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Abstract
The relationship between sharing in childhood and political identity and opinions on national health insurance in adulthood were examined. It was found that sharing at age 5 was positively associated with a liberal political identity and endorsement of national health insurance at ages 23 and 32. These results remained after controlling for sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, ego-control, ego-resiliency, maternal egalitarian parenting attitudes, and paternal egalitarian parenting attitudes. In addition, analyses showed that the relationship between sharing and endorsement of national health insurance was independent of political identity.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This project was made possible by the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, which is housed by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. The data employed in this study derive from a 30-year longitudinal study begun with 128 three-year-old girls and boys, planned and conducted by Jack and Jeanne H. Block, involving a sequence of nine independent assessments based on personality and cognitive Life, Observational, Test, and Self-report (LOTS) measures.