The long-term influence of childhood economic and social exposures on adult health and well-being is well-known. Most childhood circumstances transpire in or near the home, yet research has largely neglected how early exposures shape people’s experience of their residential context in adulthood. To help address this gap, we use retrospective longitudinal data from the Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) study. Drawing on a life course framework, we test the potential mediating roles of adult social, economic, and mental health processes. Results suggest that childhood parental warmth and maltreatment have an enduring influence on people’s satisfaction with their adult home, while there is little indication that childhood economic conditions shape adult dwelling satisfaction. Analyses of average controlled direct effects suggest that the effects of childhood parental warmth are mediated slightly by adult socioeconomic attainment and psychological adjustment but especially by supportive family relationships during adulthood. This pattern is consistent with an attachment-based interpretation of the importance of childhood conditions for adult relationships as well as home satisfaction. Taken together, our results suggest that parent-child bonds cast a long shadow over how people experience their residential context decades later, through a diffuse, multifaceted set of intervening pathways.

众所周知，儿童时期的经济和社会影响对成人健康和幸福的长期影响。大多数儿童时期的情况会在家里或附近发生，但研究在很大程度上忽略了早期接触如何影响人们成年后对其居住环境的体验。为了解决这一差距，我们使用了美国中年发展（MIDUS）研究的回顾性纵向数据。利用生命过程框架，我们测试了成人社会，经济和心理健康过程的潜在中介作用。结果表明，童年父母的温暖和虐待对人们对其成年家庭的满意度产生了持久的影响，而几乎没有迹象表明童年的经济状况会影响成年人对住房的满意度。对平均受控直接影响的分析表明，儿童父母对父母的温暖的影响是由成年人的社会经济素养和心理调节轻微地介导的，但尤其是在成年期的家庭支持关系中。这种模式与基于依恋的解释对童年状况对成人关系以及家庭满意度的重要性的解释是一致的。综上所述，我们的研究结果表明，亲子纽带对数十年后人们如何通过分散，多层面的干预途径来体验其居住环境蒙上了阴影。这种模式与基于依恋的解释对童年状况对成人关系以及家庭满意度的重要性的解释是一致的。综上所述，我们的结果表明，亲子纽带对数十年后人们如何通过分散，多面的干预途径来体验其居住环境蒙上了阴影。这种模式与基于依恋的解释对童年状况对于成人关系以及家庭满意度的重要性的解释是一致的。综上所述，我们的研究结果表明，亲子纽带对数十年后人们如何通过分散，多层面的干预途径来体验其居住环境蒙上了阴影。