Socioeconomic Status, Parenting Investments, and Negative Personality Traits Over Time and Across Generations

The current investigation tested predictions from the interactionist model (IM) of socioeconomic influences on the development of negative personality traits with respect to feelings of alienation and low well-being. The model tested proposed that lower family socioeconomic status would lead to fewe...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 2021-02, Vol.57 (2), p.164-179
Main Authors: Martin, Monica J., Donnellan, M. Brent
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Adult Development
Alienation
Attributes
Child Rearing
Female
Generational Differences
Human
Life Changes
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Negativism
Parent Influence
Parental Investment
Parenting
Parenting Styles
Parents & parenting
Personality
Personality Development
Personality Traits
Prediction
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomic Influences
Socioeconomic Status
Test Construction
Third generation
Well Being
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Summary:The current investigation tested predictions from the interactionist model (IM) of socioeconomic influences on the development of negative personality traits with respect to feelings of alienation and low well-being. The model tested proposed that lower family socioeconomic status would lead to fewer parenting and material investments in the next generation adolescent, which in turn would be associated with higher levels of adolescent negative personality traits. The IM also predicted a transactional process in which adolescent negative personality attributes would then deter future socioeconomic success during adulthood which, in turn, would hinder adult development in terms of greater feelings of alienation and diminished well-being. Analyses with a cohort of 347 adolescents followed for over 20 years produced findings consistent with these predictions. Moreover, additional analyses with 282 of the third generation children of these cohort members demonstrated that this same process was being replicated in the third generation. The findings suggest reciprocal or transactional influences that promote the development of negative personality attributes and accumulating personal, economic and social advantages over time and generations.
ISSN:0012-1649
1939-0599
DOI:10.1037/dev0000426