Variable Details

Available Studies

MAP, MARS, LATC

Scaled? 

Not Scaled

Variable Type 

Cross-Sectional

Variable Name 

financial_need

Categories

Affect and Personality

Financial need
Childhood adversity subscale: Financial need - Sum of 2 items

This variable is only available in MAP, MARS, and LATC.

Financial need during childhood is a subscale of total adverse experience during childhood. The variable is assessed using 2 questions about financial need covering the period of time from birth to 18 years of age. Participants are asked to respond to each question using a 5-point rating scale. Values are adjusted so that each response ranges from 0 to 4 (see table below). The subscale score ranges from 0 to 8 and is the sum of the individual items, with higher scores indicating greater financial need.

Participants are asked the following questions:

When you were growing up, how often...

  1. was there not enough to eat?
  2. did you have to wear dirty clothes?

Response choices for each question:

ResponseValueAdjusted value (-1)
Never10
Rarely21
Sometimes32
Often43
Always54

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