children's own attitudes and (2) children's behavior influences their parents' attitudes. The empirical results also shed light on gender differences in the links between attitudes and behavior and possible causal links between aggregate level trends in family formation attitudes and behavior.