Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael - 2011
In this paper we address the question of how much of adult life satisfaction is predicted by childhood traits, parental … lives this cohort has been asked about their life satisfaction (at ages 33, 42, 46, and 50). A substantive finding is that … characteristics of the child and family at birth predict no more than 1.2% of the variance in average adult life satisfaction. A …