Lost support, lost skills: Children's cognitive outcomes following grandparental death.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examines the implications of grandparental death for cognitive skills in middle childhood.

Method

This study uses data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2479) to estimate ordinary least squares regression models of the associations between grandparental death and subsequent cognitive skills among children in middle childhood.

Results

Experiencing a grandparental death between ages 5 and 9 is associated with boys' lower reading, verbal, and math scores at age 9, with associations most notable for Black and Hispanic boys; grandparental death before age 5 has minimal influence on boys' cognitive skills at age 9. There is little indication that grandparental death adversely affects girls' cognitive skills.

Conclusion

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SUBMITTER: Livings MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11867193 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature