{"id":504670,"date":"2010-04-02T04:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T08:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2010-04-02T04:16:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T08:16:38","slug":"%e2%80%9ccounterintuitive%e2%80%9d-social-science-finding-of-the-day-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/504670","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCounterintuitive\u201d social science finding of the day | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes because you might not find it counterintuitive, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.org\/pubs\/journals\/releases\/psp-98-4-645.pdf\">Self-Esteem Development From Young Adulthood to Old Age: A Cohort-Sequential Longitudinal Study<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The authors examined the development of self-esteem from young adulthood to old age. Data came from the Americans\u2019 Changing Lives study, which includes 4 assessments across a 16-year period of a nationally representative sample of 3,617 individuals aged 25 years to 104 years.<strong> Latent growth curve analyses indicated that self-esteem follows a quadratic trajectory across the adult life span, increasing during young and middle adulthood, reaching a peak at about age 60 years,<\/strong> and then declining in old age. No cohort differences in the self-esteem trajectory were found. Women had lower self-esteem than did men in young adulthood, but their trajectories converged in old age. Whites and Blacks had similar trajectories in young and middle adulthood, but the self-esteem of Blacks declined more sharply in old age than did the self-esteem of Whites. More educated individuals had higher self-esteem than did less educated individuals, but their trajectories were similar. Moreover, the results suggested that changes in socioeconomic status and physical health account for the decline in self-esteem that occurs in old age<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3357\" title=\"selfest\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/04\/selfest-300x197.png\" alt=\"selfest\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\"\/>As a person well under 60 but slowing walking in that direction I&#8217;m pretty heartened by this. On the other hand, I&#8217;m one o those people who also tend to think that &#8220;self-esteem&#8221; is a bit overrated, so I&#8217;m not <em>that <\/em>heartened.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.futurepundit.com\/archives\/007068.html\">Randall Parker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/eJGNHWVmjfo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes because you might not find it counterintuitive, Self-Esteem Development From Young Adulthood to Old Age: A Cohort-Sequential Longitudinal Study: The authors examined the development of self-esteem from young adulthood to old age. Data came from the Americans\u2019 Changing Lives study, which includes 4 assessments across a 16-year period of a nationally representative sample of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}