The intergenerational production of health in South Korea

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ID3609682
AutoresGerry Veenstra (0000-0001-6917-3784, University of British Columbia, autor correspondente), Baekgeun Jeong (0000-0002-1655-5436, Gyeongsang National University)
Ano2016
Volume25
Fascículo3
Páginas288-299
Data de publicação2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHealth Sociology Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1446-1242 • E-ISSN: 1839-3551
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14461242.2016.1198983
OpenAlexW2463160161
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas33

Informed by Bourdieu and Passeron’s theory of reproduction, we investigated relationships between the cultural and economic capitals of South Korean parents and the capitals and self-rated health of their adult children in cross-sectional survey data from the 2006 Korea Welfare Panel Study. Parental education and childhood economic circumstances manifested independent associations with the self-rated health of the adult respondents. Much of the connection between parental capitals and respondent self-rated health was explained by respondent education. Educational attainment and household income but not receipt of monetary inheritance from their parents were significantly associated with the self-rated health of the respondents. Lastly, parental educational attainment was associated with the self-rated health of the women but not the men over and above the capitals held by the respondents themselves. Our study illuminates the importance of the intergenerational transmission of multiple forms of capital in the production of good health for South Korean adults. In particular, we propose that wealthy and well-educated South Korean parents employ their capitals to develop math and linguistics skills in their children that facilitate good performance in the standardised university entrance exams, success in the labour and/or marriage markets and, ultimately, good self-rated health for their adult children

Cultural capital · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Disadvantage · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Human capital · Political science · Receipt · Respondent · Self-rated health · Social science · Sociology · Welfare · Demography · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology