Relations among Culture, Poverty, Stress, and Allostatic Load

Daytime sleepiness underlies the link between adverse parenting and youth psychopathology among adolescent girls

“…Structural barriers, including a general lack of resources and increased levels of stressors, may underlie the heightened frequency of adverse parenting in low-SES families. Importantly, research has demonstrated a "biological embedding of poverty" (Doan & Evans, 2018), wherein lower socioeconomic status is linked with chronic psychological stress (e.g., allostatic load) and related self-regulation problems (Oshri et al, 2019). Thus, whereas youth who are reared in low-SES families may be at greater risk for negative health outcomes generally, family stressors like adverse parenting may serve as a potential pathway explaining the development of these outcomes, including disturbed sleep and psychopathology (e.g., Devenish, Hooley, & Mellor, 2017;Philbrook, Saini, Fuller-Rowell, Buckhalt, & El-Sheikh, 2020).…”

Three essays in health economics

“…There is a well-studied and documented direct connection between income and health -high-income people and countries are likely to be healthier. The positive slope is intuitive: after all, low-income people often face significant barriers to medical care access (Miller and Wherry, 2017;Khullar and Chokshi, 2018), are more likely to smoke (Cambron et al, 2019;Green et al, 2018), abuse drugs (Gibbs et al, 2018;Walker and Druss, 2017) (Gibbs et al, 2018;Walker and Druss, 2017), be obese (Alavi Hojjat and Hojjat, 2017), and face chronic stressors (Alavi Hojjat and Hojjat, 2017;Do, 2017) like financial hardship. These factors, in concert, can reduce immunity, increase vulnerability to disease, and cause poor health.…”