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Low‐Income Mothers’ Private Safety Nets and Children’s Socioemotional Well‐Being
Author(s) -
Ryan Rebecca M.,
Kalil Ariel,
Leininger Lindsey
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00599.x
Subject(s) - socioemotional selectivity theory , prosocial behavior , fragile families and child wellbeing study , psychology , developmental psychology , welfare , well being , social psychology , political science , law , psychotherapist
Using longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Well‐being Study ( N = 1,162) and the National Evaluation of Welfare‐to‐Work Strategies ( N = 1,308), we estimate associations between material and instrumental support available to low‐income mothers and young children’s socioemotional well‐being. In multivariate OLS models, we find mothers’ available support is negatively associated with children’s behavior problems and positively associated with prosocial behavior in both data sets; associations between available support and children’s internalizing and prosocial behaviors attenuate but remain robust in residualized change models. Overall, results support the hypothesis that the availability of a private safety net is positively associated with children’s socioemotional adjustment.

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