Parental warmth buffers the effect of socioeconomic status on resilience during late childhood: evidence from a nationally representative birth cohort

• Main Authors: Yu, Meryl, Kee, Michelle, Meaney, Michael, Law, Evelyn, Eriksson, Johan Gunnar, Chen, Helen Yu, Setoh, Peipei
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176111
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

According to the Family Stress Model (FSM), chronic exposure to economic hardships bolsters risks of maladaptive development in children via the mechanism of parenting. Specifically, in face of later adversities, children of lowersocioeconomic status (SES) are found to exhibit less resilience than w...