Three Essays on the Intergenerational Transmission of Family Attitudes and Behaviors.
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Socialization is a key mechanism through which attitudes and values are transmitted from one generation to the next. Socialization has occurred when an individual has internalized the attitude or value in question—that is, it has been integrated into the individual’s own system of beliefs. Utilizing a life course perspective and an oft-cited two-step model of internalization, I address four questions about the intergenerational transmission of family attitudes and behaviors: (1) How do early family characteristics influence children’s perceptions of their mothers’ attitudes toward family behaviors later in life? (2) How is mothers’ sex-themed communication related to the accuracy of teens’ perceptions of their mothers’ attitudes toward sex? (3) How is family structure related to the accuracy of teens’ perceptions of their mothers’ attitudes toward sex? And (4) How do mothers’ family attitudes influence their adult children’s marital/cohabiting relationship quality? To investigate these questions I use longitudinal data from the Intergenerational Panel Study of Mothers and Children and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
Author: Amie B. Emens
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W106636794