Abstract
This chapter outlines several promising ways to capture the respective roles of poverty (as defined by falling below a federally defined threshold based on families' total household income and family size), and co-occurring risks (such as job loss, residential, and household instability) in research on child outcomes in the context of adversity. As high-quality longitudinal data has become increasingly available and the methods for analyzing data are more sophisticated, our approaches to the measurement of poverty-related risk have become more complex. Exposure to poverty-related risk can be understood as dynamic, with consequences for children likely to vary as a function of timing, type, and context (e.g., households, schools, and neighborhoods). The impact of poverty-related adversity may also depend on both adults' and children's subjective experiences of material hardship and level of disadvantage relative to neighbors or peers. The authors draw upon a preschool experiment and subsequent long-term longitudinal follow-up of over 600 low-income children (the Chicago School Readiness Project or CSRP) to illustrate these approaches. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)
Original language | Undefined |
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Title of host publication | Families in an era of increasing inequality: Diverging destinies |
Editors | P. R. Amato, A. Booth, S. M. McHale, J. Van Hook |
Place of Publication | Cham, Switzerland |
Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
Pages | 201-212 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-319-08307-0 (Hardcover); 978-3-319-08308-7 (Electronic) |
State | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- *Childhood Development
- *Disadvantaged
- *Poverty
- Life Experiences
- Subjectivity