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Title: Trajectories of Poverty and Children's Mental Health
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McLeod, Jane D. Shanahan, Michael J. |
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Trajectories of Poverty and Children's Mental Health Journal of Health and Social Behavior 37,3 (September 1996): 207-220. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2137292 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Health; Family History; Health, Mental/Psychological; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Poverty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The relationship between family poverty history & children's mental health trajectories was examined through analysis of data from 907 children from the 1986-1990 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. Analysis revealed that poverty histories in 1986 or prior were related to higher levels of depression in 1986 & that higher levels of depression persisted for a five-year period. Poverty histories subsequent to 1986 were not associated with depression trajectories. The number of years that children were poor between 1986 & 1990 correlated significantly with changes in children's antisocial behavior during those years. Children who were poor in each of these years had higher increases in antisocial behavior than transiently poor or nonpoor children. The accelerating behavioral disadvantages of persistent childhood poverty are discussed. 5 Tables, 2 Appendixes, 51 References. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1997, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) |
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McLeod, Jane D. and Michael J. Shanahan. "Trajectories of Poverty and Children's Mental Health." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 37,3 (September 1996): 207-220.
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