Association between adolescents' socioeconomic status and working memory updating functioning: Role of parental educational involvement

Autor: Xin Zhao, Wenjing Cao, Joseph H. R. Maes
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Journal of Research on Adolescence
ISSN: 1050-8392
Popis: Contains fulltext : 291491.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Family socioeconomic status (SES) is positively associated with executive functioning. This study tested whether parental educational involvement mediates this association. Two hundred and sixty, 12-15-year-old adolescents completed working memory updating (WMU) and general intelligence tasks, and questionnaires on SES and parental educational involvement. SES and WMU ability were positively associated; there was no difference between the fathers and mothers for three types of educational involvement. The mothers' behavioural involvement positively mediated the SES-WM updating association, whereas a negative mediation was observed for the mothers' intellectual involvement. The fathers’ educational involvement did not play a significant mediating role. These results might inform interventions targeting educational involvement for enhancing the cognitive development of children from low SES families. 30 maart 2023 12 p.
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