PSYC 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Conduct Disorder, Psychopathology, Shoplifting
23 Dec 2015
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Cultural and contextual differences strongly associated with poverty strongly associated with exposure to violence. It could be social causation: stress of poverty leads to an increase in childhood psychopathology. It could be social selection: families with genetic predisposition drift down towards poverty. Aboriginal people a lot more: partway through the study, a casino opened on the reservation. Everyone in the community got a stipend (6k a year) This let us see the effect of just plain income. Money just appeared: this led to them having three groups of interest. Persistently poor (below poverty line before, still below poverty line) Mediators: a variable that explains the relationship between two other variables, eg. Child abuse may mediate the relationship between ses and cd (because of low ses, there may be child abuse, and this child abuse may lead to cd. So the low ses explains the link between the two)
