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From childhood to the later years — pathways of human development
Author(s)	Robert Crosnoe, Glen H Elder
Journal title	Research on Aging, vol 26, no 6, November 2004
Pages	pp 623-654
Source	http://www.sagepub.com
Keywords	Children ; Family relationships ; Life span ; Ageing process ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Are family experiences early in life related to patterns of adjustment and functioning in later life? This study builds on past research with the decades-spanning Terman sample of talented children, to explore this basic question. Multinomial logistic models identified three family experiences in childhood and adolescence - socio-economic status of the family of origin, early parental divorce, and parent-child attachment - that predicted membership in holistic profiles of ageing in the later years, as generated by cluster analysis of five social psychological factors. These associations from early to later life reflected both mediational pathways (adult experiences and current circumstances explained the observed influence of early experiences) and supplemental pathways (the significance of experiences in each stage were independent of each other). (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-050201202 A
Classmark	SBC: DS:SJ: BG6: BG: 3J: 7T
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