1014 Social Sciences Building, Department of Sociology, 267 19th Avenue South, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; Department of Social Science, Institute of Education, University College London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, United Kingdom.
1014 Social Sciences Building, Department of Sociology, 267 19th Avenue South, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Soc Sci Res. 2020 Feb;86:102374. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102374. Epub 2019 Oct 22.
Despite considerable evidence of the importance of self-esteem and self-efficacy for agentic, goal-oriented behavior, little attention has been directed to these psychological dimensions in the status attainment literature. The present research uses data from the longitudinal, three-generation Youth Development Study (N = 422 three-generation triads) to examine the extent to which adolescent self-esteem and economic self-efficacy affect adult educational and income attainment, and whether these psychological resources are transmitted from one generation to the next, accumulating advantage across generations. We present evidence indicating that both self-esteem and economic self-efficacy are implicated in the attainment process. Adolescent economic self-efficacy had a direct positive effect on adult educational attainment and an indirect effect through educational plans. The influence of self-esteem on adult educational attainment was entirely indirect, through school achievement. We also find evidence that economic self-efficacy was transmitted from parents to children. We conclude that future research should more broadly consider psychological resources in attainment processes from a longitudinal multigenerational perspective.
尽管有大量证据表明自尊和自我效能感对自主、目标导向的行为很重要，但在地位获得文献中，很少有人关注这些心理维度。本研究使用了来自纵向三代青年发展研究（N=422 个三代三联体）的数据，考察了青少年自尊和经济自我效能感对成人教育和收入获得的影响，以及这些心理资源是否从一代传递到下一代，在几代人之间积累优势。我们提供的证据表明，自尊和经济自我效能感都与获得过程有关。青少年的经济自我效能感对成人教育程度有直接的积极影响，并通过教育计划产生间接影响。自尊对成人教育程度的影响完全是间接的，通过学业成绩。我们还发现有证据表明，经济自我效能感是从父母传给孩子的。我们的结论是，未来的研究应该从纵向多代的角度更广泛地考虑获得过程中的心理资源。
