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      Relations between housing characteristics and the well-being of low-income children and adolescents.

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          Extant research has highlighted the importance of multiple characteristics of housing but has not comprehensively assessed a broad range of housing characteristics and their relative contributions to children's well-being. Using a representative, longitudinal sample of low-income children and adolescents from low-income urban neighborhoods (N = 2,437, ages 2-21 years) from the Three-City Study, this study assessed housing quality, stability, type (i.e., ownership status and subsidy status), and cost simultaneously to delineate their unique associations with children's development. Hierarchical linear models found that poor housing quality was most consistently associated with children's and adolescents' development, including worse emotional and behavioral functioning and lower cognitive skills. These associations operated in part through mothers' psychological functioning. Residential instability showed mixed links with functioning, whereas housing cost and type were not consistently predictive. Results suggest that housing contexts are associated with functioning across the developmental span from early childhood through late adolescence, with some differences in patterns by child age.

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          Journal
          Dev Psychol
          Developmental psychology
          1939-0599
          0012-1649
          Sep 2013
          : 49
          : 9
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA. coleyre@bc.edu
          Article
          2012-33467-001 NIHMS464239
          10.1037/a0031033
          3766502
          23244408
          7757b9bc-0407-43de-adeb-3aba47950dc6
          PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved.
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