Gassman-Pines Anna, Yoshikawa Hirokazu
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Dev Psychol. 2006 Nov;42(6):981-99. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.6.981.
The authors examined the effects of antipoverty programs on children's cumulative poverty-related risk and the relationship between cumulative poverty-related risk and child outcomes among low-income families. Samples included 419 children ages 3-10 years in the New Hope program and 759 children ages 2-9 years in the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), which tested 2 program approaches. Nine poverty-related risks made up the measure of cumulative risk. Both MFIP program approaches reduced cumulative poverty-related risk. New Hope reduced cumulative poverty-related risk among long-term welfare recipients. In both New Hope and MFIP, significant linear relationships between cumulative poverty-related risk and parent-reported behavior problems and school achievement were found. Cumulative poverty-related risk partially mediated the impacts of the MFIP programs on children's behavior problems. Among long-term welfare recipients, cumulative poverty-related risk partially mediated New Hope's impact on parent-reported school achievement.
作者们研究了反贫困项目对儿童累积贫困相关风险的影响，以及低收入家庭中累积贫困相关风险与儿童发展结果之间的关系。样本包括参与“新希望”项目的419名3至10岁儿童，以及参与明尼苏达家庭投资项目（MFIP）的759名2至9岁儿童，该项目测试了两种项目方法。九种与贫困相关的风险构成了累积风险的衡量指标。MFIP的两种项目方法都降低了累积贫困相关风险。“新希望”项目降低了长期福利领取者的累积贫困相关风险。在“新希望”和MFIP项目中，均发现累积贫困相关风险与家长报告的行为问题及学业成绩之间存在显著的线性关系。累积贫困相关风险部分介导了MFIP项目对儿童行为问题的影响。在长期福利领取者中，累积贫困相关风险部分介导了“新希望”项目对家长报告的学业成绩的影响。
