Does Residential Mobility Affect Child Development at Age Five? A Comparative Study of Children Born in U.S. and U.K. Cities

Autor/inn/en	Gambaro, Ludovica; Buttaro, Anthony; Joshi, Heather; Lennon, Mary Clare
Titel	Does Residential Mobility Affect Child Development at Age Five? A Comparative Study of Children Born in U.S. and U.K. Cities
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 58 (2022) 4, S.700-713 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gambaro, Ludovica) ORCID (Joshi, Heather)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001288
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Place of Residence; Mobility; Verbal Communication; Child Behavior; Child Development; Preschool Children; Correlation; Demography; Neighborhoods; Socioeconomic Status; Cultural Differences; Context Effect; Verbal Ability; Well Being; Behavior Problems; Individual Characteristics; Family Environment; Urban Areas; United States; United Kingdom; Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; British Ability Scales; Child Behavior Checklist; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Wohnort; Mobilität; Mobilitätsförderung; Kindesentwicklung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Korrelation; Demografie; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Kultureller Unterschied; Mündliche Leistung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Familienmilieu; Urban area; Stadtregion; USA; Großbritannien
Abstract	Residential mobility is a normal feature of family life but thought to be a source of disruption to a child's development. Mobility may have its own direct consequences or reflect families' capabilities and vulnerabilities. This article examines the association between changes of residence and verbal and behavioral scores of children aged 5, contributing to the literature in three ways. First, it compares two countries, by drawing on the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study in the United States (N = up to 1,820) and an urban subsample of the U.K. Millennium Cohort study (N = up to 7,967). Second, beside taking into account an extensive range of demographic characteristics, it applies inverse probability weights to minimize observable selection bias associated with residential mobility and further controls for a wide range of family changes that often co-occur with moves. Third, the article adds to extant research on residential mobility by incorporating the type of locality from and into which families move. Individual-level longitudinal data are linked to objective measures of neighborhood socioeconomic status to gauge the quality of moves families make. Results show that residential moves are not inevitably deleterious to children. In both countries the poorer outcomes of some moves result not from moving per se but rather from the context in which they occur. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11