Resilience in Inner City Youth: Childhood Predictors of Occupational Status Across the Lifespan

Journal of Youth and Adolescence - Tập 36 - Trang 61-70 - 2006
Ana C. DiRago1, George E. Vaillant2
1University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of Psychology, Minneapolis, USA
2Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Psychiatry Research, Boston, USA

Tóm tắt

The present prospective study has followed a cohort of inner city men from adolescence (14±2) until age 65. While previous studies of shorter duration have identified numerous childhood factors that powerfully influence outcomes in young adulthood, this study examined the effect of these well-documented prognostic factors on occupational status across the lifespan. Consistent with previous studies, childhood environmental protector factors and parental social class predicted occupational status at age 25 significantly, but showed progressively weaker prediction at ages 32, 47 and 65. Timely early childhood development proved over time to be a far more important predictor than childhood social environment in adulthood.

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