Direct and indirect links between children's socio-economic status and education: pathways via mental health, attitude, and cognition.

ABSTRACT: A child's socio-economic environment can profoundly affect their development. While existing literature focusses on simplified metrics and pair-wise relations between few variables, we aimed to capture complex interrelationships between several relevant domains using a broad assessment of 519 children aged 7-9 years. Our analyses comprised three multivariate techniques that complimented each other, and worked at different levels of granularity. First, an exploratory factor analysis (principal component analysis followed by varimax rotation) revealed that our sample varied along continuous dimensions of cognition, attitude and mental health (from parallel analysis); with potentially emerging dimensions speed and socio-economic status (passed Kaiser's criterion). Second, k-means cluster anal

SUBMITTER: Dalmaijer ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7614555 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature