TY - JOUR
T1 - Childhood socioeconomic status and executive function in childhood and beyond
AU - Last, Briana S.
AU - Lawson, Gwen M.
AU - Breiner, Kaitlyn
AU - Steinberg, Laurence
AU - Farah, Martha J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Last et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - Socioeconomic status (SES) predicts health, wellbeing, and cognitive ability, including executive function (EF). A body of recent work has shown that childhood SES is positively related to EF, but it is not known whether this disparity grows, diminishes or holds steady over development, from childhood through adulthood. We examined the association between childhood SES and EF in a sample ranging from 9–25 years of age, with six canonical EF tasks. Analyzing all of the tasks together and in functionally defined groups, we found positive relations between SES and EF, and the relations did not vary by age. Analyzing the tasks separately, SES was positively associated with performance in some but not all EF measures, depending on the covariates used, again without varying by age. These results add to a growing body of evidence that childhood SES is associated with EF abilities, and contribute novel evidence concerning the persistence of this association into early adulthood.
AB - Socioeconomic status (SES) predicts health, wellbeing, and cognitive ability, including executive function (EF). A body of recent work has shown that childhood SES is positively related to EF, but it is not known whether this disparity grows, diminishes or holds steady over development, from childhood through adulthood. We examined the association between childhood SES and EF in a sample ranging from 9–25 years of age, with six canonical EF tasks. Analyzing all of the tasks together and in functionally defined groups, we found positive relations between SES and EF, and the relations did not vary by age. Analyzing the tasks separately, SES was positively associated with performance in some but not all EF measures, depending on the covariates used, again without varying by age. These results add to a growing body of evidence that childhood SES is associated with EF abilities, and contribute novel evidence concerning the persistence of this association into early adulthood.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85052240353
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0202964
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0202964
M3 - Article
C2 - 30142188
AN - SCOPUS:85052240353
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 13
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 8
M1 - e0202964
ER -