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- Title
Poverty-Related Adversity and Emotion Regulation Predict Internalizing Behavior Problems among Low-Income Children Ages 8-11.
- Authors
Raver, C. Cybele; Roy, Amanda L.; Pressler, Emily; Ursache, Alexandra M.; McCoy, Dana Charles
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
INTERNALIZING behavior; POVERTY; SYMPTOMS; BEHAVIOR disorders in children; ATTENTION; CHILD psychopathology; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences (2076-328X), 2017, Vol 7, Issue 1, pbs7010002
- ISSN
2076-328X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bs7010002