Huang Jin, Oshima Karen M Matta, Kim Youngmi
Washington University in St. Louis.
Soc Serv Rev. 2010;84(3):381-401. doi: 10.1086/655821.
Using two waves of data from the Child Development Supplement in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study investigates whether parental characteristics (parenting stress, parental warmth, psychological distress, and parent's self-esteem) mediate household food insecurity's relations with child behavior problems. Fixed-effects analyses examine data from a low-income sample of 416 children from 249 households. This study finds that parenting stress mediates the effects of food insecurity on child behavior problems. However, two robustness tests produce different results from those of the fixed-effects models. This inconsistency suggests that household food insecurity's relations to the two types of child behavior problems need to be investigated further with a different methodology and other measures.
本研究利用收入动态面板研究中儿童发展补充调查的两波数据,调查父母特征(育儿压力、父母温暖度、心理困扰和父母自尊)是否介导家庭粮食不安全与儿童行为问题之间的关系。固定效应分析考察了来自249个家庭的416名低收入儿童样本的数据。本研究发现,育儿压力介导了粮食不安全对儿童行为问题的影响。然而,两项稳健性检验得出的结果与固定效应模型的结果不同。这种不一致表明,需要用不同的方法和其他测量手段进一步研究家庭粮食不安全与这两种儿童行为问题之间的关系。