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Title: Poverty and Adolescent Mental Health: The Role of Maternal Psychological Resources
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Goosby, Bridget J. |
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Poverty and Adolescent Mental Health: The Role of Maternal Psychological Resources Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meetings, March-April 2006 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Census of Population; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Poverty; Depression (see also CESD); Pearlin Mastery Scale; Poverty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Limited research has been conducted assessing maternal depression and mastery as predictors of adolescent mental health. Much focus has been targeted towards the familial context among young children. This study seeks to assess the impact of maternal psychological well-being on the depression and anxiety levels and social withdrawal in a sample of young adolescents between the ages of 10 and 14 (N=1265). Analyses using structural equation modeling find that the effects of experiencing poverty on adolescent outcomes are mediated by maternal depression and sense of mastery. When maternal mastery and depression are regressed on poverty and background characteristics, being in poverty is the strongest predictor of maternal psychological well-being. This study explores the effect of poverty duration on adolescents' internalized and externalized behavioral problems using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. This study builds on a body of research studying the familial aspects that influence mental health indicators of low-income youth by examining the pathways through which poverty impacts adolescent depression, anxiety, and social withdrawal. By exploring the mediational influences of maternal psychological well-being on the relationship between poverty duration and adolescent socioemotional outcomes of low-income youth, this study seeks to further elaborate the relationship between the family and adolescent experiences. This study is organized around the following set of questions: (1) How does the duration of time spent in poverty influence early adolescent mental health indicators? (2a) Do maternal depressive symptoms and sense of mastery mediate the impact of poverty on young adolescent mental health (2b) and to the extent that maternal mental health mediates poverty, what role does the mother's mental health play in buffering or exacerbating these outcomes? Finally, (3) to what degree does poverty predict mother's depressive symptoms and sense of mastery? |
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Goosby, Bridget J. "Poverty and Adolescent Mental Health: The Role of Maternal Psychological Resources." Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meetings, March-April 2006. |