The relations between cluster indexes of risk and promotion and the problem behaviors of 6-and 7-year-old children from economically disadvantaged families

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作者
Ackerman, BP [1 ]
Schoff, K [1 ]
Levinson, K [1 ]
Youngstrom, E [1 ]
Izard, CE [1 ]
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[1] Univ Delaware, Dept Psychol, Newark, DE 19716 USA
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10.1037/0012-1649.35.6.1355
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B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
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This study examined the relations between alternative representations of poverty cofactors and promotion processes and teacher reports of the problem behaviors of 6- and 7-year-old children from economically disadvantaged families (N = 159). The results showed that single-index representations of risk and promotion variables predicted child aggressive behaviors but not child anxious/depressed behaviors. An additive model of individual risk indicators performed similarly. Smaller indexes representing clusters of parent adjustment variables and family instability variables, however, differentially predicted aggressive and anxious/depressed behaviors, respectively. The results suggest the importance of promotion processes and of representing environmental adversity at varying levels of specificity for children from economically disadvantaged families.
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