Adolescents' perceptions of family social status correlate with health and life chances: A twin difference longitudinal cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Children from lower-income households are at increased risk for poor health, educational failure, and behavioral problems. This social gradient is one of the most reproduced findings in health and social science. How people view their position in social hierarchies also signals poor health. However, when adolescents' views of their social position begin to independently relate to well-being is currently unknown. A cotwin design was leveraged to test whether adolescents with identical family backgrounds, but who viewed their family's social status as higher than their same-aged and sex sibling, experienced better well-being in early and late adolescence. Participants were members of the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study, a representative cohort of British twins (n = 2,232) f

SUBMITTER: Rivenbark J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7519389 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature