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The Role of Chaos in Poverty and Children's Socioemotional Adjustment
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There are growing levels of chaos in the lives of American children, youth, and families. Increasingly, children grow up in households lacking in structure and routine, inundated by background stimulation from noise and crowding, and forced to contend with the frenetic pace of modern life. Although widespread, chaos does not occur randomly in the population. We document that low-income adolescents face higher levels of chaos than their more affluent counterparts and provide longitudinal evidence that some of the adverse effects of poverty on socioemotional adjustment are mediated by exposure to chaotic living conditions.
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Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Evans, G. W., Gonnella, C., Marcynyszyn, L. A., Gentile, L., & Salpekar, N.
- Affiliations
- Cornell University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Evans, Gary W.
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2005-07
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 560-565
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2056065044
- Cited by
- 709
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 60 · 2021: 42 · 2020: 49 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 45 · 2017: 50 · 2016: 57 · 2015: 35 · 2014: 42 · 2013: 34 · 2012: 33
- FWCI
- 8.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (F31MH068089, 1F31 MH 68089-01A1)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (F33HD008473, 1 F33 HD 08473-01)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Keywords
- chaos, poverty, social-emotional adjustment, low-income youth, living conditions, household composition, crowding, noise, mediation, child development
- MeSH terms
- Child, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Helplessness, Learned, Humans, Male, Poverty, Social Adjustment, Socioeconomic Factors
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