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Title: Poverty and Change in Children's Depression and Self-Esteem During the Adolescent Transition
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Tice, Peter Charles |
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Poverty and Change in Children's Depression and Self-Esteem During the Adolescent Transition Presented: Washington, DC, Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, August 2000 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Sociological Abstracts Keyword(s): Child Development; Child Health; Children, Mental Health; Cognitive Development; Depression (see also CESD); Health Factors; Home Environment; Poverty; Psychological Effects; Self-Esteem Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Research on mental health effects of child poverty and self-concept research are integrated for a study investigating the relationship between change in children's self-esteem and depression as a function of specific poverty experiences during the adolescent transition. The underlying hypothesis is that poverty status over time matters in describing a self-esteem and/or depression growth trajectory. In other words, self-esteem and depression growth trajectories should vary systematically by the specific poverty sequences children experience. The data for this paper come from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a multipurpose sample originally designed to study young women, ages 14-21, in 1979; in 1986, NLSY began collecting information on the children of these mothers every two years. The 1990, 1992, and 1994 waves meet the basic requirements for studying change with growth curve analysis. This paper, however, juxtaposes results from a growth curve model with those from a piecewise model. The piecewise model compensates for a tendency in the linear growth model to ignore change associated with the second data wave. The results are based on 895 children, between the ages 8-10 in 1990. The sample is subdivided by the eight possible poverty sequences between 1990 and 1994. The statistical models control for both child and mother demographics as well as three home environment variables measuring available levels of cognitive stimulation and emotional support and the physical conditions of the home itself. The results show that studying change with a piecewise model provides a different picture of who is changing and how they change compared to results based on a linear growth model. In many, but not all instances, the linear growth model misrepresents the change process of children with specific poverty experiences. As for control variables, the results show that the home environment plays a central role, especially cognitive stimulation available to children. |
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Tice, Peter Charles. "Poverty and Change in Children's Depression and Self-Esteem During the Adolescent Transition." Presented: Washington, DC, Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, August 2000. |