%0 Journal Article
%T Explaining the link between low socioeconomic status and psychopathology: testing two mechanisms of the social causation hypothesis
%J Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
%D 2005
%A Wadsworth, Martha E.
%A Achenbach, Thomas M.
%V 73
%N 6
%P 1146-1153
%X Two mechanisms of the hypothesized social causation of psychopathology--differential incidence and cumulative prevalence--were tested over 9 years in a nationally representative sample of 1,075 children and youths, ages 8-17 at Time 1 (1986). Analyses using parental responses on behavior checklists at 4 time points showed significant increases in clinical elevations for those of the lowest socioeconomic status (SES) on anxious/depressed, somatic complaints, thought problems, delinquent, and aggressive syndromes. This SES-linked differential incidence supports the social causation hypothesis that factors associated with SES contribute to variations in levels of psychological problems. SES-linked differential cumulative prevalence was found for withdrawn and somatic complaints; this finding indicates that low-SES cases do not improve as much as do middle- and high-SES cases, which results in greater accumulation of low-SES cases.<p /><p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I American Psychological Association
%@ 0022-006X
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-006X.73.6.1146