TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Poverty and involuntary engagement stress responses: examining the link to anxiety and aggression within low-income families
JO  - Anxiety, stress, and coping
A1  - Wolff, Brian C.
A1  - Santiago, Catherine Decarlo
A1  - Wadsworth, Martha E.
SP  - 309
EP  - 325
VL  - 22
IS  - 3
N2  - Families living with the burdens of poverty-related stress are at risk for developing a range of psychopathology. The present study examines the year-long prospective relationships among poverty-related stress, involuntary engagement stress response (IESR) levels, and anxiety symptoms and aggression in an ethnically diverse sample of 98 families (300 individual family members) living at or below 150% of the US federal poverty line. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) moderator model analyses provided strong evidence that IESR levels moderated the influence of poverty-related stress on anxiety symptoms and provided mixed evidence for the same interaction effect on aggression. Higher IESR levels, a proxy for physiological stress reactivity, worsened the impact of stress on symptoms. Understanding how poverty-related stress and involuntary stress responses affect psychological functioning has implications for efforts to prevent or reduce psychopathology, particularly anxiety, among individuals and families living in poverty.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1061-5806
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615800802430933
ID  - ref1
ER  -