TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Childhood poverty and adult psychological well-being
JO  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
A1  - Evans, Gary W.
SP  - 14949
EP  - 14952
VL  - 113
IS  - 52
N2  - 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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0027-8424
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1604756114
ID  - ref1
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