Low Socioeconomic Status and Child Development

Socioeconomic status(SES) refers to a hierarchy ranking based on the amount of valuable resources that an individual or a family has access to or controls.Low SES has negative effects on children's physical health,cognitive development,emotional adaptation and behavior problems,etc.The mechanisms of these effects have been explained by two theories:the mediating model and the moderating model.Therefore,it is important that the government and the whole society should actively join hands to promote the positive growth and development of low SES children.