The Role of Poverty and Chaos in the Development of Task Persistence Among Adolescents

Fuller‐Rowell, Thomas E.; Evans, Gary W.; Paul, Elise; Curtis, Dorothy

doi:10.1111/jora.12157

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“…Such findings corroborate previous studies in which higher household chaos and lower SES were longitudinally associated with lower task persistence, an indicator of self-control among adolescents (Fuller-Rowell et al, 2015). However, the present study extends these findings by demonstrating how higher household chaos and lower SES may identify those who are most vulnerable to exhibit no growth in self-control over time, rather than simple associations with self-control for the whole sample.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…The detrimental effects of household chaos on self-control have been shown in early childhood with research indicating that higher household chaos at age three was associated with lower inhibitory control at age four (Hardaway, Wilson, Shaw, & Dishion, 2012). Similarly, other work has demonstrated that adolescents who spent a larger part of their early life in a more chaotic environment showed lower task persistence than adolescents in less chaotic homes (Fuller-Rowell, Evans, Paul, & Curtis, 2015). A recent longitudinal study has also revealed both poverty and household chaos (i.e., disorganization) measured in early childhood were significantly associated with poor self-regulation in kindergarten (Vernon-Feagans et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 76%

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Structural Home Environment Effects on Developmental Trajectories of Self-Control and Adolescent Risk Taking

Holmes

Brieant

Kahn³

et al. 2018

J Youth Adolescence

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Extant literature has demonstrated that self-control is critical for health and adjustment in adolescence. Questions remain regarding whether there are individuals that may be most vulnerable to impaired self-control development and whether aspects of the structural home environment may predict membership in these subgroups, as well as the behavioral consequences of impaired self-control trajectories. The present study utilized growth mixture modeling and data from 1083 individuals (50% female, 82% White) from age 8.5 to 15 years to identify four latent classes of self-control development. Additionally, higher household chaos and lower socioeconomic status at age 8.5 were associated with maladaptive trajectories of self-control at ages 8.5-11.5. In turn, maladaptive self-control trajectories at ages 8.5-11.5 were associated with higher risk taking at age 15. The results highlight the importance of increased structure and support for at-risk youth.

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confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 76%

Structural Home Environment Effects on Developmental Trajectories of Self-Control and Adolescent Risk Taking

Holmes

Brieant

Kahn³

et al. 2018

J Youth Adolescence

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“…23 Research has linked chaotic settings with a range of health and behavioral issues in children and adolescents. 24–26 A small number of studies have examined the relationship between household chaos and sleep, and most, though not all, 27 have reported increased levels of chaos associated with increased sleep problems in preschool 28–30 and school-age children. 31 Household chaos has also been found to mediate the relationships between SES and poor sleep in women 32 as well as between young children’s emotional/behavioral problems and bedtime resistance.…”

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confidence: 99%

Household chaos and sleep-disturbing behavior of family members: results of a pilot study of African American early adolescents

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Background Although disorganized, chaotic households have been linked to poorer sleep outcomes, how household chaos actually manifests itself in the behaviors of others around the bedtime of a child or adolescent is not well understood. Objective To determine whether household chaos was associated with specific, nightly sleep-disturbing activities of adolescents’ family members. Design Longitudinal study Participants Twenty-six African-American or multi-ethnic early adolescent (ages 11–12 years) and parent dyads, recruited from local schools and social-service agencies in greater Cleveland, OH. Measurements Over 14 days, each night at bedtime, adolescents identified family-member activities keeping them awake or making it difficult to sleep by using a smart-phone-administered survey. Household organization was assessed via parent-completed, validated instruments. A generalized linear mixed model examined associations between each activity and household-organization measures. Results Adjusted for the effect of school being in session the next day, an increasingly chaotic household was associated with increased odds of household members disturbing adolescents’ efforts to fall asleep by watching TV/listening to music (odds ratio [OR]=1.8, 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.2–3.2), phoning/texting (OR=1.7, 95%CI =1.2–2.9), or having friends/relatives over visiting at the home (OR=1.6, 95%CI =1.0–3.0). Conversely, a more chaotic household was associated with decreased odds of adolescents reporting that “nothing” was keeping them awake or making it more difficult to sleep (OR=0.6, 95%CI =0.4–0.8). Enforced sleep rules were inconsistently associated with sleep-disturbing behaviors. Conclusion Improving early-adolescent sleep may benefit from considering the nighttime behavior of all household members and encouraging families to see that improving early-adolescent sleep requires the household’s participation.

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“…Poor children have been associated with maladaptive coping strategies and may require support to employ the shift‐and‐persist strategy. Supportive role models have been shown to diminish the effects of childhood adversity on pathogenic mechanisms that may lead to chronic disease .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…110 Health benefits have been shown in decreased levels of inflammation in asthmatic children, 111 the regulation of inflammation in adolescents and their parents, 108 and the delay of disease progression in adults who have experienced childhood poverty. 112 Poor children have been associated with maladaptive coping strategies 113 and may require support to employ the shift-and-persist strategy. Supportive role models have been shown to diminish the effects of childhood adversity on pathogenic mechanisms that may lead to chronic disease.…”

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confidence: 99%

Attending, learning, and socioeconomic disadvantage: developmental cognitive and social neuroscience of resilience and vulnerability

Schibli

Wong

Hedayati

2017

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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We review current findings associating socioeconomic status (SES), development of neurocognitive functions, and neurobiological pathways. A sizeable interdisciplinary literature was organized through a bifurcated developmental trajectory (BiDeT) framework, an account of the external and internal variables associated with low SES that may lead to difficulties with attention and learning, along with buffers that may protect against negative outcomes. A consistent neurocognitive finding is that low-SES children attend to information nonselectively, and engage in late filtering out of task-irrelevant information. Attentional preferences influence the development of latent inhibition (LI), an aspect of learning that involves reassigning meaningful associations to previously learned but irrelevant stimuli. LI reflects learning processes clarifying the relationship between neurobiological mechanisms related to attention and socioeconomic disadvantage during child development. Notably, changes in both selective attention and typical LI development may occur via the mesocorticolimbic dopamine (MsCL-DA) system. Chaotic environments, social isolation, and deprivation associated with low SES trigger stress responses implicating imbalances in the MsCL-DA and consolidating anxiety traits. BiDeT describes plausible interactions between socioemotional traits and low-SES environments that modify selective attention and LI, predisposing individuals to vulnerability in cognitive development and academic achievement. However, positive role models, parental style, and self-regulation training are proposed as potential promoters of resilience.

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The Role of Poverty and Chaos in the Development of Task Persistence Among Adolescents

Cited by 13 publications

References 43 publications

Structural Home Environment Effects on Developmental Trajectories of Self-Control and Adolescent Risk Taking

Structural Home Environment Effects on Developmental Trajectories of Self-Control and Adolescent Risk Taking

Household chaos and sleep-disturbing behavior of family members: results of a pilot study of African American early adolescents

Attending, learning, and socioeconomic disadvantage: developmental cognitive and social neuroscience of resilience and vulnerability

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