The article I found for Research Example #2 is called “Impact of moving into poverty on maternal and child mental health: longitudinal analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study” by Sophie Wickham, Ben Barr, and David Taylor-Robinson. This study was done in response to ambiguity regarding whether or not poverty is related to maternal and child mental health issues because while it is usually assumed that they are, there have not been enough studies or analyses on studies on the matter to come to a conclusion. The UK Millennium Cohort study that was analyzed consisted of 5877 individuals being occasionally tested for poverty levels, maternal psychological distress, and child socioemotional behavioral problems as they aged from 9 months to 11 years old. The study had found that maternal psychological distress from the individuals’ mothers and socioemotional behavioral problems in children were related to  household income dipping below 60% of the national average. This specific analysis of the study adjusted for confounding factors to find that the transition into what was defined as poverty was linked to direct increase in maternal psychological distress and socioemotional behavioral problems in children. Maternal psychological distress was then also controlled for and it was found that transition into poverty and socioemotional behavioral problems in children were not correlated, as the statistical findings were nonsignificant. Therefore, the maternal psychological distress that mothers were experiencing during their transition into poverty was affecting the expression of socioemotional behavior in their children. I found this article really interesting and useful to my topic because it dealt with the relationship between mother and child and poverty. Distinguishing between what is causing psychological or emotional distress within those groups is important to studying the relationship between poverty and mental health

Wickham, S., Barr, B., Taylor-Robinson, D. (2016). Impact of moving into poverty on maternal and child mental health: longitudinal analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study. The Lancet, suppl. Supplement 2. (Vol. 388, pp. s4).