Relationships Between Poverty and Psychopathology
JAMAPublished 14 October 2003
E. Jane Costello, Scott N. Compton, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold
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An income intervention that moved families out of poverty for reasons that cannot be ascribed to family characteristics had a major effect on some types of children's psychiatric disorders, but not on others.
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An income intervention that moved families out of poverty for reasons that cannot be ascribed to family characteristics had a major effect on some types of children's psychiatric disorders, but not on others. Results support a social causation explanation for conduct and oppositional disorder, but not for anxiety or depression.
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