Socioeconomically disadvantaged children face elevated risk for behavior problems. Greater understanding of the relationships between a range of socioeconomic factors and behavioral trajectories across childhood is needed to improve prevention efforts.
Behavior trajectories of youth are influenced by a range of demographic and socioeconomic factors.
This study examined whether dropping out of non-sport organized activities predicted increased externalizing behaviors and if youth attending socioeconomically disadvantaged schools were disproportionately affected.
Participation in organized activities during adolescence is associated with many positive psychological and social outcomes.
Using longitudinal data collected from a college cohort in the United States (N = 922), we examined the associations between systemic and structural factors (gender, race/ethnicity, family SES, and first-generation college status), financial parenting (teaching, and modeling behavior), and emergi
Taking ownership of one’s financial behavior can be considered as one of the important milestones of emerging adulthood. This study examined how parental financial socialization and college students’ financial behavior changes over time.
Combining work while attending college is a common strategy for youth with limited financial means to pursue postsecondary education.
Young adults’ decision to enter workforce or enrol in college may be impacted by their personal financial means and parental support. This study examined how personal financial responsibilities and parental social support is associated with youth’s engagement in employment or attending school.
Early childbearing is associated with a host of educational and economic disruptions for teenage girls and increased risk of adverse outcomes for their children. Low-income, maltreated, and foster youth have a higher risk of teen motherhood than the general population of youth.
Early motherhood (defined as bearing a child prior to age 18 years) is a risk factor for many negative psychosocial and economic outcomes.
While early exposure to poverty has been linked to decrements in children’s behavior through underlying pathways of parenting stress and depression, extant research has typically relied on the use of objective measures of socioeconomic status (SES) to test these associations.
Understanding the impact of the family's socioeconomic status on child behavior has important implications for minimizing problem behavior.
Previous research has established that the ability to manage emotions effectively is critical to healthy
psychological and social development in adolescents. However, less research has considered the relationships
Emotion regulation strategies have important implications for social and psychological well-being. This study investigated the role of two emotion regulation strategies, reappraisal and suppression, in the social adjustment of youth.
This study examines the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on the risk of internalizing or externalizing out- comes among juveniles.
Understanding the impact of youth's adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on externalizing and internalizing outcomes has important implications for prevention and intervention programs.
We assessed developmental and gender differences in children’s beliefs about their peers’ communication styles. We hypothesized that children hold more favorable beliefs (i.e., more responsiveness and less interruption) about communicating with same- gender peers than with other-gender peers.
Gender biases and beliefs can affect the quality of interactions in mixed-gender group settings, and an understanding of gender-related communication styles can help children improve the skills they need to thrive in mixed-gender settings.
In today’s service society, adolescents come into contact with money and financial products and services earlier and earlier.
Ensuring that young people are financially literate is increasingly important as the current economic climate requires them to engage in complex financial decision making. The current study explored the role of informal learning opportunities in the acquisition of financial literacy among youth.
We examined how subjective and objective financial knowledge were associated with relationship satisfaction through pathways of finance-related rewards (positive financial behaviors, perceived shared financial values with the romantic partner, or lower debt) in a sample of cohabiting or married y
Among young adults, attitude towards finance may be associated with relationship satisfaction with romantic partners.
Using the family financial socialization theory, this study investigated the financial knowledge and behavior of high school students’ contextualizing unintentional and purposive family financial socialization.
Financial socialization plays an important role in the development of financial knowledge and behaviors in youth.
We examine financial literacy and the returns to financial literacy education, specifically focusing on the racial financial literacy gap.
The racial wealth gap has garnered attention in the past several years and it can be partly attributed to a lack of financial knowledge. This study examined the racial differences in financial literacy and learning outcomes from financial education.
Almost three quarters of American college students use loans to fund their college education, although according to public discourse student debt is a critical problem.
Student debt is a serious concern among many American college students. This study examined the influence of financial literacy on college students’ perception of loan debt and their college financial decision and education related behavior.
Most financial socialization research focuses on two methods of learning: modeling and discussion. The purpose of this study is to qualitatively explore experiential learning as a third potential method of financial socialization used by parents.
Experiential learning is potentially an important method for understanding parental financial socialization. In this study, 90 families were interviewed about their experiences with learning about finances and money.