The Effects of Poverty on the Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health of Children and Youth Implications for Prevention
The Effects of Poverty on the Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health of Children and Youth Implications for Prevention
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DOI：
10.1037/a0028015
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发表时间：
2012-05-01
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
Beardslee, William R.
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作者：
Yoshikawa, Hirokazu;Aber, J. Lawrence;Beardslee, William R.
本文考虑了家庭贫困和儿童心理、情感和行为健康研究的最新进展对预防科学的影响。首先，我们描述了贫困的定义，以及估计贫困对儿童心理、情感和行为健康的因果影响的概念和经验挑战。其次，我们提供了一个概念框架，其中包括影响穷人的选择过程以及贫困似乎影响儿童和青年心理健康的机制。第三，我们使用这一概念框架选择性地回顾了越来越多的关于家庭贫困影响儿童心理、情感和行为健康机制的文献。我们说明，更好地了解贫困影响儿童心理、情感和行为健康的作用机制，对于为贫困儿童设计有效的预防性干预措施是有价值的。第四，我们描述了直接减少贫困的战略以及这些战略对预防的影响。这篇文章是一个特殊部分的三篇文章之一（另见Biglan， Flay, Embry, & Sandler, 2012; Munoz, Beardslee, & Leykin, 2012），代表了对国家研究委员会和医学研究所2009年报告中提出的预防科学主题的阐述。
This article considers the implications for prevention science of recent advances in research on family poverty and children's mental, emotional, and behavioral health. First, we describe definitions of poverty and the conceptual and empirical challenges to estimating the causal effects of poverty on children's mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Second, we offer a conceptual framework that incorporates selection processes that affect who becomes poor as well as mechanisms through which poverty appears to influence child and youth mental health. Third, we use this conceptual framework to selectively review the growing literatures on the mechanisms through which family poverty influences the mental, emotional, and behavioral health of children. We illustrate how a better understanding of the mechanisms of effect by which poverty impacts children's mental, emotional, and behavioral health is valuable in designing effective preventive interventions for those in poverty. Fourth, we describe strategies to directly reduce poverty and the implications of these strategies for prevention. This article is one of three in a special section (see also Biglan, Flay, Embry, & Sandler, 2012; Munoz, Beardslee, & Leykin, 2012) representing an elaboration on a theme for prevention science developed by the 2009 report of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine.