Could teacher-perceived parental interest be an important factor in understanding how education relates to later physiological health? A life course approach.

ABSTRACT: Education is associated with later health, and notably with an indicator of physiological health measuring the cost of adapting to stressful conditions, named allostatic load. Education is itself the result of a number of upstream variables. We examined the origins of educational attainment through the lens of interactions between families and school i.e. parents' interest in their child's education as perceived by teachers. This study aims to examine whether parental interest during a child's educational trajectory is associated with subsequent allostatic load, and whether education or other pathways mediate this relationship. We used data from 9 377 women and men born in 1958 in Great Britain and included in the National Child Development Study to conduct secondary data analyses. Parenta

SUBMITTER: Joannes C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8211281 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature