title: Poverty as a predictor of 4-year-olds' executive function: new perspectives on models of differential susceptibility.
abstract: In a predominantly low-income, population-based longitudinal sample of 1,259 children followed from birth, results suggest that chronic exposure to poverty and the strains of financial hardship were each uniquely predictive of young children's performance on measures of executive functioning. Results suggest that temperament-based vulnerability serves as a statistical moderator of the link between poverty-related risk and children's executive functioning. Implications for models of ecology and biology in shaping the development of children's self-regulation are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. cybele.raver@nyu.edu
authors.forename: C Cybele
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Raver
authors.forename: Clancy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blair
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Willoughby
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D044469:Racial Groups; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors