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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 113, Issue 52, Pages 14949-14952Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604756114
Keywords
childhood disadvantage; psychological health; stress; helplessness; memory
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- W.T. Grant Foundation
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health
- National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities Grant [5RC2MD00467]
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Childhood disadvantage has repeatedly been linked to adult physical morbidity and mortality. We show in a prospective, longitudinal design that childhood poverty predicts multimethodological indices of adult (24 y of age) psychological well-being while holding constant similar childhood outcomes assessed at age 9. Adults from low-income families manifest more allostatic load, an index of chronic physiological stress, higher levels of externalizing symptoms (e. g., aggression) but not internalizing symptoms (e. g., depression), and more helplessness behaviors. In addition, childhood poverty predicts deficits in adult short-term spatial memory.
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