Parents' Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Children's Cognitive Performance: Complexities by Race, Ethnicity, and Cognitive Domain.

ABSTRACT:

Background aim

To examine racial/ethnic variations in the effect of parents' subjective neighborhood safety on children's cognitive performance.

Methods

This cross-sectional study included 10,027 children from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. The exposure variable was parents' subjective neighborhood safety. The outcomes were three domains of children's cognitive performance: general cognitive performance, executive functioning, and learning/memory. We used mixed-effects regression models for data analysis.

Results

Overall, parents' subjective neighborhood safety was positively associated with children's executive functioning, but not general cognitive performance or learning/memory. Higher parents' subjective neighborhood safety had a more pos

SUBMITTER: Assari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8297581 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature