Not built for families: Associations between neighborhood disinvestment and reduced parental cognitive stimulation.

ABSTRACT: Infants learn and develop within an ecological context that includes family, peers, and broader built and social environments. This development relies on proximal processes-reciprocal interactions between infants and the people and environments around them that help them understand their world. Most research examining predictors of proximal processes like parent-child interaction and parenting has focused on elements within the home and family. However, factors like the neighborhood built environment may also exhibit an influence, and may be particularly critical in infancy, as socioeconomic disparities in cognition and language emerge early in life. Moreover, influence from the built environment could independently exacerbate these disparities, as research indicates that neighborhood impa

SUBMITTER: Canfield CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9606826 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature