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Poverty-Related Adversity and Emotion Regulation Predict Internalizing Behavior Problems among Low-Income Children Ages 8–11

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Raver, C., Roy, Amanda, Pressler, Emily, Ursache, Alexandra, Charles McCoy, Dana·2016·Behavioral Sciences
DOI 10.3390/bs7010002PMC PMC5371746
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The current study examines the additive and joint roles of chronic poverty-related adversity and three candidate neurocognitive processes of emotion regulation (ER)—including: (i) attention bias to threat (ABT); (ii) accuracy of facial emotion appraisal (FEA); and (iii) negative affect (NA)—for low-income, ethnic minority children’s internalizing problems (N = 338). Children were enrolled in the current study from publicly funded preschools, with poverty-related adversity assessed at multiple time points from early to middle childhood. Field-based administration of neurocognitively-informed assessments of ABT, FEA and NA as well as parental report of internalizing symptoms were collected when children were ages 8–11, 6 years after baseline. Results suggest that chronic exposure to poverty-related adversity from early to middle childhood predicted higher levels of internalizing symptomatology when children are ages 8–11, even after controlling for initial poverty status and early internalizing symptoms in preschool. Moreover, each of the 3 hypothesized components of ER played an independent and statistically significant role in predicting children’s parent-reported internalizing symptoms at the 6-year follow-up, even after controlling for early and chronic poverty-related adversity.

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  • Increasingly, scholars are investigating material hardship as a more direct and relevant measure of children's economic vulnerability than income poverty, and evidence suggests material hardship is harmful to children.

    “Increasingly, scholars are also investigating material hardship as a more direct and relevant measure of children’s economic vulnerability than income poverty, and the evidence suggests that material hardship is harmful to children [9,10].”

    From Poverty, Material Hardship, and Children’s Outcomes: A Nuanced Understanding of Material Hardship in Childhood (2022) · cites this paper as [9]

    The Measures section defines poverty-related adversity using unpaid bills, lost utilities, and difficulty making ends meet, alongside household income. The Results section reports that chronic exposure to this combined measure predicts more internalizing problems in fifth grade. The paper does not establish that material hardship is a more direct or relevant measure than income poverty, or isolate material hardship’s effect from income in that finding. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  1. [35]Spielberger C.D. Edwards C.D. Lushene R.E. Montuori J. Platzek D. STAIC: Preliminary Manual Consulting Psychologists Press Palo Alto, CA, USA 1973

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Authors
Raver, C., Roy, A., Pressler, E., Ursache, A., & Charles McCoy, D.
Affiliations
  • New York University (US)
  • University of Illinois Chicago (US)
  • Columbia University (US)
  • Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Corresponding author
Raver, C.
ORCID
Venue
Behavioral Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2016-12-29
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
2
ISSN
2076-328X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/bs7010002
PMC
PMC5371746
OpenAlex
W2561567144
Cited by
33
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2
FWCI
3.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Behavioral Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University)
Funders
NIH (R01HD046160)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
Keywords
chronic poverty, emotion regulation, internalizing problems, low-income children, attention bias to threat, negative affect, ethnic minority children, preschool children, early childhood, middle childhood

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