Developing Prospective Measures of Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children

Gubhaju, Bina; Rodgers, Bryan; Strazdins, Lyndall; Davidson, Tanya; Butterworth, Peter; Crosier, Timothy

doi:10.1007/s11205-012-0134-5

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“…The present work complements previous cross-sectional analyses which emphasised the policy and practical utility of multi-dimensional measures of adversity (Gubhaju et al 2013). These measures are valuable for profiling the pattern of adversity in population subgroups that represent the clients of services or the intended targets of policy reform or more specific interventions.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…Extending previous work by Gubhaju et al (2013), we determined in this paper whether the cross-sectional summary measures of material and psychosocial adversity were valid longitudinally. We investigated the longitudinal change and continuity of these summary measures over three waves (representing 4 years) of the survey.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…This work draws on the measures of family adversity developed by Gubhaju et al (2013) for the first wave of the LSAC. Some modifications were necessary to extend the original crosssectional summary measures of adversity and ensure that measures were comparable across the three waves used in the present study (see ''Appendix 1'' for more details).…”

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“…These constructs were further reduced to form two overall components of family adversity labelled (1) material and (2) psychosocial adversity. All of the adversity scores were previously validated against several outcome measures of child development in Wave 1 of the study (Gubhaju et al 2013). Figure 1 illustrates the conceptual domains of family adversity, the indicators within each one of these domains, the resulting eleven constructs revealed by factor analysis, and the two overarching components (''Appendix 2'' provides details on how each one of the indicator variables within domains have been defined).…”

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“…An earlier paper by Gubhaju et al (2013) described the development of these measures of adversity among families with young children using the first wave of data from the longitudinal study of Australian children (LSAC). This showed that psychosocial adversity was, overall, more closely correlated (relative to material adversity) with measures of family wellbeing and specifically with behaviour difficulties in the children.…”

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Prior studies on longitudinal continuity of adversity have mostly examined persistence of individual adversity, rather than of families and have focussed mainly on material disadvantage. However, adversity is multi-dimensional, and in the case of families with children, it includes psychosocial as well as material elements. While both material and psychosocial elements are recognized as critical to child development, these aspects of family adversity are often studied in isolation and there is a dearth of longitudinal evidence on the extent to which such factors are transient or persistent. Using the first three waves (

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Socio‐emotional adjustment throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic: A longitudinal study of elementary school‐aged children from low‐income neighbourhoods

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Children's socio‐emotional adjustment during the COVID‐19 pandemic could depend on their pre‐pandemic risk of heightened socio‐emotional distress and available resources. In a sample of elementary school‐aged children from low‐income neighbourhoods in Germany, we examined children's socio‐emotional adjustment throughout two pandemic‐related school closing periods of 5 months each and explored possible determinants of their adjustment. On three occasions before and after school closing, home‐room teachers reported on the distress of 365 children (Mage = 8.45, 53% female) and provided information on their family backgrounds and internal resources. We studied child pre‐pandemic risk of low socio‐emotional adjustment based on low basic care by families and group membership (i.e., recently arrived refugee, deprived Roma family). We studied child resources regarding families' home learning support during school closings and selected internal resources of the children (German reading skills, academic ability). Results showed that children's distress did not increase throughout the school closings. Instead, their distress remained at constant levels or even decreased. On pre‐pandemic risk, only low basic care was linked to higher levels of distress and worse trajectories. On child resources, home learning support, academic ability, and German reading skills were inconsistently linked to less distress and better trajectories depending on the school closing period. Our findings suggest better‐than‐expected socio‐emotional adjustment of children from low‐income neighbourhoods during the COVID‐19 pandemic.

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Development and Assessment of Cumulative Risk Measures of Family Environment and Parental Investments in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

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Developing Prospective Measures of Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Consistency and Continuity in Material and Psychosocial Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children

Consistency and Continuity in Material and Psychosocial Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children

Socio‐emotional adjustment throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic: A longitudinal study of elementary school‐aged children from low‐income neighbourhoods

Development and Assessment of Cumulative Risk Measures of Family Environment and Parental Investments in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

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