Poverty, Material Hardship, and Children’s Outcomes: A Nuanced Understanding of Material Hardship in Childhood [PDF]
Children, 2022 There are four distinct, related types of material hardship—basic expense hardship, food insecurity, housing hardship, and medical hardship. Extant research has not sufficiently accounted for the complex relationships between these different types of ...
Anika Schenck-Fontaine, Rebecca M. Ryan
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Effects of prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and childhood material hardship on reading achievement in school-age children: A preliminary study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 BackgroundChildren from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are at elevated risk for reading problems. They are also likely to live in neighborhoods with high levels of air pollution and to experience material hardship. Despite these risk factors,
Paige B. Greenwood +10 more
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The impact of material hardship severity and frequency on health outcomes: Evidence from New York City. [PDF]
PLoS ONEMaterial hardship - the struggle to meet basic household needs - regularly impacts millions of Americans. Despite a growing body of research on the impacts of economic deprivation, a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which the experience of ...
Trevor Memmott
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Material hardship, not household income, predicts impaired punishment learning: a computational reinforcement learning perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionSocioeconomic disadvantage has been linked to neurocognitive alterations in reward and loss processing, which may contribute to adverse psychological outcomes.
Zhen Wang +5 more
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The association between material hardship and physical and mental health among older adults: Multi-channel sequence Approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONEOlder adults often face financial difficulties due to declining physical and cognitive abilities, and rising healthcare costs exacerbate these issues. Despite a general decrease in poverty, the rate among those aged 65 and older has increased.
Oejin Shin +3 more
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Effects of material hardship on depression among adults in South Korea: insights from by the Korea Welfare Panel Study 2008–2017 [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Background Low socioeconomic status deemed by income-based measures is a risk factor for depression. Material hardship is commonly used as a multidimensional socioeconomic indicator to identify the struggles that low-income households encounter that are ...
Soo Hyun Kang +3 more
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Material Hardship in Families With Low Income: Positive Effects of Coparenting on Fathers’ and Mothers’ Parenting and Children’s Prosocial Behaviors [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Families with low income experience high levels of economic insecurity, but less is known about how mothers and fathers in such families successfully navigate coparenting and parenting in the context of material hardship.
Joyce Y. Lee +2 more
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Material hardship and secure firearm storage: findings from the 2022 behavioral risk factor Surveillance System [PDF]
Injury EpidemiologyBackground Firearm secure storage is an important public health practice due to its potential impact on reducing the incidence of accidental injuries, suicides, and thefts.
Alexander Testa +5 more
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Exploring factors associated with pregnant women’s experiences of material hardship during COVID-19: a cross-sectional Qualtrics survey in the United States [PDF]
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021 Background The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the financial insecurity of women and their families globally. Some studies have explored the impact of financial strain among pregnant women, in particular, during the pandemic.
Laura Johnson
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Material hardship, forced displacement, and negative health outcomes among unhoused people who use drugs in Los Angeles, California and Denver, Colorado: a latent class analysis [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Homelessness is a growing concern in the United States, especially among people who use drugs (PWUD). The degree of material hardship among this population may be linked to worse health outcomes.
Jesse Lloyd Goldshear +5 more
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