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- Title
Income and Social Rank Influence UK Children's Behavioral Problems: A Longitudinal Analysis.
- Authors
Garratt, Elisabeth A.; Chandola, Tarani; Purdam, Kingsley; Wood, Alex M.
- Abstract
Children living in low-income households face elevated risks of behavioral problems, but the impact of absolute and relative income to this risk remains unexplored. Using the U.K. Millennium Cohort Study data, longitudinal associations between Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire scores and absolute household income, distance from the regional median and mean income, and regional income rank were examined in 3- to 12-year-olds (n = 16,532). Higher absolute household incomes were associated with lower behavioral problems, while higher income rank was associated with lower behavioral problems only at the highest absolute incomes. Higher absolute household incomes were associated with lower behavioral problems among children in working households, indicating compounding effects of income and socioeconomic advantages. Both absolute and relative incomes therefore appear to influence behavioral problems.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; BEHAVIOR disorders in children; INCOME inequality; INCOME; SOCIAL status; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CHILD behavior; COMPARATIVE studies; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; SOCIAL classes; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Child Development, 2017, Vol 88, Issue 4, p1302
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.12649