Psychosocial Exposure

Psychosocial exposure looks more deeply into what affect a person experiences than the simply physical aspect approach. Psychosocial exposure looks more into the family functions, the levels of conflict, and the relationship and parenting practices. Cohen et al. (2010) provided the example that if parental conflict escalates into marital dissolution, the custodial parent will likely experience a drop in SES. Additionally, if a conflict arises in a low SES home, the child may have greater difficulties with regulating their emotion that can lead to depression, anxiety, and even hostility. In a high SES home, the parents may have the child attend sessions with a psychiatrist to resolve any of their issues (Cohen et al., 2010). In any sense, children …show more content…
Whereas these students might benefit from targeted and effective vocabulary instruction, ample early experience with expository texts seems particularly helpful for preparing children for the language demands of school. Therefore, ensuring a solid mastery of those linguistic features that cause comprehension difficulties as early as the elementary school age is particularly important for educational success …show more content…
Through these developments, however, one thing has remained stable: the relationship that SES has on childhood development. As Hackman, Farah, and Meaney (2010) discussed, there are three main stages in which SES is crucial to the development of a child. The first stage, the prenatal stage, is influenced by the overall health of the mother and the stress levels that are experienced. These stress levels propel into the second stage, parental care. Along with stress levels in this stage, the overall parenting styles exhibited play a major role in development, especially language development. The parental care stage also includes where a child is raised and the environment that they are raised in. This same environment that parents put their children into has an effect of its own on development when looking at the last stage proposed by Hackman, Farah, and Meaney (2010), cognitive stimulation. Through these stages and the many studies conducted, it is clear that socioeconomic status and development is shown in children through many different factors. It is shown through the child’s overall growth, their cognitive development, as well as their stress management and the parenting style that they are exposed to that affects the child’s language development as a