Childhood poverty, cumulative risk exposure, and mental health in emerging adults

GW Evans, RC Cassells - Clinical Psychological Science, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
… mediational pathway to help explain why poverty might lead to subsequent adult … childhood
poverty can lead to ill mental health in adulthood is because of a surfeit of risk exposures

The environment of childhood poverty.

GW Evans - American psychologist, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
risks rather than singular risk exposure may be an especially pathogenic aspect of childhood
poverty… I focus on income and childhood environmental risk except in cases where useful …

Childhood poverty and young adults' allostatic load: The mediating role of childhood cumulative risk exposure

GW Evans, P Kim - Psychological science, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
… Although our results suggest that childhood poverty leads to elevated allostatic load … risk
exposure during childhood, an alternative explanation is tenable. Perhaps childhood poverty

Childhood poverty and health: Cumulative risk exposure and stress dysregulation

GW Evans, P Kim - Psychological science, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
… Thus, we hypothesized that the effect of childhood poverty on subsequent health is due to
elevated HPA activity plus reduced efficiency of the cardiovascular response to stress. We …

Early childhood poverty, cumulative risk exposure, and body mass index trajectories through young adulthood

NM Wells, GW Evans, A Beavis… - American journal of …, 2010 - ajph.aphapublications.org
… early childhood poverty predicts cumulative risk exposure. Third, we examined how cumulative
risk and obesity covary over time. We theorized that changes in cumulative risk predict …

Childhood poverty and psychological well-being: The mediating role of cumulative risk exposure

GW Evans, K De France - Development and Psychopathology, 2022 - cambridge.org
… ’s trajectory of cumulative risk exposure could explain some of the … from childhood poverty.
One of the key and unique signatures of childhood poverty is the confluence of risk exposures

The biological residue of childhood poverty

GE Miller, E Chen - Child development perspectives, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… We address how childhood poverty gets under the skin, at the level of tissues and … risks.
We also tackle questions about resilience; even with lengthy exposure to childhood poverty, why …

Childhood poverty, chronic stress, self‐regulation, and coping

GW Evans, P Kim - Child development perspectives, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
childhood poverty. In the first section, we show that some of the harmful effects of childhood
poverty … In the second section, we show that childhood poverty also damages self-regulatory …

Effects of childhood poverty and chronic stress on emotion regulatory brain function in adulthood

P Kim, GW Evans, M Angstadt, SS Ho… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
… a direct measure of childhood poverty exposure. To investigate the developmental timing
of poverty and neural functioning, we examined the link between childhood poverty and adult …

Childhood poverty, adverse childhood experiences, and adult health outcomes

H Lee, KS Slack, LM Berger, RS Mather… - Health & Social …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
childhood poverty and cumulative childhood ACE counts were independently associated with
adult health risk … We also assessed whether associations between childhood poverty and …