Adolescent neighborhood disadvantage and memory performance in young adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we estimated the average causal effect of neighborhood disadvantage in adolescence on memory performance in young adulthood. We contrasted several different ways of operationalizing a continuous measure of neighborhood disadvantage including a continuous neighborhood disadvantage score and ordinal measures.

Results

Neighborhood disadvantage was measured in Wave I when participants were a mean age of 15.41 years (SE: 0.12) and memory performance was measured in Wave IV when participants were a mean age of 28.24 years (SE: 0.12). We found that adolescent neighborhood disadvantage was associated with decreased memory performance in young adulthood. Notably, we observed a linear decline in w

SUBMITTER: Noppert GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9721118 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature