Parental Arrest and Child Behavior: Differential Role of Executive Functioning among Racial Subgroups.

ABSTRACT: This study examines relations among parental arrest, child executive functioning (EF), and problem behaviors among youth who participated in the baseline assessment of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study (N = 11,875). Participants ranged in age from 9 to 10 (M = 9.91) years, and approximately half were girls (47.9%). Results of regression analyses that controlled for sociodemographic risk factors indicated that children who experienced parental arrest exhibited more internalizing and externalizing behaviors than comparison youth, particularly when their mother vs. father had been arrested. Results of analyses that were disaggregated by child race further revealed that EF appeared to play a differential role among White (n = 5851) and Black (n

SUBMITTER: Johnson EI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9518726 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature