Poverty

Question 1

Who studied poverty

Answer 1

Yoshikawa

Question 2

What were the selection factors in Yoshikawa’s model of poverty

Answer 2

-Parent education
-Parent Marital Status
-Parent Work Status
-Job Prestige
-Race-ethnicity
-Documentation Status

Question 3

What are the dimensions of poverty

Answer 3

-Absolute Poverty
-Material hardship
-Relative poverty
-Asset poverty
-Social exclusion

Question 4

Absolute Poverty

Answer 4

Falling below objective standard for meeting basic needs: food, shelter

Question 5

Relative Poverty

Answer 5

Falling below 50 or 60% of the national median household income, income inequality.

Question 6

Subjective Poverty

Answer 6

Falling below a subjective perception of “the amount of income it takes to get by”. Most psychological measure.

Question 7

Asset Poverty

Answer 7

Wealth minus debt

Question 8

What are the institutional mediating mechanisms in Yoshikawa’s model?

Answer 8

-Low quality classrooms/schools
-Low job quality; high job instability
-Neighbourhood danger; lack of resources, collective efficacy and health care access.

Question 9

What are the relational mediating mechanisms in Yoshikawa’s model?

Answer 9

-Parent/child security
-Adult and parent/child relational conflict
-Parenting behaviour

Question 10

What are the individual meditating

Answer 10

-Parenting Stress
-Parental M-E-B Health
-Parent Neurophysiology
-Child Stress
-Child behaviour
-Child Neurophysiology

Question 11

What are the child outcomes

Answer 11

-Physical health and development
-Mental, emotional & behaviour health
-Cognitive & language development / Learning and achievement

Question 12

Overall what does family poverty, and to a lesser extent, neighbourhood poverty have

Answer 12

Worsens Child M-E-B health