Parenting quality and life stress fully mediate the relationship between SES and children's hippocampal volume¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Mother-reported life stress and quality of parenting behavior together fully mediated the relationship between SES and hippocampal volume in children. → Martha J. Farah 2017

Evidence¶

Martha J. Farah 2017¶

Martha J. Farah. (2017). Socioeconomic status and the brain: prospects for neuroscience-informed policy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-018-0023-2

q2 · i? · theoretical · r3

The Perspective reports, citing a study of children that measured stress and videotaped parent-child interactions, that these proximal factors "fully mediated the relationship between SES and hippocampal volume in children", consistent with stress and parenting as proximal causes. No effect size is printed.

"mother-reported life stress and quality of parenting behavior (based on videotaped interactions between parent and child) together fully mediated the relationship between SES and hippocampal volume in children"

Discussion¶

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