Income is not enough: incorporating material hardship into models of income associations with parenting and child development.

By E. Gershoff, J. L. Aber, C. Raver, M. Lennon. Child Development, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Socioeconomic Status, Family Processes, and Individual Development (2010, methodology): “…stress processes provide a better explanation of child and adolescent social emotional development whereas parental investments included in the IM provide a better explanation of cognitive development as suggested by some of the studies reviewed earlier in this report (e.g., Gershoff et al., 2007).”
The Structure of Material Hardship in U.S. Households: An Examination of the Coherence behind Common Measures of Well-Being (2009, background): “For example, child developmentalists treat material hardship as one latent variable with four dimensions (Gershoff et al. 2007).”
Expanding the Family Economic Stress Model: Insights From a Mixed‐Methods Approach (2008, background): “Indeed, results from several recent studies confirm that when the effects of family income on child well-being are traced through socialization processes, evidence of mediation is stronger for behavioral than cognitive outcomes (Gershoff et al., 2007; Mistry et al., 2004; Yeung et al., 2002).”
Decreasing the SES math achievement gap: Initial math proficiency and home learning environments (2015, methodology): “Six, the ECLS-K tested kindergartners in 1998, with test development probably occurring a few years earlier.”
The Dynamics of Economic Disadvantage and Children's Life Chances (2006, background): “More recently, researchers have begun to incorporate other concurrent measures of family economic circumstances such as material hardship (Gershoff et al. 2007; Mayer and Jencks 1989), family consumption (Haskins 1999), and wealth and debts (Conley 1999; Oliver and Shapiro 1995; Spilerman 2000)…”
Fathers' and Mothers' Home Literacy Involvement and Children's Cognitive and Social Emotional Development: Implications for Family Literacy Programs (2013, methodology): “Gershoff et al. (2007) used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) to examine the relation between multiple dimensions of parenting and African American, Hispanic, and Caucasian children’s academic and social emotional outcomes.”
Emergency Saving and Household Hardship (2016, background): “There is evidence that such hardship is associated with adverse impacts on a child’s physical health, social-emotional competence, and early development (Gershoff et al. 2007; Kainz et al. 2012; Yoo et al. 2009).”
Housing Insecurity, Maternal Stress, and Child Maltreatment: An Application of the Family Stress Model (2015, methodology): “While other studies ðnotably Mistry et al. ½2002 and Gershoff et al. ½2007 Þ includemeasures of housing-related problems in their operationalization of economic hardship, their focus is not to ascertain the relative influence of specific types of hardship, and they do not consider the range of…”
Best Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research (2013, background): “…of the adequacy of one’s standard of living (Conger et al., 2010; Mistry & Lowe, 2006) as well as experiences of material deprivation and hardship (Gershoff et al., 2007, Iceland, 2003; Mayer & Jencks, 1989), to “tap into” the more affective and psychological experience of poverty and economic…”