Geographic Variations in Cost of Living: Associations With Family and Child Well‐Being

Chien, Nina; Mistry, Rashmita S.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01846.x

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“…Focusing on these two waves allowed us to capture parenting across early childhood; that is, from when children were very young through the transition to school. All measures used in this study have been extensively used in prior research (Cheadle, 2008; Chien & Mistry 2013; Crosnoe, Leventhal, Wirth, Pierce, & Pianta, 2010, Gershoff et al, 2007; Mistry et al, 2010; Yeung et al, 2002) and demonstrated significant intercorrelations (age 2: r' s = |.07 - .36|; age 5: r 's = |.09 - .30|).…”

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Children's elicitation of changes in parenting during the early childhood years

Crosnoe

2015

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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Using a subsample of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B; n = 1,550), this study identified parents who engaged in more developmentally problematic parenting—in the form of low investment, above average television watching, and use of spanking—when their children were very young (M = 24.41 months, SD = 1.23) but changed their parenting in more positive directions over time. Latent profile analysis and other techniques revealed that parents who demonstrated less optimal parenting behaviors when their children were 2 years old were more likely to be African American, from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and experiencing greater depressive symptoms. Approximately half of such parents, however, made positive changes in their parenting practices, with 5% in the profile characterized by high investment and low use of spanking by the time that their children were in elementary school. These positive changes in parenting behavior were more likely to occur among parents whose children were already demonstrating early reading skills and less problem behavior. These potential “child effects”, suggesting that children elicited improvements in parenting, were more pronounced among higher income families but did not vary according to parents’ educational attainment. Findings from this study have important implications for intervention programs, suggesting that children's academic and behavioral skills can be leveraged as one means of facilitating positive parenting.

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Children's elicitation of changes in parenting during the early childhood years

Crosnoe

2015

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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“…Notably, parenting stress has been often used in isolation of other stressors (e.g., Manuel, Martinson, Bledsoe-Mansori, & Bellamy, 2012). Yet there are reasons to believe that parenting stress should be considered along with family stress since experiencing economic hard times increases parenting stress (Chien & Mistry, 2012) and subsequently affects partnership quality (Lavee, Sharlin, & Katz, 1996). …”

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Hard Times and Heart Break

Williams

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Goosby

2013

Journal of Family Issues

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We used the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study to examine an integrated mediational model linking economic hardship to relationship distress. Depressive symptoms, partner’s discord, parenting stress, and coparenting are combined into a joint model linking economic hardship to relationship distress among mothers and fathers in intimate relationships. Although economic hardship is significantly associated with each mediating factor, only discord is associated with both relationship distress and dissolution in the full model. Moreover, comparisons using multigroup structural equation modeling indicate that while economic hardship is associated with higher discord among both mothers and fathers, the influence is substantially larger among fathers. We suggest that the link between hardship and relationship distress is largely contingent on interactional processes (i.e., discord) and how mothers perceive their child’s father in the midst of economic hard times.

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“…FWB is a broad construct encompassing both individual and family-level variables, but is generally considered to include physical and psychological well-being, strong family relationships, financial security, and family protective factors, with interdependence among these FWB components (Buehler & O'Brien, 2011;Chien & Mistry, 2013;McKeown et al, 2003). Three core aspects of FWB are adult health and well-being, family selfsufficiency, and family resiliency (Buehler & O'Brien, 2011;McKeown et al, 2003).…”

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Supportive family contexts: promoting child well-being and resilience

Newland

2014

Early Child Development and Care

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Prevention and intervention programmes for children at risk aim to improve child well-being and resilience. They do so using both direct and indirect strategies, intervening with children but also considering broader contextual factors (such as family dynamics). Children's subjective well-being comprises five main components (physical health, mental health, self-regulation, social competence, and cognitive competence) and is predicted by person, relationship, and contextual factors. Children's resilience, or ability to beat the odds under adverse conditions, is predicted by similar protective factors. Family well-being (FWB) is one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of child well-being and resilience. Aspects of FWB (including adult health and well-being, family selfsufficiency, and family resiliency) have been shown to impact child well-being through positive parent-child interactions. However, risk factors (including poverty and living in geographic locales with limited resources or high levels of neighbourhood violence) can threaten both family and child well-being. Strategies are offered for promoting FWB as a means of supporting resilience and well-being in children at risk for violence, abuse, or neglect.Early intervention and child abuse prevention programmes have sought ways to improve child well-being and resilience directly (working one-on-one with a child) and indirectly (by improving parenting skills, thereby improving child outcomes). Research has shown that family well-being (FWB) provides a foundation on which to build positive parenting skills, and when children are parented in developmentally appropriate and supportive ways, their well-being and resilience are bolstered. There is new interest in exploring connections from FWB to child well-being, especially for vulnerable children who are at-risk for violence, abuse, or neglect. This paper will examine key components of child well-being and resilience, key components of FWB, risk factors for families, and strategies for promoting FWB as a means of supporting resilience and well-being in children at risk.Child well-being and resilience A child's subjective well-being is a critical indicator of environmental impacts on his/ her development from early childhood through adolescence (Children's Worlds, 2011;

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Geographic Variations in Cost of Living: Associations With Family and Child Well‐Being

Cited by 53 publications

References 33 publications

Children's elicitation of changes in parenting during the early childhood years

Children's elicitation of changes in parenting during the early childhood years

Hard Times and Heart Break

Supportive family contexts: promoting child well-being and resilience

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