Zhang Xueqing, Veenstra Gerry
The University of British Columbia, Canada.
SSM Popul Health. 2022 May 26;19:101131. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101131. eCollection 2022 Sep.
We used cross-sectional data from the 2017 Chinese General Social Survey to investigate whether and how Chinese parents utilize their socioeconomic resources to facilitate the acquisition of socioeconomic resources by their children that in turn affect the self-rated health of the adult children. We found that father's type of work unit () and father's membership in the Chinese Communist Party were not independently associated with the self-rated health of survey respondents. Father's education was associated with the self-rated health of women, especially younger women, and self-reported childhood social class was associated with the self-rated health of men and older women, most strongly so for younger men. Two thirds of the association between father's education and self-rated health among younger women was statistically explained by personal socioeconomic resources and almost a quarter of the association between self-reported childhood social class and self-rated health among younger men was statistically explained by personal socioeconomic resources. Our study illuminates the importance of intergenerational reproduction in fostering the good health of Chinese adults, especially for those who grew up after the Chinese economic reform of the 1970s.
我们使用了2017年中国综合社会调查的横截面数据，以调查中国父母是否以及如何利用其社会经济资源来促进子女获取社会经济资源，进而影响成年子女的自评健康状况。我们发现，父亲的工作单位类型以及父亲的中共党员身份与调查对象的自评健康状况并无独立关联。父亲的教育程度与女性，尤其是年轻女性的自评健康状况相关，而自我报告的童年社会阶层与男性及老年女性的自评健康状况相关，对年轻男性的影响最为显著。在年轻女性中，父亲的教育程度与自评健康状况之间约三分之二的关联可由个人社会经济资源进行统计学解释；在年轻男性中，自我报告的童年社会阶层与自评健康状况之间近四分之一的关联可由个人社会经济资源进行统计学解释。我们的研究揭示了代际传承在促进中国成年人健康方面的重要性，尤其是对于那些在20世纪70年代中国经济改革之后成长起来的人。
