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Income and children’s behavioral functioning: A sequential mediation analysis
- Source :
- Journal of Family Psychology. 28:936-946
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2014.
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Abstract
- Children from low-income households tend to exhibit higher levels of conduct problems and emotional problems, yet the pathways linking economic disadvantage to children's behavioral functioning are not well understood. This study uses data from the Early Steps Multisite (ESM) project (N = 731) to investigate associations between family income in early childhood and children's conduct problems and emotional problems in middle childhood. The study explores whether the associations from income to child conduct problems and emotional problems operate through maternal depressive symptoms and 3 family risk factors in early childhood-harsh parenting, parenting hassles, and chaos in the home environment. Results of a sequential mediation model revealed significant indirect effects of family income on children's conduct problems operating through maternal depressive symptoms and parenting hassles and indirect effects of family income on children's emotional problems operating through maternal depressive symptoms, chaos in the home environment, and parenting hassles. Implications of these findings for understanding processes through which income influences child functioning are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Conduct Disorder
Male
Mediation (statistics)
Family Conflict
Statistics as Topic
Mothers
Family income
Middle childhood
Developmental psychology
Child of Impaired Parents
Risk Factors
Humans
Affective Symptoms
Early childhood
Child
Poverty
General Psychology
Depressive symptoms
Disadvantage
Depressive Disorder
Parenting
Home environment
Negotiating
Family risk factors
Child, Preschool
Female
Psychology
Stress, Psychological
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19391293 and 08933200
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Family Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4b55dd8313f1b344426ec902c64417e0