Institutional rearing is associated with lower general life satisfaction in adulthood |
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| Institution: | 1. National Register for Congenital Heart Defects, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Berlin, Germany;2. Division of Adult Congenital and Valvular Heart Disease, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany;3. Asklepios Klinik Sankt Augustin GmbH, German Pediatric Heart Center, Sankt Augustin, Germany;4. University Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Tübingen, Germany;5. Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partnersite, Berlin, Germany;6. Department of Paediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany;7. Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects, Berlin, Germany, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Berlin, Germany |
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| Abstract: | We analyzed whether individuals reared in institutions differ in their general life satisfaction from people raised in their families. The data comprised of 19,210 German adults (51.5% female) aged from 17 to 101 years and were provided by the SOEP, an ongoing, nationally representative longitudinal study in Germany. Compared to people raised in families, individuals reared in institutions reported lower general life satisfaction in the manner of a dose response relationship controlling their parents’ education and occupational prestige. The association was moderated by participants’ age such that with increasing age the association between institutional rearing and lower general life satisfaction decreased. Further, the relationship was partly mediated by the individuals own education/socio-economic attainment in adulthood, physical health, and relationship status. |
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| Keywords: | Life satisfaction Set point theory Early adversity Institutional rearing |
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