How Social Environment Affects Mental Health in Children Aged 0-5

This annotated bibliography examines the influence of the social environment on the mental health of children aged five years and under. It references various studies exploring the correlation between socioeconomic factors, parental well-being, and the psychosocial development of young children. The included articles cover a range of topics such as the impact of socioeconomic status on children's quality of life, the role of parental emotional well-being and parenting practices, and the effects of social vulnerabilities on psychosocial problems. The bibliography also touches upon the relationship between socioeconomic inequalities and mental health issues like ADHD in children. This compilation of research provides a comprehensive overview of how different aspects of the social environment can affect the mental and emotional well-being of young children.

Running head: ARTICLES
How does the impact of social environment affect the mental health of children 5 years and
under?
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1ARTICLES
Berman, A.H., Liu, B., Ullman, S., Jadbäck, I. and Engström, K., 2016. Children’s quality of
life based on the KIDSCREEN-27: child self-report, parent ratings and child-parent
agreement in a Swedish random population sample. PloS one, 11(3), p.e0150545.
Bøe, T., Sivertsen, B., Heiervang, E., Goodman, R., Lundervold, A.J. and Hysing, M., 2014.
Socioeconomic status and child mental health: The role of parental emotional well-being and
parenting practices. Journal of abnormal child psychology, 42(5), pp.705-715.
Cassiano, R.G.M., Provenzi, L., Linhares, M.B.M., Gaspardo, C.M. and Montirosso, R.,
2018. Maternal sociodemographic factors differentially affect the risk of behavioral problems
in Brazilian and Italian preterm toddlers. Infant Behavior and Development, 50, pp.165-173.
de Laat, S.A., Essink-Bot, M.L., van Wassenaer-Leemhuis, A.G. and Vrijkotte, T.G., 2016.
Effect of socioeconomic status on psychosocial problems in 5-to 6-year-old preterm-and
term-born children: the ABCD study. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 25(7),
pp.757-767.
de Laat, S.A., Huizink, A.C., Hof, M.H. and Vrijkotte, T.G., 2018. Socioeconomic
inequalities in psychosocial problems of children: mediating role of maternal depressive
symptoms. European journal of public health.
Iguacel, I., Michels, N., Fernández-Alvira, J.M., Bammann, K., De Henauw, S., Felső, R.,
Gwozdz, W., Hunsberger, M., Reisch, L., Russo, P. and Tornaritis, M., 2017. Associations
between social vulnerabilities and psychosocial problems in European children. Results from
the IDEFICS study. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 26(9), pp.1105-1117.
Kim, I., 2016. Effect of socioeconomic factors on parental stress in pediatric attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder(Doctoral dissertation).

2ARTICLES
Rajmil, L., Herdman, M., Ravens-Sieberer, U., Erhart, M. and Alonso, J., 2014.
Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in
children and adolescents from 11 European countries. International journal of public
health, 59(1), pp.95-105.
Reiss, F., 2013. Socioeconomic inequalities and mental health problems in children and
adolescents: a systematic review. Social science & medicine, 90, pp.24-31.
Russell, G., Ford, T., Rosenberg, R. and Kelly, S., 2014. The association of attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder with socioeconomic disadvantage: alternative explanations and
evidence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55(5), pp.436-445.