Flouri Eirini, Midouhas Emily, Ruddy Alexandra
Department of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.
Department of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.
Health Place. 2016 Jan;37:8-15. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.11.005. Epub 2015 Dec 14.
We examined the effects of single-parent family status and high parental socio-economic status (SES) on the trajectories of children's emotional/behavioural adjustment in early-to-middle childhood (ages 3-7 years). We also assessed whether these family characteristics interact with the equivalent neighbourhood characteristics of shares of single-parent families and high-SES adults in predicting these trajectories. Using data on 9850 children in England participating in the Millennium Cohort Study, we found that family status and parental SES predicted children's trajectories of adjustment. Even after controlling for these family factors and key child and parent characteristics, the neighbourhood shares of high-SES adults and single-parent families were related (negatively and positively, respectively) to child problem behaviour. Importantly, children of low-SES parents in neighbourhoods with a high concentration of high-SES adults had fewer emotional symptoms than their counterparts in areas with fewer high-SES adults. Surprisingly, the adverse effect of single-parent family status on child hyperactivity was attenuated in areas with a higher share of single-parent families.
我们研究了单亲家庭状况和高父母社会经济地位（SES）对儿童在幼儿期到童年中期（3至7岁）情绪/行为调适轨迹的影响。我们还评估了这些家庭特征在预测这些轨迹时是否与单亲家庭份额和高SES成年人的同等邻里特征相互作用。利用参与千禧队列研究的9850名英国儿童的数据，我们发现家庭状况和父母SES预测了儿童的调适轨迹。即使在控制了这些家庭因素以及关键的儿童和父母特征之后，高SES成年人和单亲家庭的邻里份额分别与儿童问题行为呈负相关和正相关。重要的是，在高SES成年人高度集中的社区中，低SES父母的孩子比高SES成年人较少的地区的同龄人有更少的情绪症状。令人惊讶的是，在单亲家庭份额较高的地区，单亲家庭状况对儿童多动的不利影响减弱了。
