Teenagers Can Often Spot Financial Struggles
Teenagers often know when their parents are having money problems − and that knowledge is linked to mental health challenges, new research finds.
When parents try to shield their kids from financial hardship, they may be doing them a favor: Teens’ views about their families’ economic challenges are connected to their mental health and behavior.
That’s the main finding of a study into household income and child development that I recently conducted with my colleagues.
As a professor of psychology, I know there’s a good deal of research showing that young people who experience more household economic hardship tend to have more behavioral problems.
But most studies on this issue rely heavily on caregiver reports – that is, what adults say about their kids. Fewer researchers have asked you...