Poverty and Preschoolers’ Attentional and Behavioral Regulation: Differential Pathways through Material Hardship and Family Chaos

Path analyses were examined longitudinal patterns from age 1 to 5 within the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 1,965). Bootstrapping results suggested that material hardship fully mediated the association between poverty ratio and behavioral self-regulation. Household chaos partially mediated the association between poverty ratio and attention self-regulation.