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

Year: 2012

Type: article

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.

Source: Developmental Psychology

DOI: 10.1037/a0028343

Authors: C. Cybele Raver, Family Life Project Key Investigators, Clancy Blair, Michael Willoughby

Institutions: New York University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania State University

Language: English

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development