Like mama always said: family socio-economic status, maternal attitudes and leader role occupancy in adulthood.

IF 1.2 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Therese Reitan, Sten-Åke Stenberg
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Abstract

Leadership research has always recognised the importance of childhood factors for the occupation of formal or informal leader positions later in life. Still, empirical research in the field has mainly been based on retrospective accounts from selective and small samples. Such research has also concentrated on individual traits and experiences, less on characteristics of the family. Our aim is to fill this void by prospectively examining the role of the family of origin on educational attainment and holding a managerial position in adulthood. Analyses were based on the Stockholm Multigenerational Study, including register and survey data, regarding 3,088 males born between 1950 and 1976 and their mothers' attitudes to education and child-rearing in the late 1960s. Our results showed a significant effect of family socio-economic status (SES) on managerial role occupancy in late adulthood. This effect was mainly mediated through educational level. However, a noteworthy share of the total effect of family SES was channelled through maternal attitudes towards education. Positive attitudes towards education in the home environment accounted for an equally large share of the total indirect effect of family SES as the offspring's cognitive capacity did. Authoritarian attitudes to child-rearing among mothers were also found to have a negative impact on cognitive capacity and educational level - two well-known antecedents to leader emergence. Parental attitudes may boost or modify structural characteristics and individual traits associated with holding formal leader roles such as a managerial position - but also showed an independent effect several decades later.

就像妈妈常说的:家庭的社会经济地位、母亲的态度和成年后领导者的角色定位。
领导力研究一直认为,童年时期的因素对于日后担任正式或非正式领导职务非常重要。然而,该领域的实证研究主要是基于选择性和小样本的回顾性描述。这些研究也主要集中于个人特征和经历,较少涉及家庭特征。我们的目的是通过前瞻性地研究原生家庭对教育程度和成年后担任管理职位的影响来填补这一空白。我们根据斯德哥尔摩多代研究(Stockholm Multigenerational Study)的登记和调查数据,对 1950 年至 1976 年间出生的 3088 名男性及其母亲在 20 世纪 60 年代末对教育和养育子女的态度进行了分析。我们的研究结果表明,家庭社会经济地位(SES)对成年晚期的管理角色占有率有明显影响。这种影响主要通过教育水平来调节。然而,在家庭社会经济地位的总体影响中,值得注意的一部分是通过母亲对教育的态度产生的。家庭环境中对教育的积极态度与后代的认知能力一样,在家庭经济条件的间接总效应中占很大比例。研究还发现,母亲对抚养子女的专制态度会对认知能力和教育水平产生负面影响,而认知能力和教育水平是领导者产生的两个众所周知的先决条件。父母的态度可能会促进或改变与担任管理职位等正式领导角色相关的结构特征和个人特质,但在几十年后也会显示出独立的影响。
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