Capturing Environmental Dimensions of Adversity and Resources in the Context of Poverty Across Infancy Through Early Adolescence: A Moderated Nonlinear Factor Model.

摘要: Income, education, and cumulative-risk indices likely obscure meaningful heterogeneity in the mechanisms through which poverty impacts child outcomes. This study draws from contemporary theory to specify multiple dimensions of poverty-related adversity resources, with aim better capturing these nuances. Using data Family Life Project (N = 1,292), we leveraged moderated nonlinear factor analysis (Bauer, 2017) establish group- longitudinally invariant environmental measures infancy early adolescence. Results indicated three latent factors-material deprivation, psychosocial threat, sociocognitive resources-were distinct each other family income. Each was largely across site, racial group, development showed convergent discriminant relations age-twelve criterion measures. Implications for ensuring socioculturally valid measurements are discussed.