Socioeconomic Status, Family Processes, and Individual Development

By R. Conger, K. Conger, Monica J. Martin. Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010

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Research during the past decade shows that social class or socioeconomic status (SES) is related to satisfaction and stability in romantic unions, the quality of parent-child relationships, and a range of developmental outcomes for adults and children. This review focuses on evidence regarding potential mechanisms proposed to account for these associations. Research findings reported during the past decade demonstrate support for an interactionist model of the relationship between SES and family life, which incorporates assumptions from both the social causation and social selection perspectives. The review concludes with recommendations for future research on SES, family processes and individual development in terms of important theoretical and methodological issues yet to be addressed.

Subfields: Demography, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Contextual stress and maternal sensitivity: A meta-analytic review of stress associations with the Maternal Behavior Q-Sort in observational studies (2018, background): “such as relationship conflict or financial pressure (Conger et al., 2010; Lochner & Moretti, 2004; Machin et al., 2011; Rauer et al., 2008).”
• Socioeconomic Inequality in Children’s Achievement from Infancy to Adolescence: The Case of Germany (2020, background): “The existing literature has repeatedly highlighted the robust link between family SES and educational achievement (Conger et al. 2010).”
• Changes in employment and relationship satisfaction in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the German family Panel (2020, background): “Family stress theory postulates that acute as well as chronic stressful economic conditions, particularly a loss in income and related financial pressure in the household economy, can undermine relationship satisfaction and stability (e.g. Conger et al. 2010; Karney and Bradbury 1995).”
• Best Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research (2013, background): “…to the classification focus of absolute poverty measures, such as the FPT and SPM, focus on perceptions of the adequacy of one’s standard of living (Conger et al., 2010; Mistry & Lowe, 2006) as well as experiences of material deprivation and hardship (Gershoff et al., 2007, Iceland, 2003; Mayer &…”
• The COVID-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family (2020, positive): “Similarly, previous research shows that people who experienced economic hardship become less satisfied with their family life (e.g. Conger et al. 2010; Drobnic et al. 2010; Kornirch and Eger 2016).”