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Processes Linking Socioeconomic Disadvantage And Neural Correlates Of Cognitive Control In Adolescence, Alexis Brieant, Toria Herd, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Jacob Lee, Brooks King-Casas

Psychological and Brain Sciences Faculty Publication Series

Socioeconomic status (SES) is broadly associated with self-regulatory abilities across childhood and adolescence. However, there is limited understanding of the mechanisms underlying this association, especially during adolescence when individuals are particularly sensitive to environmental influences. The current study tested perceived stress, household chaos, parent cognitive control, and parent-adolescent relationship quality as potential proximal mediators of the association between family SES and neural correlates of cognitive control. A sample of 167 adolescents and their primary caregivers participated in a longitudinal study across four years. SES was indexed by caregivers? education and income-to-needs ratio at Time 1. At Time 2, adolescents reported …