Sociodemographic risk, parenting, and executive functions in early childhood: The role of ethnicity

Holochwost, Steven J.; Gariépy, Jean-Louis; Propper, Cathi B.; Gardner-Neblett, Nicole; Volpe, Vanessa V.; Neblett, Enrique W.; Mills‐Koonce, W. Roger

doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2016.02.001

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“…Previous research also has consistently shown associations between risk and a lack of inhibitory control (Holochwost et al., ; Hughes & Ensor, ; Rhoades et al., ) and between a lack of inhibitory control and physical aggression (Spann & Gagne, ; Utendale & Hastings, ). As expected, in this study it was found that inhibitory control mediated the relation between prenatal risk and physical aggression: a higher number of prenatal risk factors were related to lower inhibitory control, which was related to higher levels of physical aggression.…”

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“…Cumulative risk, that is, the sum of different socioeconomic and socio‐demographic disadvantages, has been related to inhibitory control at different ages as well. For example, negative associations were observed between the number of risk factors and executive functioning (including inhibitory control) in 2‐ (Hughes & Ensor, ) and 6‐year‐old children (Holochwost et al., ). Another study showed that children with a low‐risk profile assessed during infancy scored higher on an executive functioning task requiring inhibitory control at 36 months compared to children with a high‐risk profile (Rhoades, Greenberg, Lanza, & Blair, ).…”

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Prenatal risk and physical aggression during the first years of life: The gender‐specific role of inhibitory control

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Huijbregts

Heijden

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Prenatal risk and a lack of inhibitory control have consistently been related to the development of physical aggression in older children. This study examined whether inhibitory control mediated the relation between prenatal risk and aggression in infants and toddlers. The role of gender in this mediation model was also examined. The sample consisted of 161 mother–child dyads (83 boys). A prenatal cumulative risk score was created from a number of well‐established risk factors including maternal psychopathology, substance use, and social and socioeconomic disadvantages. At 12 months, children performed an inhibitory control task. Physical aggression was assessed through maternal reports at 12 and 20 months of age. Results showed that higher prenatal risk was associated with more physical aggression. Inhibitory control mediated this association at both 12 and 20 months: higher prenatal risk was related to lower inhibitory control, which in turn led to higher aggression. At 20 months, gender moderated the mediation effect: the mediating role of inhibitory control was only found for girls. These results suggest that even before 2 years of age, inhibitory control is an important construct involved in the relation between prenatal risk and physical aggression.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Prenatal risk and physical aggression during the first years of life: The gender‐specific role of inhibitory control

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Huijbregts

Heijden

et al. 2019

Infancy

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“…Cumulative risk scores were highly correlated ( r (176) = .84, p < .001) at 30 ( M = 0.23, SD = 0.26) and 36 months ( M = 0.24, SD = 0.26). Therefore, a composite risk score was calculated as the mean of these proportion scores for cases where scores were available for at least one age (α = .91; see Holochwost et al., ).…”

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Sociodemographic risk, parenting, and inhibitory control in early childhood: the role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia

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Volpe

Gueron‐Sela

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Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…Interestingly, findings suggest that the effects of parenting on children's EF may differ as a function of developmental period (Camerota et al., ; Holochwost et al, ; Landry, Miller‐Loncar, Smith, & Swank, ). A recent study with the current sample found that for European American families, sensitive parenting during toddlerhood was positively related to EF at the age of 5 years, while parenting during infancy was not (Holochwost et al, ). Furthermore, Landry et al.…”

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“…Interestingly, findings suggest that the effects of parenting on children's EF may differ as a function of developmental period (Camerota et al, 2015;Holochwost et al, 2016;Landry, Miller-Loncar, Smith, & Swank, 2002). A recent study with the current sample found that for European American families, sensitive parenting during toddlerhood was positively related to EF at the age of 5 years, while parenting during infancy was not (Holochwost et al, 2016). Furthermore, Landry et al (2002) found that mothers' verbal scaffolding at the age of 3 years influenced children's executive processing abilities at the age of 6 years, while four-year maternal scaffolding behaviors did not (Landry et al, 2002).…”

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The Interaction Between Child Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Early Sensitive Parenting in the Prediction of Children's Executive Functions

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Wagner

Propper

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This study investigated the interaction between children's parasympathetic functioning and maternal sensitive parenting behaviors during infancy and toddlerhood in the prediction of children's executive functions (EF) at the age of 5 years. Participants included 137 children and their mothers who were followed from the age of 3 months to 5 years. Children's cardiac activity was recorded at rest at multiple times from ages 3 to 36 months, and estimates of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA; a measure of parasympathetic functioning) were calculated. Sensitive parenting was assessed during a mother–child play task at ages 6, 12, 24, and 36 months, and 5 years. Children completed age appropriate EF tasks at the age of 5 years. The link between sensitive parenting during toddlerhood (ages 24 and 36 months) and children's later EF was moderated by children's RSA such that this positive link was evident only among children who had low levels of baseline RSA, and not among those who had high levels of baseline RSA. These findings were obtained while controlling for concurrent sensitive parenting and maternal and child verbal abilities. Results from this study provide evidence for the significant role of biopsychosocial processes in early childhood in the development of EF.

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Sociodemographic risk, parenting, and executive functions in early childhood: The role of ethnicity

Cited by 44 publications

References 82 publications

Prenatal risk and physical aggression during the first years of life: The gender‐specific role of inhibitory control

Prenatal risk and physical aggression during the first years of life: The gender‐specific role of inhibitory control

Sociodemographic risk, parenting, and inhibitory control in early childhood: the role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia

The Interaction Between Child Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Early Sensitive Parenting in the Prediction of Children's Executive Functions

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