Growing up in poverty exposes children to greater levels of stress, which can lead to psychological problems later in life, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Cornell University reported that kids who grow up poor are more likely to have reduced short-term spatial memory. The study also reported that such kids seem to be more prone to antisocial and aggressive behavior, such as bullying.
Poor children are also more likely than kids from middle-income homes to feel powerless, the study authors suggested.
Of course, the findings don't mean that all children growing up in poverty will have these problems, only that the risk is higher, the researchers said.
"What this means is, if you're born poor, you're on a trajectory to have more of these kinds of psychological problems," study author Gary Evans, a professor of environmental and developmental psychology, said in a university news release.
[For more of this story, written by Roman Bodnarchuk, go to http://bismarcktribune.com/lif...a7-a5799426144e.html]
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