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Material Hardship and Child Socioemotional Behaviors: Differences by Types of Hardship, Timing, and Duration

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Zilanawala, Afshin, Pilkauskas, Natasha V.·2012·Children and Youth Services Review
DOI 10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.01.008PMC PMC3293402
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Child behavior problems are associated with long-term detrimental effects. A large body of literature looks at the association between income and child behavior but few studies examine this association with material hardship, an alternative economic indicator. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the following questions: (a) Is material hardship associated with child socioemotional behavior and are there differences by developmental timing, (b) Are particular hardships (bills, utilities, food, housing, medical) more strongly associated with child behavior, and (c) Are there differences in the association between short-term and long-term material hardship and child behavior? We find that children in households experiencing material hardship score significantly higher on externalizing and internalizing behaviors. Additionally, we find that a mother's inability to pay bills, experience of utility interruption, and housing instability are adversely related to child behavior. We also find that the association between material hardship and child behaviors is stronger at age 5 and that chronic aggregate hardship has a stronger association with child behavior.

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  • Zilanwala and Pilkauskas found that, taking other hardships into account, basic expense hardship and housing hardship were associated with children's externalizing and internalizing behavior problems, but medical hardship and food insecurity were not.

    “Using data from the FFCWS, Zilanwala and Pilkauskas [18] found that, taking other hardships into account, basic expense hardship and housing hardship were associated with children’s externalizing and internalizing behavior problems, but medical hardship and food insecurity were not.”

    From Poverty, Material Hardship, and Children’s Outcomes: A Nuanced Understanding of Material Hardship in Childhood (2022) · cites this paper as [18]

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  • The results are only partly consistent with the findings by Zilanwala and Pilkauskas, who reported significant associations between basic expense hardship and housing hardship with behavior problems among economically vulnerable families.

    “These results are only partly consistent with the findings by Zilanwala and Pilkauskas [18], who reported significant associations between basic expense hardship and housing hardship with behavior problems among economically vulnerable families.”

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Authors
Zilanawala, A., & Pilkauskas, N. V.
Affiliations
Columbia University (US)
Corresponding author
Zilanawala, Afshin
ORCID
Venue
Children and Youth Services Review
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-04
Volume
34
Issue
4
Pages
814-825
ISSN
0190-7409 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.01.008
PMC
PMC3293402
OpenAlex
W2086304356
Cited by
128
References
94
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI
7.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
Locations
  • Children and Youth Services Review (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD058486)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
Keywords
material hardship, child behavior problems, externalizing problems, internalizing problems, developmental timing, housing instability, food insecurity, health care costs, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

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