How socioeconomic circumstances, school achievement and reserve capacity in adolescence predict adult education level: a three-generation study in Finland

Acacio-Claro, Paulyn Jean; Doku, David Teye; Koivusilta, Leena; Rimpelä, Arja

doi:10.1080/02673843.2017.1389759

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“…As shown in previous studies (Slominski et al 2011;Brekke 2015;Acacio-Claro et al 2018), school achievement has the largest effect on adult education. This is to be expected, as good grades obtained in high school strongly predicted enrolment in higher education (Brekke 2015).…”

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confidence: 67%

“…In this study, reserve capacity covers three dimensions, namely: perceived health, health-promoting behaviour and social support; with each dimension shown to independently predict adult education (Acacio-Claro et al 2018). We also add another factor, school achievement, as several studies have shown this to be one of the strongest predictors of adult education (Slominski et al 2011;Brekke 2015;Acacio-Claro et al 2018). Further, we propose that the pathways occurring in adolescence might interact with each other to affect adult education ( Figure 1).…”

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“…In early life, the socioeconomic status (SES) of the family is an important exposure which has been strongly linked to various developmental outcomes of children and adolescents, particularly educational attainment (Conger et al 2010;Merritt and Buboltz 2015;Acacio-Claro et al 2018). Previous research focusing on SES as a predictor of child development explained that such links probably occur through family dynamics, parenting practices and investments for children (Martin et al 2010).…”

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“…Moreover, both behaviours were found to serve as pathways from childhood socioeconomic position to adult education level (Koivusilta et al 2013), hence we included these variables in the present study. In this study, reserve capacity covers three dimensions, namely: perceived health, health-promoting behaviour and social support; with each dimension shown to independently predict adult education (Acacio-Claro et al 2018). We also add another factor, school achievement, as several studies have shown this to be one of the strongest predictors of adult education (Slominski et al 2011;Brekke 2015;Acacio-Claro et al 2018).…”

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Timing of puberty and reserve capacity in adolescence as pathways to educational level in adulthood—a longitudinal study

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Doku

et al. 2019

Annals of Human Biology

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Background: Family socioeconomic status (SES) is related to a child's educational success. Intermediate pathways for this relationship, such as through pubertal timing and reserve capacity, occur in adolescence. Aim: To study whether family SES affects a child's adult education through a psychosocial and behavioural pathway (reserve capacity) and/or a biological pathway (pubertal timing) or only through school achievement in adolescence. Subjects and methods: Finnish adolescents sampled in five cross-sectional surveys from 1985 to 1995 (n ¼ 37,876) were followed through the Registry of Completed Education and Degrees until 2009, when they were 29-43 years old. Family SES data also came from this registry. Structural equation modelling adjusted for ages at baseline and follow-up was used. Results: Low family SES increased the probability of low adult education, delayed pubertal timing (in boys), weak reserve capacity and low school achievement. Reserve capacity and school achievement directly affected adult education and mediated the relationship of family SES with the outcome. Delayed pubertal timing predicted low adult education, except when school achievement was added to the model. Conclusions: The results show that family SES affects the child's adult education level through psychosocial and biobehavioural pathways, but the biological pathway is mediated by school achievement.

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Timing of puberty and reserve capacity in adolescence as pathways to educational level in adulthood—a longitudinal study

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“…13,14,16 Parental socioeconomic determinants of offspring growth and development are also typically established well before pregnancy, 17,18 with the transition from adolescence to young adulthood marking a pivotal shift from family to individual educational, financial and other trajectories of socioeconomic attainment and role transitions. 14,19,20 The links between parental preconception exposures and early life offspring development have raised a question about whether preventive intervention should encompass the years before conception. 21,22 There are a range of possible mechanisms whereby preconception parental characteristics may affect offspring early life and growth, including the persistence of parental health risks and socioeconomic characteristics into pregnancy and the postpartum period, 23 and direct preconception effects on parental reproductive biology or the gamete that may affect future offspring development.…”

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Background: There is increasing evidence that parental determinants of offspring early life development begin well before pregnancy. Objectives: We established the Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort Study (VIHCS) to examine the contributions of parental mental health, substance use and socioeconomic characteristics before pregnancy to child emotional, physical, social, and cognitive development. Population: Men and women were recruited from the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort (VAHCS), an existing cohort study beginning in 1992 that assessed a representative sample of 1943 secondary school students in Victoria, Australia, repeatedly from adolescence (Wave 1, mean age 14 years) to adulthood (Wave 10, mean age 35 years). Methods: VAHCS participants with children born between 2006 and 2013 were recruited to VIHCS, and invited to participate during trimester three, at 2 months postpartum, and one year postpartum. Parental mental health, substance use and socioeconomic characteristics were assessed repeatedly throughout; infant characteristics were assessed postnatally and in infancy. Data will be supplemented by linkage to routine datasets. A further follow-up is underway as children reach eight years of age.Preliminary results: Of the 1307 infants born to VAHCS participants between 2006 and 2013, 1030 were recruited to VIHCS. At VIHCS study entry, 18% of recruited parents had preconception common mental disorder in adolescence and young adulthood, 18% smoked daily in adolescence and young adulthood, and 6% had not completed high school. Half of VIHCS infants were female (48%), 4% were from multiple births, and 7% were preterm (<37 weeks gestation). Conclusions: VIHCS is a prospective cohort of 1030 children with up to nine waves of preconception parental data, and three waves of perinatal parental and infant data. These will allow examination of continuities of parental health and health risks from the decades before pregnancy to offspring childhood, and the contributions of exposures before pregnancy to offspring outcomes in childhood.

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Transfers of disadvantage across three generations using latent class associations within families

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Hancock

Mitrou

et al. 2022

Aust J Social Issues

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There is a large volume of research on the persistence of advantage and disadvantage across generations. Intergenerational studies typically address family resources as independent factors, which ignores how risks cluster together and accumulate over time. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we conducted two latent class analyses to separately identify latent classes based on grandparent and parent characteristics for study children. We then examined the association between our identified latent classes and grandchild educational outcomes in Years 3 to 9. Five distinct latent classes of grandparent characteristics and four latent classes of parent characteristics were identified. There was association between parent and grandparent latent classes indicating intergenerational multiple disadvantage. Grandchildren in at‐risk parent latent classes tended to have significantly lower literacy and numeracy scores from Years 3 to 9. The effects of grandparent latent classes were inconsistent. The developmental circumstances of children can be defined using the characteristics of both parents and grandparents, and the role of grandparents on children's development extends beyond the influence they have on parent outcomes. This study highlights that addressing intergenerational transfers of disadvantage requires multiple, integrated and coordinated policy approaches that go beyond individual indicators of disadvantage.

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How socioeconomic circumstances, school achievement and reserve capacity in adolescence predict adult education level: a three-generation study in Finland

Cited by 17 publications

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Timing of puberty and reserve capacity in adolescence as pathways to educational level in adulthood—a longitudinal study

Timing of puberty and reserve capacity in adolescence as pathways to educational level in adulthood—a longitudinal study

Spry_VIHCS Study design_Preprint

Transfers of disadvantage across three generations using latent class associations within families

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