APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Longitudinal Associations Among Early-Life Environmental Unpredictability, Environmental Harshness, and Children’s Grade 5 Behavioral Functioning
- Christina Squires
Nevada State College - James Larsen
University of Missouri - Louis Manfra
University of Missouri - Columbia - Jean Ispa
University of Missouri
Abstract
This study explored the influence of early-life (between ages 0 and 3 years) environmental unpredictability and environmental harshness on fifth-graders’ behavioral functioning directly and indirectly through children’s self-regulation in preschool. SEM revealed that early-life environmental unpredictability and environmental harshness make independent and differential contributions to Grade 5 behavioral functioning.
Environment