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Income and Social Rank Influence UK Children's Behavioral Problems: A Longitudinal Analysis

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Garratt EA, Chandola T, Purdam K & Wood AM (2017) Income and Social Rank Influence UK Children's Behavioral Problems: A Longitudinal Analysis. Child Development, 88 (4), pp. 1302-1320. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12649

Abstract
Children living in low-income households face elevated risks of behavioral problems, but the impact of absolute and relative income to this risk remains unexplored. Using the U.K. Millennium Cohort Study data, longitudinal associations between Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire scores and absolute household income, distance from the regional median and mean income, and regional income rank were examined in 3- to 12-year-olds (n=16,532). Higher absolute household incomes were associated with lower behavioral problems, while higher income rank was associated with lower behavioral problems only at the highest absolute incomes. Higher absolute household incomes were associated with lower behavioral problems among children in working households, indicating compounding effects of income and socioeconomic advantages. Both absolute and relative incomes therefore appear to influence behavioral problems.

Journal
Child Development: Volume 88, Issue 4

StatusPublished
FundersEconomic and Social Research Council
Publication date31/07/2017
Publication date online31/10/2016
Date accepted by journal11/03/2016
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/24854
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISSN0009-3920

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