There has been longstanding and widespread interdisciplinary interest in understanding intergenerational processes, or the extent to which conditions repeat themselves across generations. However, due to the difficulty of collecting longitudinal, multigenerational data on early life conditions, less is known about the extent to which offspring experience the same early life conditions that their parents experienced in their own early lives. Using data from a socioeconomically diverse, White U.S. American cohort of 1,312 offspring (50% female) and their fathers (N = 518 families), we address three primary questions: (1) To what extent is there intergenerational continuity in early life experiences (social class, home atmosphere, parent-child relationship quality, health)? (2) Is intergenerational continuity in early life experiences greater for some domains of experience compared to others? and (3) Are there person-level (offspring sex, birth order, perceptions of marital stability) and family-level factors (family size, father education level and education mobility, marital stability) that moderate intergenerational continuity? Multilevel models indicated that intergenerational continuity was particularly robust for childhood social class, but nonsignificant for other early life experiences. Further, intergenerational continuity was moderated by several family-level factors, such that families with higher father education/mobility and marital stability, tended to have offspring with the most optimal early life experiences, regardless of what their father experienced in early life. We discuss the broader theoretical implications for family systems, as well as practical implications for individual-level and family-level interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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早期生活经历是否具有代际连续性？哈佛大学成人发展研究的结果。

人们长期以来对理解代际过程或条件在代际间重复的程度产生了广泛的跨学科兴趣。然而，由于收集有关早期生活状况的纵向、多代数据的困难，人们对后代在多大程度上经历了与父母早年经历相同的早期生活状况知之甚少。使用来自社会经济多元化的美国白人群体的 1,312 名后代（50% 女性）及其父亲（N = 518 个家庭）的数据，我们解决了三个主要问题：(1) 早期生活经历的代际连续性在多大程度上存在（社会阶层、家庭氛围、亲子关系质量、健康状况）？(2) 与其他领域相比，早期生活经历的某些领域的代际连续性是否更大？（3）是否存在个人层面（后代性别、出生顺序、对婚姻稳定性的看法）和家庭层面的因素（家庭规模、父亲教育水平和教育流动性、婚姻稳定性）调节代际连续性？多层次模型表明，代际连续性对于童年社会阶层尤其重要，但对于其他早期生活经历而言并不显着。此外，代际连续性受到几个家庭层面的因素的调节，例如父亲受教育程度较高/流动性较高且婚姻稳定的家庭往往会拥有拥有最佳早期生活经历的后代，无论他们的父亲在早期生活中经历了什么。我们讨论对家庭系统更广泛的理论意义，以及对个人层面和家庭层面干预措施的实际意义。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。