TY - JOUR
T1 - The Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Resilience Profiles on School Outcomes among Children in the Child Welfare System
AU - Yoon, Susan
AU - Pei, Fei
AU - Benavides, Juan Lorenzo
AU - Ploss, Alexa
AU - Logan, Jessica
AU - Hamby, Sherry
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health, Grant # R03HD100603. S.Y. was supported by the National Institute of Drug Abuse through K01DA050778 (Yoon, PI). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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PY - 2022/5/1
Y1 - 2022/5/1
N2 - This study aimed to examine the association between early childhood resilience profiles and later school outcomes (academic achievement and school involvement) among children in the U.S. child welfare system. This study compared 827 children aged 3–5 years in three latent profile groups (poor emotional and behavioral resilience, low cognitive resilience, and multi-domain resilience) to their baseline profiles using data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW-II). At the three-year follow-up, children with low emotional and behavioral resilience profiles and children with the multi-domain resilience profile had significantly higher basic reading skills, reading comprehension, and math reasoning compared to children with low scores on the cognitive resilience profile. Furthermore, children with the multi-domain resilience profile had significantly higher levels of emotional school engagement than did those with the low emotional and behavioral resilience profile and considerably higher levels of behavioral school engagement compared to those with the low cognitive resilience profile. The findings highlight the persistent effects of early resilience into the later childhood years. Moreover, our results suggest the need for early identification of and intervention for children with low cognitive or emotional/behavioral resilience during the preschool years to promote academic success and school engagement during the school-age years.
AB - This study aimed to examine the association between early childhood resilience profiles and later school outcomes (academic achievement and school involvement) among children in the U.S. child welfare system. This study compared 827 children aged 3–5 years in three latent profile groups (poor emotional and behavioral resilience, low cognitive resilience, and multi-domain resilience) to their baseline profiles using data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW-II). At the three-year follow-up, children with low emotional and behavioral resilience profiles and children with the multi-domain resilience profile had significantly higher basic reading skills, reading comprehension, and math reasoning compared to children with low scores on the cognitive resilience profile. Furthermore, children with the multi-domain resilience profile had significantly higher levels of emotional school engagement than did those with the low emotional and behavioral resilience profile and considerably higher levels of behavioral school engagement compared to those with the low cognitive resilience profile. The findings highlight the persistent effects of early resilience into the later childhood years. Moreover, our results suggest the need for early identification of and intervention for children with low cognitive or emotional/behavioral resilience during the preschool years to promote academic success and school engagement during the school-age years.
KW - academic achievement
KW - adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
KW - children
KW - latent profile analysis
KW - resilience
KW - school involvement
KW - school outcomes
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph19105987
DO - 10.3390/ijerph19105987
M3 - Article
C2 - 35627523
AN - SCOPUS:85129850409
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 19
JO - International journal of environmental research and public health
JF - International journal of environmental research and public health
IS - 10
M1 - 5987
ER -