Higher levels of positive development in emerging adulthood were associated with stronger family and peer relationships, better adjustment to the school setting,
higher family socioeconomic status, and better emotional control.
Not exact matches
We now know that, in all
socioeconomic groups, children raised outside of intact two - parent
families are significantly more likely than their peers to drop out of
high school, end up in prison and experience serious psychological distress.
Limitations of the study included low response rate for control
families,
higher socioeconomic status in participants vs. nonparticipants, possible residual confounding despite multivariate analysis, and possible recall bias because of retrospective design.
In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving
families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders - rates
higher than in any other
socioeconomic group of American adolescents.
Children in
families and communities with low
socioeconomic status had a
higher risk of developing the disease.
She has shown that children from low
socioeconomic families tend to hear fewer words per hour than children from
high socioeconomic families.
As part of that effort, he recently found that children from lower - income
families responded much better to a summer reading program than children from a
higher socioeconomic background.
The study also found that factors including
family background, health, home learning, parenting and early care and education explained over half the gaps in reading and math ability between children in the lowest versus
highest socioeconomic strata.
• Both reading and math skills were closely correlated with the
socioeconomic status of the child's
family: The
higher the
family's status, the better the child's scores in both areas.
• Parents» supportive interactions, expectations for their child to earn a college degree and child's preschool attendance were
higher among
families in the
higher socioeconomic groups.
Children of
higher socioeconomic status show a similar brain response to adults, whereas children from lower - income
families generally show a much reduced response or none at all, Neville says.
Low stress resilience was associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes after adjusting for body mass index,
family history of diabetes, and individual and neighbourhood
socioeconomic factors — the 20 % of men with the lowest resistance to stress (scores 1 - 3) were 51 % more likely to have been diagnosed with diabetes than the 20 % with the
highest resistance to stress (scores 7 - 9) with diabetes risk decreasing in an approximately linear fashion with increased resistance to stress.
In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of
high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average
family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities;
higher percentage of
high school, college, or graduate school graduates;
higher median household income; and lower percentage of
families in poverty.
We find larger effects for low - income children, such that these reforms narrowed adult
socioeconomic attainment differences between those raised in low - vs.
high - income
families.
After taking into account differences in
socioeconomic status, we found that parents of
higher - achieving students are more likely to make a request, which perhaps reflects greater sophistication or interest on the part of these
families.
The effects of attending a
high - poverty school are not simply the aggregate effects of out - of - school poverty, either; the schools themselves disadvantage those who attend, regardless of their
families»
socioeconomic status.
Similarly, information on market price can inform decisions by states or localities on how to set sliding fee schedules or eligibility cutoffs so as to focus state expenditures on
families in greatest financial need, while not at the same time driving away
families with
higher incomes whose children can provide needed
socioeconomic diversity in daycare and preschool centers.
In fact, overall, children are coming into kindergarten today with
higher math skills than they were over a decade ago — a finding that holds true across
families of all
socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds.
Gender gaps in educational attainment, which are not unique to the United States, are more difficult to explain using conventional economic models than gaps based on
socioeconomic status or race, because males and females grow up in the same
families and attend the same schools.Recent evidence provides one possible explanation for the especially large gender gap in
high school graduation rates among blacks and Hispanics.
Even in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, minority children from
families of lower
socioeconomic status (SES) are less likely to attend schools that provide computer access in their classrooms than children in the
highest SES groups.
High - quality early childhood education has the greatest positive effect on children from lower
socioeconomic status and children who are at risk because of
family or community circumstances such as poverty and abuse / neglect, and children with disabilities and special needs (Stegelin, 2004).
Research found, Shanker noted, «that children from socioeconomically deprived
families do better academically when they are integrated with children of
higher socioeconomic status and better - educated
families.»
3 Moreover, in their book, Kahlenberg and Potter emphasize the importance of maintaining a focus on integration in education form; they quote Albert Shanker, founder of the charter school movement, saying, «children from socioeconomically deprived
families do better academically when they are integrated with children of
higher socioeconomic status and better - educated
families,» and «when children converse, they learn from each other.
If this is like most years, administrators at top schools such as Harvard and Stanford will try hard to find talented
high school students from poor
families in a push to increase the
socioeconomic diversity on campus and to counter the growing concern that highly selective colleges cater mainly to students from privileged backgrounds.
GEO Academies, utilizes the TAP framework to promote teacher and student advancement because we believe that regardless of
socioeconomic status of our students, they can all achieve at a
high level, pursue a four year college degree, and achieve their dreams and goals, regardless of where they live, what color they are, and what their
family education level is.
d.tech is a free public charter school that values diversity in race, ethnicity, gender,
socioeconomic level, sexual orientation, physical ability,
family structure and religion, and it encourages all students who believe that d.tech's innovative program might be a great fit for their
high school years to register for the lottery.
The research cuts across
socioeconomic lines finding, «low income African American children whose
families maintain
high rates of parent participation in elementary school are more likely to complete
high school.»
Within schools the proximity to black majority areas with lower
socioeconomic backgrounds makes them less likely to have to the cultural and social capital considered necessary for success, even if they themselves may have a
higher income than other
families in the area.
This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater
family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the
higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping
family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous
families compared with non-Indigenous
families.6 7 31 Additional
socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.
The trial regions are selected for their
high prevalence of
families experiencing
socioeconomic and psychosocial adversity, a mix of metropolitan and regional areas, and interest from the universal CFH services in participating in the trial.
Comparative Study of Regular and Vocational
High School Students on
Family Socioeconomic Status, Social Support, Self - Efficacy and Well - Being
In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant
families27 and
families with low
socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low
socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a
high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.
In the survey - linked cohort, positively associated
family characteristics included smaller
family size;
higher socioeconomic status; and parents who were older, were college graduates, reported excellent health, and received influenza vaccination.
Racial / ethnic minorities as well as those of lower
socioeconomic status (SES) experience
higher rates of
family violence as well as
higher rates of asthma37 than their white,
higher - SES counterparts.38 - 40 Analyses were therefore adjusted for maternal race / ethnicity and maternal education level.
Parenting support programs have been shown to have positive effects among
families with young infants at
high psychosocial risk.20 - 25 Our results suggest a benefit from the universal provision of parenting and child development support services to an unselected sample of
families with health coverage, who ranged from the affluent and employed to those at greater
socioeconomic and psychosocial risk.
Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent
family predicted lower
socioeconomic attainment among white women, white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent
families were more likely to drop out of
high school than were African American offspring from single - parent
families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent
families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.
In addition, many of the early intervention programs that have been shown to have positive treatment effects are resource intensive and target
high - risk
families, on the basis of
socioeconomic status, childhood disabilities, parental substance use, or child maltreatment.1
Family background, health, home learning, parenting, and early care and education factors explain over half the gaps in reading and math ability between US children in the lowest versus
highest socioeconomic status quintiles, suggesting a need for comprehensive early interventions.
The second problem is that the environmental factors examined in the studies usually cited as evidence for gene - environment interactions — for example,
high family conflict (Bergeman, Plomin, McClearn, Pedersen, & Friberg, 1988), low
socioeconomic status (Cloninger, Sigvardsson, Bohman, & von Knorring, 1982), or criminal parents (Mednick, Gabrielli, & Hutchings, 1987)-- can not account for differences between siblings reared together.
Being from a
family of lower
socioeconomic status, having a low reading age, and attending more than two primary schools led to significantly
higher costs with t tests but just missed significance using bootstrap tests, where lower values for confidence intervals were negative.
When the sample was divided into low (n = 54) and
high (n = 42)
socioeconomic disadvantage (SED)
families, a different picture emerged.
The
higher - than - population normal levels of psychological distress found among
families of children with ID might therefore be attributable to pre-existing
socioeconomic disadvantage (the distal cause), rather than child ID per se.
Students living in two - parent
families obtain
higher achievement levels than other students, even after controlling the student's
socioeconomic level and academic background (Cervini, Dari, & Quiroz, 2014).
Bogess (1998), also using the PSID, finds no effect of living with a single mother on children's likelihood of graduating from
high school independent of the
family's
socioeconomic standing.
A total of 1,341
families (58.7 %) agreed to participate in the first phase of the study, of which 451 (33.6 %) were of
high socioeconomic status (SES)[36], 581 (43.1 %) middle and 309 (23.3 %) low.
Longitudinal studies have consistently reported
higher rates of major depression and other psychopathology (anxiety disorders, conduct disorders and substance abuse disorders) in adolescents with an affectively ill parent than in control
families with similar demographic characteristics (age, ethnicity,
socioeconomic status and educational level).
The sociodemographic characteristics of the
families in terms of parental education,
high school dropout,
family poverty, welfare status, age at parenthood, and
socioeconomic status indicated an average level of disadvantage relative to the overall Canadian and Quebec populations, respectively (Statistics Canada, 2008, 2012a).
Based on these mixed results and limitations in generalizability, more studies are needed with (a) adequate controls for key
socioeconomic and
family composition factors known to be associated with behavior problems in children, (b) early assessment of temperament, (c) samples that include
higher risk children (e.g., low - income
families, children with health problems, etc.), and (d) controls for behavior problems that predate the exposure to recent
family conflict.
Given that many Indigenous
families and communities experience lower
socioeconomic status than non-Indigenous communities generally, then it should come as no surprise to find that some Indigenous young people living in poor physical and social environments experience
higher rates of cognitive / intellectual disabilities and poorer mental health.
These findings extend prior research on the processes through which
socioeconomic deprivation severity and
family functioning impact maternal harsh discipline within a
high - risk sample of low - income
families.