Associations of Prenatal Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Working Memory: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if prenatal socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with childhood working memory (WM), we constructed a more precise, integrative measure of WM using variables from multiple tasks that may provide a more representative measure of WM.

Study design

We used data from a prospective birth cohort study in Mexico City, Mexico, with N = 515 children aged 6-9 years. Prenatal SES was measured using the Mexican Association of Marketing Research and Public Opinion Agencies (AMAI) index. We created a latent variable for nonverbal working memory using multiple tasks (Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery spatial working memory, operant chamber Delayed Match to Sample and Incremental Repeated Acquisition). Structural equation models were used to asses

SUBMITTER: Liu SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12110185 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature