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Title: Poverty, Social Mediators, and Early Adolescents' Mental Health
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Albers, Alison Burke |
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Poverty, Social Mediators, and Early Adolescents' Mental Health Presented: Anaheim, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 2001 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Bias Decomposition; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children; Family Characteristics; Family Income; Gender; Health, Mental/Psychological; Household Composition; Neighborhood Effects; Parenting Skills/Styles; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Poverty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The literature on income's effects on children and adolescents far outpaces current knowledge about the potential ways in which income and its correlates actually operate. Drawing on twelve years of data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) data set, this paper examines how longitudinal patterns of poverty experiences predict children's mental health during early adolescence with a focus on social mediators -- namely family and peers. The analyses draw on two assessments of mental health across the transition from late childhood (10 and 11 years old) to early adolescence (12 and 13 old). The long-term income and poverty measures generally were not associated with externalizing and internalizing symptoms for both boys and girls within the context of the change model. Yet, current economic stress significantly predicted externalizing symptoms for girls. For boys, family disruption, maternal negativity and peer pressure contributed to externalizing symptoms throughout all the models. For girls, neighborhood disorder and parenting practices contributed to levels of internalizing symptoms. These findings underscore the value of identifying the features that produce mental health outcomes among early adolescents, and the processes through which the effects occur. |
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Albers, Alison Burke. "Poverty, Social Mediators, and Early Adolescents' Mental Health." Presented: Anaheim, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 2001. |