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Article: Family Financial Pressure in Childhood and Telomere Length in Early Adolescence: A Prospective Study
Title | Family Financial Pressure in Childhood and Telomere Length in Early Adolescence: A Prospective Study |
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Keywords | early childhood exposure family financial pressure telomere |
Issue Date | 2022 |
Citation | Genes, 2022, v. 13, n. 5, article no. 721 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Much research on children in high-risk environments has focused on the biological consequences of maltreatment, adversity, and trauma. Whether other early-life stress sources such as family financial hardship are implicated in the cellular mechanism of disease development remains unclear. This study investigated the long-term effect of childhood exposure to family financial pressure on telomere length. It involved two waves of data collection occurring when participants reached Grade 3 (W1) and 7 (W2), respectively. In W1, parents reported family demographics and perceived financial stressors and pressure. In W2, participants provided buccal swab samples for measurement of their telomere length. Data from 92 participants (Mage in W2 = 13.2 years; 56.5% male) were analyzed. The main type of stressors reported by parents who perceived high family financial pressure in W1 were child-level stressors including affordability of their medical and educational expenses. Participants exposed to high parent-perceived family financial pressure in W1 had shorter telomeres in W2 when compared to those exposed to low parent-perceived family financial pressure (β = −0.61, p = 0.042). Subgroup analyses revealed stronger associations in girls than boys. These findings reveal an important spillover effect between parental financial perceptions and stress and children’s health at the cellular level. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/336025 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Tung, Keith T.S. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wong, Rosa S. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tsang, Hing Wai | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wong, Wilfred H.S. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tso, Winnie W.Y. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yam, Jason C. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lum, Terry Y.S. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, Godfrey C.F. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wong, Ian C.K. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ip, Patrick | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-15T08:22:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-01-15T08:22:07Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Genes, 2022, v. 13, n. 5, article no. 721 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/336025 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Much research on children in high-risk environments has focused on the biological consequences of maltreatment, adversity, and trauma. Whether other early-life stress sources such as family financial hardship are implicated in the cellular mechanism of disease development remains unclear. This study investigated the long-term effect of childhood exposure to family financial pressure on telomere length. It involved two waves of data collection occurring when participants reached Grade 3 (W1) and 7 (W2), respectively. In W1, parents reported family demographics and perceived financial stressors and pressure. In W2, participants provided buccal swab samples for measurement of their telomere length. Data from 92 participants (Mage in W2 = 13.2 years; 56.5% male) were analyzed. The main type of stressors reported by parents who perceived high family financial pressure in W1 were child-level stressors including affordability of their medical and educational expenses. Participants exposed to high parent-perceived family financial pressure in W1 had shorter telomeres in W2 when compared to those exposed to low parent-perceived family financial pressure (β = −0.61, p = 0.042). Subgroup analyses revealed stronger associations in girls than boys. These findings reveal an important spillover effect between parental financial perceptions and stress and children’s health at the cellular level. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Genes | - |
dc.subject | early childhood exposure | - |
dc.subject | family financial pressure | - |
dc.subject | telomere | - |
dc.title | Family Financial Pressure in Childhood and Telomere Length in Early Adolescence: A Prospective Study | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/genes13050721 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 35627106 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85129139482 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 13 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 5 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 721 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 721 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2073-4425 | - |