Effect of socioeconomic status on behavioral problems from preschool to early elementary school - A Japanese longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Social inequalities are widely accepted to have a deleterious effect on children's mental health, and those with lower socioeconomic status generally experience more mental health issues. In this study, we examine the impact of socioeconomic situations of children's families during their early childhood on the children's social adaptation in Japanese elementary school.

Methods

The current investigation consisted of two sets of data relating to two separate years (with a one-year interval). The participants included preschoolers aged five years at Time 1 (the first year) and first graders aged six years at Time 2 (the second year); 1,712 met the inclusion criteria for both years. Parents of the participants completed a self-reported questionnaire regarding their SES (

SUBMITTER: Hosokawa R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5967727 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature