Trajectories of Poverty and Children's Mental Health

Using data from three waves of the Children of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth data set (1986, 1988, 1990), we examine the dynamic relationship between children's family histories of poverty and their developmental trajectories of mental health. Children who were poor in 1986 or who...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inJournal of health and social behavior Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 207 - 220
Main Authors McLeod, Jane D., Shanahan, Michael J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Sociological Association 01.09.1996
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Antisocial behavior
Behavior Problems
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Behavior - ethnology
Child Behavior - physiology
Child growth
Child, Preschool
Childhood mental disorders
Children
Children & youth
Cognitive models
Data Collection
Depression (Psychology)
Depressive disorders
Factors
Female
Humans
Linear Models
Medical sciences
Mental Health
Modeling
Poverty
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Risk Factors
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Social research
Sociocultural environment
Socioeconomic Factors
Trajectories
United States
USA
United States
Human
Mood disorder
Poverty
Mental health
Depression
Family story
Social status
School age
Follow up study
Mental disorder
Evolution
Child
Social behavior disorder
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Using data from three waves of the Children of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth data set (1986, 1988, 1990), we examine the dynamic relationship between children's family histories of poverty and their developmental trajectories of mental health. Children who were poor in 1986 or who had prior histories of poverty had higher levels of depression and antisocial behavior in that year. Furthermore, subsequent poverty histories were also related to children's mental health trajectories. The number of years that children were poor between 1986 and 1990 correlates significantly with changes in children's antisocial behavior during those years. Finally, rates of increase in antisocial behavior were substantially higher for children with histories of persistent poverty during those years than for transiently poor or nonpoor children. These results demonstrate the accelerating behavioral disadvantages faced by persistently poor children.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 23
ObjectType-Article-2
ObjectType-Feature-1
ObjectType-Feature-3
ObjectType-Review-1
ISSN:0022-1465
2150-6000
DOI:10.2307/2137292