Poverty as a Predictor of 4-Year-Olds' Executive Function: New Perspectives on Models of Differential Susceptibility

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. R...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 2013-02, Vol.49 (2), p.292-304
Main Authors: Raver, C. Cybele, Blair, Clancy, Willoughby, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Factors
Biological and medical sciences
Biology
Child
Child Development
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Cognitive ability
Cognitive Development
Cognitive psychology
Correlation
Critical thinking
Demographic Characteristics
Demography
Developmental psychology
Early Childhood Development
Economic hardship
Executive Function
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Infant
Longitudinal Studies
Low Income
Low income people
Male
Models, Psychological
Models, Theoretical
Moderators
Neuropsychological Tests
Performance Factors
Personality
Poverty
Poverty - psychology
Prediction
Predictive Value of Tests
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Racial Groups
Regression Analysis
Risk
Self Control
Self-Regulation
Social Control, Informal
Socioeconomic Factors
Young Children
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Summary: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. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
ISSN:0012-1649
1939-0599
1939-0599
DOI:10.1037/a0028343