Capturing Environmental Dimensions of Adversity and Resources in the Context of Poverty Across Infancy Through Early Adolescence: A Moderated Nonlinear Factor Model.
Child Dev
; 92(4): e457-e475, 2021 07.
Article
in En
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| ID: mdl-33411404
Income, education, and cumulative-risk indices likely obscure meaningful heterogeneity in the mechanisms through which poverty impacts child outcomes. This study draws from contemporary theory to specify multiple dimensions of poverty-related adversity and resources, with the aim of better capturing these nuances. Using data from the Family Life Project (N = 1,292), we leveraged moderated nonlinear factor analysis (Bauer, 2017) to establish group- and longitudinally invariant environmental measures from infancy to early adolescence. Results indicated three latent factors-material deprivation, psychosocial threat, and sociocognitive resources-were distinct from each other and from family income. Each was largely invariant across site, racial group, and development and showed convergent and discriminant relations with age-twelve criterion measures. Implications for ensuring socioculturally valid measurements of poverty are discussed.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Poverty
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Income
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Aspects:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
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Infant
Language:
En
Journal:
Child Dev
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
United States