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A community cohort study about childhood social and economic circumstances: racial/ethnic differences and associations with educational attainment and health of older adults
OBJECTIVES: Typical measures of childhood socioeconomic status (SES), such as father's occupation, have limited the ability to elucidate mechanisms by which childhood SES affects adult health. Mechanisms could include schooling experiences or work opportunities. Having previously used qualitati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641446/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23562813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002140 |
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author | Yen, Irene H Gregorich, Steven Cohen, Alison K Stewart, Anita |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Typical measures of childhood socioeconomic status (SES), such as father's occupation, have limited the ability to elucidate mechanisms by which childhood SES affects adult health. Mechanisms could include schooling experiences or work opportunities. Having previously used qualitative methods for concept development, we developed new retrospective measures of multiple domains of childhood social and economic circumstances in ethnically diverse older adults. We administered the new measures in a large sample and explored their association with adult SES. DESIGN: We used a cross-sectional survey design with a community sample. SETTING: The San Francisco Bay Area in California. PARTICIPANTS: 400 community-dwelling adults from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds (Whites, African Americans, Latinos and Asians/Pacific Islanders) aged 55 and older (mean=67 years); 61% were women. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: We measured attitudes towards schooling, extracurricular activities and adult encouragement and discouragement during the childhood/teen years. Bivariate analysis tested racial/ethnic differences on the various measures. Multivariate regression models estimated the extent to which retrospective circumstances were independently associated with adult educational attainment and adult health. RESULTS: Most of the childhood circumstances measures differed across racial/ethnic groups. In general, Whites reported more positive circumstances than non-Whites. Family financial circumstances, respondent's perception of schooling as a means to get ahead, high school extracurricular activities, summer travel and summer reading were each statistically significantly associated with adult SES. Family composition, age began work, high school extracurricular activities, attitudes towards schooling and adult discouragement were associated with adult health. |
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spelling | pubmed-36414462013-05-07 A community cohort study about childhood social and economic circumstances: racial/ethnic differences and associations with educational attainment and health of older adults Yen, Irene H Gregorich, Steven Cohen, Alison K Stewart, Anita BMJ Open Public Health OBJECTIVES: Typical measures of childhood socioeconomic status (SES), such as father's occupation, have limited the ability to elucidate mechanisms by which childhood SES affects adult health. Mechanisms could include schooling experiences or work opportunities. Having previously used qualitative methods for concept development, we developed new retrospective measures of multiple domains of childhood social and economic circumstances in ethnically diverse older adults. We administered the new measures in a large sample and explored their association with adult SES. DESIGN: We used a cross-sectional survey design with a community sample. SETTING: The San Francisco Bay Area in California. PARTICIPANTS: 400 community-dwelling adults from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds (Whites, African Americans, Latinos and Asians/Pacific Islanders) aged 55 and older (mean=67 years); 61% were women. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: We measured attitudes towards schooling, extracurricular activities and adult encouragement and discouragement during the childhood/teen years. Bivariate analysis tested racial/ethnic differences on the various measures. Multivariate regression models estimated the extent to which retrospective circumstances were independently associated with adult educational attainment and adult health. RESULTS: Most of the childhood circumstances measures differed across racial/ethnic groups. In general, Whites reported more positive circumstances than non-Whites. Family financial circumstances, respondent's perception of schooling as a means to get ahead, high school extracurricular activities, summer travel and summer reading were each statistically significantly associated with adult SES. Family composition, age began work, high school extracurricular activities, attitudes towards schooling and adult discouragement were associated with adult health. BMJ Publishing Group 2013-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3641446/ /pubmed/23562813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002140 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode |
spellingShingle | Public Health Yen, Irene H Gregorich, Steven Cohen, Alison K Stewart, Anita A community cohort study about childhood social and economic circumstances: racial/ethnic differences and associations with educational attainment and health of older adults |
title | A community cohort study about childhood social and economic circumstances: racial/ethnic differences and associations with educational attainment and health of older adults |
title_full | A community cohort study about childhood social and economic circumstances: racial/ethnic differences and associations with educational attainment and health of older adults |
title_fullStr | A community cohort study about childhood social and economic circumstances: racial/ethnic differences and associations with educational attainment and health of older adults |
title_full_unstemmed | A community cohort study about childhood social and economic circumstances: racial/ethnic differences and associations with educational attainment and health of older adults |
title_short | A community cohort study about childhood social and economic circumstances: racial/ethnic differences and associations with educational attainment and health of older adults |
title_sort | community cohort study about childhood social and economic circumstances: racial/ethnic differences and associations with educational attainment and health of older adults |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641446/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23562813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002140 |
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