Childhood Experience Influences Mood. Parents ignore warning signals from a moddy child and insist on something not interesting to the child. Indeed there are still professional therapists telling parents that their own mood and the way that they interact with each other has no real influence on their children. To be frank, this is dangerous nonsense!
Not only their overall relationship, but also their prevailing mood and outlook can be a powerful life-long influence on the way their children view the world and can affect their life-chances. A new study published in the recent issue of the Journal of Personality finds a correlation between adult pessimism and childhood in a low socioeconomic status family.
By connecting socioeconomic status to pessimism, which in turn has in earlier studies shown to be related to physical and mental health, the current study provides critical information for policy makers and parents concerned with preventing the development of bad coping strategies of children.
Researchers compared optimism and pessimism levels of participants from different socioeconomic backgrounds and found that persons of high SES had a more optimistic outlook on life. This is hardly surprising. Further, it was discovered that the effect of childhood socioeconomic status on pessimism tended to remain in spite of socioeconomic fluidity. http://www.upliftprogram.com/h_depression.html#h95
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Hello Vaneja
Quite a interesting post you gave us here to say the least, statistics statistics it seems that today everything as to be in a nice little box that somehow comforts us, human nature is what it is altough I agree some kids with low income parents or ''parent'' are more subject to pessimism I would not go so far to say its the norme.
Children the way I see it are like sponges...rich or poor parents they learn what they see and hear simple as that, to categorize pessimism in low income famillys to me is a reflection of how in our society we tend to put value in dollar signs...shame on us for that.
They are millions of children around the world that dont have all the commoditys and wealth that us north americans indulge in, I like to think that I am well traveled and I can assure you that I have seen ''poor kids'' that are most optimistic regardless of the condition they live in thay are the salt of this earth greeting you along the way with a smile and bright shiny eyes parents who learn them to share the little they have.
Suffolk