Family Income and Its Relation to Preschool Children's Adjustment for Families in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care

Autor/inn/en	Mistry, Rashmita S.; Biesanz, Jeremy C.; Taylor, Lorraine C.; Burchinal, Margaret; Cox, Martha J.
Titel	Family Income and Its Relation to Preschool Children's Adjustment for Families in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 40 (2004) 5, S.727-745 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Poverty; Family Income; Cognitive Development; Interpersonal Competence; Student Adjustment; Family Environment; Case Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Armut; Familieneinkommen; Kognitive Entwicklung; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Familienmilieu; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	The current study examines relations of mean-level estimates, linear changes, and instability in income and family processes to child outcomes and addresses whether income, through its impact on family functioning, matters more for children living in poverty. Temporal changes and instability in family processes, but not income, predicted children's adjustment. Cross-sectional mediational analyses indicated that for families living at the poverty threshold, family processes fully mediated the effect of average income over the study period on social behavior but only partially mediated its effect on cognitive-linguistic development. The strength of these associations diminished as average income exceeded the poverty threshold. That is, income had a greater impact on the family functioning and development of poor children than of nonpoor children (Author).
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