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

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• Alternative Title:
  Urban Sci
• Personal Author:
  Assari, Shervin ; Boyce, Shanika ; Mistry, Ritesh ; Thomas, Alvin ; Nicholson, Harvey L. ; Cobb, Ryon J. ; Cuevas, Adolfo G. ; Lee, Daniel B. ; Bazargan, Mohsen ; Caldwell, Cleopatra H. ; Curry, Tommy J. ; Zimmerman, Marc A.
• Description:
  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 positive influence on the executive functioning of non-Hispanic White than Asian American children. Higher parents’ subjective neighborhood safety was associated with higher general cognitive performance and learning/memory for non-White children relative to non-Hispanic White children.
  
  Conclusion:
  
  The race/ethnicity of children moderates the association between neighborhood safety and cognitive performance. This becomes more complicated, as the patterns seem to differ across race/ethnicity and cognitive domains. It is unknown whether the observed racial/ethnic variations in the effect of neighborhood safety on cognitive performance are due to neighborhood characteristics such as residential segregation. Addressing neighborhood inequalities is needed if we wish to reduce racial/ethnic inequities in the cognitive development of children.
  
  
• Keywords:
  Children Cognition Cognitive Performance Ethnicity Population Groups Race
• Source:
  Urban Sci. 5(2)
• Pubmed ID:
  34307955
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8297581
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U24 DA041147/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041120/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 DA035811/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041025/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041089/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041106/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041117/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041148/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U54 MD008149/MD/NIMHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041174/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041093/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 CA201415/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U24 DA041123/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U54 MD007598/MD/NIMHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041134/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U54 CA229974/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041022/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 CE002698/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041156/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041028/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DA041048/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  5
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha-512:9eef0d931dbdb1f574e718ae0f7ba77a0be0ad4342dbf7c4ce3e37af4709be480c8e159cafae9b4cec5ae3acdefd257edc90de213e2e39042c9728aa45b13159
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