Deprivation and threat as developmental mediators in the relation between early life socioeconomic status and executive functioning outcomes in early childhood.

ABSTRACT: There has been a shift in the study of childhood adversity towards a focus on dimensions of adversity as opposed to a focus on cumulative risk or specific adversities. The Dimensional Model of Adversity and Psychopathology (DMAP) proposes deprivation and threat as core dimensions of childhood adversity. Previous work using DMAP has found links between deprivation and cognitive development and threat and emotional development in adolescence, but few studies have applied this framework to a poverty context, in which children are at heightened risk for adversity experiences, and none have examined outcomes in early childhood. We use data from the Family Life Project (n = 1292) to examine deprivation and threat at child age 24 months as developmental mediators in the association between socioe

SUBMITTER: Vogel SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7777490 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature