Table 1.
Prevalence of exposure to socioeconomic adversity by developmental period in the ARIES analytic sample
| Job loss (N = 667) | Income reduction (N = 711) | Low family income (N = 619) | Financial hardship (N = 697) | Major financial problem (N = 710) | Neighborhood disadvantage (N = 687) | |
| Very early childhood (0–2 years) | 42 (6.3%) | 458 (64.4%) | 95 (15.4%) | 127 (18.2%) | 138 (19.4%) | 83 (12.1%) |
| Early childhood (3–5 years) | 32 (4.8%) | 220 (30.9%) | 79 (12.8%) | 46 (6.6%) | 69 (9.7%) | 36 (5.2%) |
| Middle childhood (6–7 years) | 18 (2.7%) | 134 (18.9%) | 55 (8.9%) | 29 (4.2%) | 60 (8.5%) | 29 (4.2%) |
| Ever-exposeda | 77 (11.5%) | 525 (73.8%) | 130 (21.0%) | 147 (21.1%) | 184 (25.9%) | 98 (14.3%) |
| Average correlation over timeb | 0.49 | 0.34 | 0.87 | 0.70 | 0.50 | 0.80 |
The first four rows present the number (%) of children who were exposed to the specific type of socioeconomic adversity at each developmental period or ever exposed throughout the three periods.
aChildren who were exposed during at least one period were defined as ever-exposed for the specific type of socioeconomic adversity.
bPolychoric correlations are presented, characterizing the average correlation over time within the given type of exposure. The average within-SEP correlations were moderate to high, suggesting these measures were variable across time, which allowed for detecting differences across periods. Exposures with correlations in excess of 0.90 typically cannot be used in the SLCMA.