The Ecology of Economic Disadvantage and Children's Sleep

Sleep and Development: Familial and Socio-Cultural Considerations

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ackerman, Brian P ^a   Brown, Eleanor D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's sleep; Class; Poverty; Socioeconomic status; Stress model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921058999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395754.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

References (64)

1. Ackerman, B. P., & Brown, E. D. (2006). Income poverty, poverty co-factors, and the adjustment of children in elementary school. In R. V. Kail (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior (pp. 91-129). New York: Academic Press.
2. Ackerman, B. P., Brown, E. D., & Izard, C. E. (2004a). The relations between contextual risk, earned income, and the school adjustment of children from economically disadvantaged families. Developmental Psychology, 40, 204-216.
3. Ackerman, B. P., Brown, E. D., & Izard, C. E. (2004b). The relations between persistent poverty and contextual risk and children's behavior in elementary school. Developmental Psychology, 40, 367-377.
4. Ackerman, B. P., Brown, E. D., Schoff D'Eramo, K., & Izard, C. E. (2002). Maternal relationship instability and the school behavior of children from disadvantaged families. Developmental Psychology, 38, 694-704.
5. Ackerman, B. P., Kogos, J., Youngstrom, E., Schoff, K., & Izard, C. (1999). Family instability and the problem behaviors of children from economically disadvantaged families. Developmental Psychology, 35, 258-268.
6. Adam, E. K. (2004). Beyond quality: Parental and residential stability and children's adjustment. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 210-213.
7. Adler, N. E., Boyce, T., Chesney, M. A., Cohen, S., Folkman, S., Kahn, R. L., & Syme, S. L. (1994). Socioeconomic status and health: The challenge of the gradient. American Psychologist, 49, 15-24.
8. Aikens, N. L., & Barbarin, O. (2008). Socioeconomic differences in reading trajectories: The contribution of family, neighborhood, and school contexts. Journal of Educational Psychology, 100, 235-251.
9. Appleyard, K., Egeland, B., van Dulmen, M. H. M., & Sroufe, L. A. (2005). When more is not better: The role of cumulative risk in child behavior outcomes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 235-245.
10. Belsky, J., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2007). For better and for worse: Differential susceptibility to environmental influences. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 300-304.
11. Belsky, J., & Pluess, M. (2009). The nature (and nurture?) of plasticity in early human development. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 345-351.
12. Boyce, W.T., & Ellis, B. J. (2005). Biological sensitivity to context: I. An evolutionary-developmental theory of the origins and functions of stress reactivity. Development and Psychopathology, 17, 271-301.
13. Bradley, R. H., & Corwyn, R. F. (2002). Socioeconomic status and child development. Annual Review of Psychology, 16, 371-399.
14. Brown, E. D., & Low, C. M. (2008). Chaotic living conditions and sleep problems associated with children's responses to academic challenge. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 920-923.
15. Buckhalt, J. A., El-Sheikh, M., & Keller, P. S. (2007). Children's sleep and cognitive functioning: Race and socioeconomic status as moderators of effects. Child Development, 78, 213-231.
16. Buckhalt, J. A., El-Sheikh, M., Keller, P. S., & Kelly, R. J. (2009). Concurrent and longitudinal relations between children's sleep and cognitive functioning: The moderating role of parent education. Child Development, 80, 875-892.
17. Carpiano, R. M., Link, B. G., & Phelan, J. C. (2008). Social inequality and health: Future directions for the fundamental cause explanation. In A. Lareau & D. Conley (Eds.), Social class: How does it work? (pp. 232-263). New York: Russell Sage.
18. Chen, E., Matthews, K. A., & Boyce, W. T. (2002). Socioeconomic differences in children's health: How and why do these relationships change with age? Psychological Bulletin, 128, 295-329.
19. Coll, C. G., Crnic, K., Lamberty, G., Wasik, B. H., Jenkins, R., Garcia, H. V., & McAdoo, H. P. (1996). An integrative model for the study of developmental competencies in minority children. Child Development, 67, 1891-1914.
20. Conger, R. D., & Dogan, S. J. (2006). Social class and socialization in families. In J. Grusec & P. D. Hastings (Eds.), Handbook of socialization: Theory and research (pp. 433-460). New York: Guilford Press.
21. Dearing, E., McCartney, K., & Taylor, B. A. (2006). Within-child associations between family income and externalizing and internalizing problems. Developmental Psychology, 42, 237-252.
22. Deater-Deckard, K., Dodge, K. A., Bates, J. E., & Pettit, G. S. (1998). Multiple risk factors in the development of externalizing behavior problems: Group and individual differences. Development and Psychopathology, 16, 469-493.
23. Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.). (1997). Consequences of growing up poor. New York: Sage.
24. Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2000). Family poverty, welfare reform, and child development. Child Development, 71, 188-196.
25. Duncan, G. J. & Magnuson, K. A. (2003). Off with Hollingshead: Socioeconomic resources, parenting, and child development. In M. H. Bornstein & R. H. Bradley (Eds.), Socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development (pp. 83-106). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
26. Ensminger, M. E., & Fothergill, K. (2003). A decade of measuring SES: What it tells us and where to go from here. In M. H. Bornstein & R. H. Bradley (Eds.), Socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development (pp. 13-28). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
27. Evans, G. W. (2003). A multimethodological analysis of cumulative risk and allostatic load among rural children. Developmental Psychology, 39, 924-933.
28. Evans, G. W., Gonnella, C., Marcynyszyn, L. A., Gentile, L., & Salpekar, N. (2005). The role of chaos in poverty and children's socioemotional adjustment. Psychological Science, 16, 560-565.
29. Evans, G. W., & Kantrowitz, E. (2002). Socioeconomic status and health: The potential role of environmental risk exposure. Annual Review of Public Health, 23, 303-331.
30. Evans, G. W., & Kim, P. (2007). Childhood poverty and health: Cumulative risk exposure and stress dysregulation. Psychological Science, 18, 953-957.
31. Evans, G. W., Kim, P., Ting, A. H., Tesher, H. B., & Shannis, D. (2007). Cumulative risk, maternal responsiveness, and allostatic load among young adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 43, 341-351.
32. Evans, G. W., & Wachs, T. D. (Eds.). (2009). Chaos and its influence on children's development: An ecological perspective. Washington: American Psychological Association.
33. Forman, E. M., & Davies, P. T. (2003). Family instability and young adolescent maladjustment: The mediating effects of parenting quality and adolescent appraisals of family security. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 32, 94-105.
34. Gallo, L. C., & Matthews, K. A. (2003). Understanding the association between socioeconomic status and physical health: Do negative emotions play a role? Psychological Bulletin, 129, 10-51.
35. Gerard, J. M., & Buehler, C. (2004). Cumulative environmental risk and youth maladjustment: The role of youth attributes. Child Development, 75, 1832-1849.
36. Gershoff, E. T., Aber, J. L., Raver, C. C., & Lennon, M. C. (2007). Income is not enough: Incorporating material hardship into models of income associations with parenting and child development. Child Development, 78, 70-95.
37. Gutman, L. M., Sameroff, A. J., & Eccles, J. S. (2002). The academic achievement of African American students during early adolescence: An examination of multiple risk, promotive, and protective factors. American Journal of Community Psychology, 30, 367-399.
38. Hollingshead, A. B. (1975). Four-factor index of social status. Unpublished manuscript, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
39. st century prospects. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 43, 125-142.
40. Hout, M. (2008). How class works: Objective and subjective aspects of class since the 1970s. In A. Lareau & D. Conley (Eds.), Social class: How does it work? (pp. 25-64). New York: Russell Sage.
41. Kaffman, A., & Meaney, M. J. (2007). Neurodevelopmental sequelae of postnatal maternal care in rodents: Clinical and research implications of molecular insights. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48, 224-244.
42. Kohen, D. E., Leventhal, T., Dahinten, V. S., & McIntosh, C. N. (2008). Neighborhood disadvantage: Pathways of effects for young children. Child Development, 79, 156-169.
43. Lareau, A. (2009). Introduction: Taking stock of class. In A. Lareau & D. Conley (Eds.), Social class: How does it work? (pp. 3-24). New York: Russell Sage.
44. Leventhal, T., Dupere, V., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2009). Neighborhood influences on adolescent development. In R. M. Lerner & L. Steinberg (Eds.), Handbook of adolescent development (pp. 411-443). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
45. Link, B. G., & Phelan, J. (1995). Social conditions as fundamental causes of disease [Special issue]. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 35, 80-94.
46. Magnuson, K. A., & Duncan, G. J. (2002). Parents in poverty. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting: Social conditions and applied parenting (2nd ed., vol. 4, pp. 95-121). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
47. Marmot, M. (2004). The status syndrome. New York: Henry Holt.
48. Massey, D. S. (2007). Categorically unequal. New York: Russell Sage.
49. Matheny, A. P., Wachs, T. D., Ludwig, J. L., & Phillips, K. (1995). Bringing order out of chaos: Psychometric characteristics of the Confusion, Hubbub, and Order scale. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 16, 429-444.
50. McElhaney, K. B., & Allen, J. P. (2001). Autonomy and adolescent social functioning: The moderating effect of risk. Child Development, 72, 220-235.
51. McLanahan, S. S. (1999). Father absence and the welfare of children. In E. M. Hetherington (Ed.), Coping with divorce, single parenting, and remarriage: A risk and resiliency perspective (pp. 117-145). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
52. McLoyd, V. C., (1998). Socioeconomic disadvantage and child development. American Psychologist, 53, 185-204.
53. McLoyd, V. C., Kaplan, R., Purtell, K. M., Bagley, E., Hardaway, C. R., & Smalls, C. (2009). Poverty and socioeconomic disadvantage in adolescence. In R. M. Lerner & L. Steinberg (Eds.), Handbook of adolescent development (pp. 444-491). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
54. Mirowsky, J., & Ross, C. E. (2003). Social causes of psychological distress (2nd ed.). Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
55. National Center for Children in Poverty, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. (2009). Fact sheets. Retrieved from
56. Pearlin, L. I. (1989). The sociological study of stress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 30, 241-256.
57. Repetti, R. L., Taylor, S. E., & Seeman, T. E. (2002). Risky families: Family social environments and the mental and physical health of offspring. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 330-366.
58. Schwartz, S. (2002). Outcomes for the sociology of mental health: Are we meeting our goals? Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 43, 223-235.
59. Simons, R. L., Lin, K. H., Gordon, L. C., Brody, G. H., Murry, V., & Conger, R. D. (2002). Community differences in the association between parenting practices and child conduct problems. Journal of Marriage and Family, 64, 331-345.
60. Taylor, S. E., & Repetti, R. L. (1997). Health psychology: What is an unhealthy environment and how does it get under the skin? Annual Review of Psychology, 48, 411-447.
61. Trentacosta, C. J., Hyde, L. W., Shaw, D. S., Dishion, T. J., Gardner, F., & Wilson, M. (2008). The relations among cumulative risk, parenting, and behavior problems during early childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 1211-1219.
62. Wilkinson, R. G. (2005). The impact of inequality: How to make sick societies healthier. New York: The New Press.
63. Wilson, W. J., & Gates, H. L., Jr. (2009). More than just race: Being black and poor in the inner city. New York: W. W. Norton.
64. Yeung, W. J., & Conley, D. (2008). Black-white achievement gap and family wealth. Child Development, 79, 303-324.