Disentangling the Influence of Socioeconomic Risks on Children's Early Self-Control

Abstract: Objective: Previous studies have shown that individual differences in self-control emerge early in childhood and predict a range of important outcomes throughout childhood and adulthood. There is, however, less knowledge about the social origins of self-control, including the mechanisms by which early socioeconomic adversity may lead to lower levels of self-control. This study aimed to extend understanding of the link between socioeconomic adversity and self-control by (a) testing which individual aspects of socioeconomic risk uniquely predict lower self-control; (b) testing whether objective socioeconomic risk operates independently of, or via, subjective parental stress; and (c) examining the interplay of socioeconomic risk factors and individual differences in children's temperament as predictors of early self-control. Method: Data were from a UK population birth cohort of 18,552 children born in 2000 and 2001. Results: Multiple individual socioeconomic risk factors have indepen

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Journal of Personality ; 85 (2017) 6 ; 793-806

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2017
• Creator: Ng-Knight, Terry ; Schoon, Ingrid

Further information

• DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12288
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021100709075777034464
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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