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标题：Environmental conditions of children in poverty from two cultural niches: Mexico City and rural New York, USA
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作者：María Montero y López-Lena y Gary W.,Evans
期刊名称：Medio Ambiente y Comportamiento Humano
印刷版ISSN：1576-6462
出版年度：2008
卷号：9
期号：1-2
出版社：Editorial Resma
摘要：This work documents the impact of poverty on families from two different cultural niches, suburban areas around Mexico City and rural New York, USA. From a social ecological perspective, poverty is understood as the condition of being exposed to multiple stressors. The results confirmed the negative impact that physical conditions (density and noise), characteristics of poverty, have on child development. In contrast, the socioemotional stressors showed a differential impact in the rural New York sample but not in the Mexico City sample. Mexican mothers seem to have coping strategies for socioemotional stress, and these may also enable them to buffer its negative effects on their offspring!ˉs!ˉ wellbeing These findings supported both the heuristic richness of the social ecological perspective and the pertinence afforded by conceptualizing poverty as the condition of being exposed to multiple stressors.
关键词：Poverty, multiple stressors, social ecological perspective