Intergenerational social mobility and mid-life status attainment: Influences of childhood intelligence, childhood social factors, and education
Intergenerational social mobility and mid-life status attainment: Influences of childhood intelligence, childhood social factors, and education
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DOI：
10.1016/j.intell.2005.06.003
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发表时间：
2005-09-01
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3
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Starr, JM
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作者：
Deary, IJ;Taylor, MD;Starr, JM
我们研究了童年社会背景，童年认知能力和教育对代际社会流动和中年社会地位获得的影响。受试者是1921年出生的男性，他们参加了1932年的苏格兰心理调查，此后又参加了1970年至1973年在苏格兰进行的中跨度合作研究。在逻辑回归分析中，儿童期认知能力和身高与从父亲的社会阶层到中年参与者的社会阶层的向上和向下变化有关。教育对向上的社会流动性有很大影响。兄弟姐妹的数量对社会流动性没有显著影响。在调整其他变量后，也对这些影响进行了检查。在结构方程模型分析中，父亲的社会阶层和童年的认知能力影响社会地位的获得在中年，教育和职业地位在青年成年的部分中介因素。值得注意的是，童年认知能力与中年职业的关系比与第一份职业的关系更密切。这些数据补充了相对较少的跟踪成年后地位获得过程的研究，它们提供了来自新地理环境的信息，并且它们包含的信息比大多数现有研究更大比例的生命历程。(c)2005年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
We examined the influences of childhood social background, childhood cognitive ability, and education on intergenerational social mobility and social status attainment at midlife. The subjects were men born in 1921 and who participated in the Scottish Mental Survey of 1932 and thereafter in the Midspan Collaborative study in Scotland between 1970 and 1973. In logistic regression analyses, childhood cognitive ability and height were associated with upward and downward change from father's social class to participant's social class at mid-life. Education significantly influenced upward social mobility. Number of siblings had no significant effect on social mobility. These effects were also examined after adjusting for the other variables. In structural equation modelling analyses, father's social class and childhood cognitive ability influenced social status attainment at midlife, with education and occupational status in young adulthood as partially mediating factors. It was noteworthy that childhood cognitive ability related more strongly to occupation in midlife than to first occupation. These data add to the relatively few studies that track the process of status attainment in adulthood, they provide information from a new geographical setting, and they contain information from a greater proportion of the lifecourse than do most existing studies. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.