Assari Shervin, Boyce Shanika, Caldwell Cleopatra H, Bazargan Mohsen
Department of Family Medicine, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA.
Children (Basel). 2020 May 18;7(5):49. doi: 10.3390/children7050049.
To compare racial groups for the effect of parental educational attainment on adolescents' social, emotional, and behavioral problems. In this cross-sectional study, 10,762 youth from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study were included. The independent variable was parental educational attainment. The main outcomes were 1) anxious and depressed mood, 2) withdrawn and depressed affect, 3) somatic complaints, 4) social and interpersonal problems, 5) thought problems, 6) rule-breaking behaviors, 7) attention problems, and 8) violent and aggressive behaviors. These scores were generated based on parent-reported behavioral problems measured using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Race and ethnicity were the moderators. Linear regression was used to analyze the ABCD data. Overall, high parental educational attainment was associated with lower scores across all domains. Race and ethnicity showed statistically significant interactions with parental educational attainment on adolescents' fewer social, emotional, and behavioral problems (all domains), net of all confounders, indicating smaller tangible gains from their parental educational attainment for Black and Hispanic compared to non-Hispanic White adolescents. The protective effects of parental education against social, emotional, and behavioral problems are systematically diminished for Hispanic and Black than non-Hispanic White adolescents.
比较不同种族群体中父母教育程度对青少年社会、情感和行为问题的影响。在这项横断面研究中，纳入了来自青少年大脑认知发展（ABCD）研究的10762名青少年。自变量是父母的教育程度。主要结果包括：1）焦虑和抑郁情绪；2）孤僻和抑郁情绪；3）躯体不适；4）社交和人际关系问题；5）思维问题；6）违规行为；7）注意力问题；8）暴力和攻击行为。这些分数是根据父母报告的使用儿童行为检查表（CBCL）测量的行为问题生成的。种族和族裔是调节变量。使用线性回归分析ABCD数据。总体而言，父母教育程度高与所有领域的较低分数相关。种族和族裔在所有混杂因素的影响下，在青少年较少的社会、情感和行为问题（所有领域）方面与父母教育程度存在统计学上的显著交互作用，这表明与非西班牙裔白人青少年相比，黑人和西班牙裔青少年从父母教育程度中获得的实际收益较小。与非西班牙裔白人青少年相比，西班牙裔和黑人青少年中，父母教育对社会、情感和行为问题的保护作用系统性地减弱。
