title: Moving in and out of Poverty: The Within-Individual Association between Socioeconomic Status and Juvenile Delinquency.
abstract: A family's SES can be changeable over time. This study was the first to investigate if such within-individual changes in family SES are associated with parallel fluctuations in boys' delinquent behavior from childhood to adolescence. Participants were a community sample of boys and their caregivers (N = 503) who were assessed annually for ten consecutive years spanning ages 7-18. Fixed effects models revealed that changes in familial SES were related to changes in delinquency: Youths were more likely to offend during years in which their parents' SES was lower than during years in which their parents' SES was higher. Contrary to expectations, we found no evidence that this association was accounted for by families moving to different neighborhoods or by changes in parenting. Since within-individual models provide a stricter test of causality than between-individual models, these findings support claims that impacting familial SES may have a direct effect on youths' delinquency.
authors.affiliation: Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Roderik
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rekker
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
authors.forename: Dustin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pardini
authors.affiliation: Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Loes
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Keijsers
authors.affiliation: Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Branje
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loeber
authors.affiliation: Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.|Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Meeus
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D016487:Parenting; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011203:Poverty; D012923:Social Class