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Erschienen in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 6/2010

01.06.2010 | Original Paper

Modeling risks: effects of area deprivation, family socio-economic disadvantage and adverse life events on young children’s psychopathology

verfasst von: Eirini Flouri, Stella Mavroveli, Nikos Tzavidis

Erschienen in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Ausgabe 6/2010

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Abstract

Background

The effects of contextual risk on young children’s behavior are not appropriately modeled.

Aims

To model the effects of area and family contextual risk on young children’s psychopathology.

Method

The final study sample consisted of 4,618 Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) children, who were 3 years old, clustered in lower layer super output areas in nine strata in the UK. Contextual risk was measured by socio-economic disadvantage (SED) at both area and family level, and by distal and proximal adverse life events at family level. Multivariate response multilevel models that allowed for correlated residuals at both individual and area level, and univariate multilevel models estimated the effect of contextual risk on specific and broad psychopathology measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.

Results

The area SED/broad psychopathology association remained significant after family SED was controlled, but not after maternal qualifications and family adverse life events were added to the model. Adverse life events predicted psychopathology in all models. Family SED did not predict emotional symptoms or hyperactivity after child characteristics were added to the model with the family-level controls.

Conclusions

Area-level SED predicts child psychopathology via family characteristics; family-level SED predicts psychopathology largely by its impact on development; and adverse life events predict psychopathology independently of earlier adversity, SED and child characteristics, as well as maternal psychopathology, parenting and education.
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Metadaten
Titel
Modeling risks: effects of area deprivation, family socio-economic disadvantage and adverse life events on young children’s psychopathology
verfasst von
Eirini Flouri
Stella Mavroveli
Nikos Tzavidis
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2010
Verlag
Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Ausgabe 6/2010
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Elektronische ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-009-0101-x

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