Parental investment or parenting stress? Examining the links between poverty and child development in Ireland.

Autor/inn/en	Li, Mengxuan; Chzhen, Yekaterina
Titel	Parental investment or parenting stress? Examining the links between poverty and child development in Ireland. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Elterliche Investitionen oder elterlicher Stress? Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Armut und kindlicher Entwicklung in Irland.
Quelle	In: European societies, 26 (2024) 4, S. 911-951 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1469-8307
DOI	10.1080/14616696.2023.2275592
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Soziale Ungleichheit; Emotionale Intelligenz; Kognitive Kompetenz; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Sozialisationsbedingung; Familie; Kind; Soziales Verhalten; Stress; Armut; Investition; Auswirkung; Irland
Abstract	"This study investigates the relationship between multidimensional household poverty and cognitive and behavioral development during the formative years of childhood (from 9 months to 9 years), using nationally representative longitudinal data from Ireland for the cohort of children born in 2007-2008. The results indicate substantial inequalities in Irish children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes at age 9 by multidimensional poverty duration. Children with at least one spell in poverty (out of four interviews) have worse cognitive and behavioural outcomes. Dynamic structural equation models provide evidence in support of a hybrid family investment/family stress model. Although family investment processes account for some of the cumulative effects of childhood poverty on cognitive outcomes, family stress processes help explain the links between poverty and both cognitive and behavior outcomes in early childhood. Overall, poverty is strongly related to child outcomes over time via the direct effects of current poverty on child outcomes and path dependency in both poverty and child outcomes over time. There are also indirect effects via the two child outcomes reinforcing each other as children grow older (with the effects of behavior problems dominating those of cognitive ability), even as the parental investment and maternal stress pathways become less pronounced." The study refers to the period 2008-2017 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2025/1