Offspring Education and Parents' COVID-19 Vaccination.

ABSTRACT: Studies on COVID-19 vaccine uptake often focus on individual characteristics; however, fewer studies have assessed how the characteristics of family members might matter for vaccine decisions. This study employs a "social foreground" perspective to ask how the resources of adult children are associated with COVID-19 vaccine uptake among older adult parents. Using data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (N = 8086), we find that having a most-educated child who completes college is positively associated with parents' vaccine uptake when compared to having a most-educated child who did not complete college. This association is driven by respondents who themselves have a high school education or less, supporting resource substitution theory. Findings from this study extend the so

SUBMITTER: Applegate J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12269889 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature