Font Sarah, Haddock Potter Marina
Department of Sociology and Criminology, Pennsylvania State University, 505 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16801,
Department of Sociology and Criminology, Pennsylvania State University.
Sociol Inq. 2019 May;89(2):263-287. doi: 10.1111/soin.12262. Epub 2018 Dec 7.
We examined social and economic resources in the environments of children involved with child protective services and their associations with children's cognitive performance.
We used a national dataset of child protection investigations (children ages 6 to 16 at wave 1). Using latent class analysis, we constructed profiles of the financial resources, parental education and employment, and family structure and size. We then examined within- and across-time associations between resource environment profiles and children's math and reading scores, and tested whether associations differed by family care type.
Our latent class analysis identified four distinct family resource environments: educated middle class, single earner, large working class, and severely disadvantaged. Family resource environment profiles predicted current cognitive performance and changes in performance over time, but associations were more consistent for children in biological family care.
Children who remain in home following maltreatment allegations may benefit from services that target social as well as economic resources.
我们研究了涉及儿童保护服务的儿童所处环境中的社会和经济资源，以及这些资源与儿童认知表现之间的关联。
我们使用了一个全国性的儿童保护调查数据集（第1波调查时年龄为6至16岁的儿童）。通过潜在类别分析，我们构建了财务资源、父母教育程度和就业情况以及家庭结构和规模的概况。然后，我们研究了资源环境概况与儿童数学和阅读成绩之间的组内和跨期关联，并测试了这些关联是否因家庭照料类型而异。
我们的潜在类别分析确定了四种不同的家庭资源环境：受过教育的中产阶级、单收入家庭、大型工人阶级家庭和极度贫困家庭。家庭资源环境概况预测了当前的认知表现以及随时间推移的表现变化，但对于亲生家庭照料中的儿童，关联更为一致。
在遭受虐待指控后仍留在家中的儿童可能会受益于针对社会和经济资源的服务。
