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Association Between Parental Educational Attainment and Children's Negative Urgency: Sex Differences
1Department of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
International Journal of Epidemiologic Research
|October 4, 2021
Summary
Parental education protects girls from negative urgency, a risk behavior. Boys show high negative urgency regardless of parental education, increasing drug use risk.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Public Health
Background:
- Negative urgency, a facet of impulsivity, links to health risks like substance use.
- Family socioeconomic position, specifically parental educational attainment (PEA), influences negative urgency.
- Existing research indicates a need to explore sex differences in these relationships.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate sex differences in the protective effects of PEA on children's negative urgency.
- To analyze how parental education impacts impulsivity traits in male and female children.
Main Methods:
- Utilized baseline data from 10,535 US children (9-10 years old) from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.
- Employed mixed-effects regression models to analyze the relationship between PEA (5-level categorical variable) and negative urgency (measured by UPPS-SS).
Main Results:
- Higher PEA predicted lower negative urgency in female children, but not in male children.
- A significant interaction between sex and PEA indicated a stronger protective effect of high PEA for girls compared to boys.
Conclusions:
- Parental educational attainment is a more significant factor in reducing negative urgency for girls than for boys.
- American boys exhibit high levels of negative urgency across all parental education levels, posing a risk for drug use.
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