Daniel B Lee1, Shervin Assari2, Alison L Miller3, Hsing-Fang Hsieh3, Justin E Heinze3, Marc A Zimmerman3. 1. Children's Minnesota Research Institute, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 3. Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: While low parental socioeconomic status (SES) has been associated with lower levels of child executive functioning (EF), few have examined the intergenerational effect of SES on child EF across three generations. We adopt a resilience framework to investigate positive parenting as a protective factor in the intergenerational effect of low SES on child EF. METHODS: In a sample of 50 parents (70% female) and their oldest child (56% female, M age = 12.38) from the Flint Adolescent Study, we estimated the effect of grandparent SES on child EF (i.e., Animal Sorting, Inhibition, Inhibition Switching) and examined the protective role of positive parenting using a multivariate regression model. RESULTS: Lower levels of grandparent SES was associated with lower levels of cognitive flexibility (i.e., Animal Sorting), but not inhibition (i.e., Inhibition, Inhibition Switching), at low levels of positive parenting. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate the varied ways by which intergenerational SES may shape child EF. Further, positive parenting may offset the intergenerational influence of SES on child EF outcomes.
OBJECTIVE: While low parental socioeconomic status (SES) has been associated with lower levels of child executive functioning (EF), few have examined the intergenerational effect of SES on child EF across three generations. We adopt a resilience framework to investigate positive parenting as a protective factor in the intergenerational effect of low SES on child EF. METHODS: In a sample of 50 parents (70% female) and their oldest child (56% female, M age = 12.38) from the Flint Adolescent Study, we estimated the effect of grandparent SES on child EF (i.e., Animal Sorting, Inhibition, Inhibition Switching) and examined the protective role of positive parenting using a multivariate regression model. RESULTS: Lower levels of grandparent SES was associated with lower levels of cognitive flexibility (i.e., Animal Sorting), but not inhibition (i.e., Inhibition, Inhibition Switching), at low levels of positive parenting. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate the varied ways by which intergenerational SES may shape child EF. Further, positive parenting may offset the intergenerational influence of SES on child EF outcomes.
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Keywords:
executive functioning; intergenerational; parenting; socioeconomic status
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