Poverty as a predictor of 4-year-olds' executive function: new perspectives on models of differential susceptibility - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2013 Feb;49(2):292-304.

doi: 10.1037/a0028343. Epub 2012 May 7.

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Poverty as a predictor of 4-year-olds' executive function: new perspectives on models of differential susceptibility

C Cybele Raver et al. Dev Psychol. 2013 Feb.

Abstract

In a predominantly low-income, population-based longitudinal sample of 1,259 children followed from birth, results suggest that chronic exposure to poverty and the strains of financial hardship were each uniquely predictive of young children's performance on measures of executive functioning. Results suggest that temperament-based vulnerability serves as a statistical moderator of the link between poverty-related risk and children's executive functioning. Implications for models of ecology and biology in shaping the development of children's self-regulation are discussed.

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Executive functioning (EF) at 48 months predicted by chronicity of income risk, where chronicity (i.e., a value of 0, 1, 2, or 3) is defined as the number of 12-month time periods in which family income falls at or below the U.S. poverty threshold.

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Executive functioning (EF) at 48 months predicted by chronic exposure to family financial strain, moderated by infant reactivity (and after adjusting for all covariates).

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