Abstract
Aim: To compare racial groups for the effect of parental educational attainment on adolescents’ social, emotional, and behavioral problems. Methods: 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 The main outcomes were (1) anxious and depressed mood, (2) withdrawn and depressed affect, (3) somatic complaints, (4) social and interpersonal problems, (5) thought problems, (6) rule-breaking behaviors, (7) attention problems,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. Results: 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. Conclusions: The protective effects of parental education against social, emotional, and behavioral problems are systematically diminished for Hispanic and Black than non-Hispanic White adolescents.
Highlights
The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), known as the Achenbach System of Empirically BasedAssessment, is one of the most widely used tools for screening social, emotional, and behavioral problems in adolescents [1]
There was a positive effect of high parental educational attainment on social, emotional, and behavioral problems in US, these protective effects all depended on race and ethnicity
This study looked at the effect of parental education level on adolescents’ behavioral problems, these patterns seem to be independent of age, socioeconomic status (SES) resource, and outcome
Summary
The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), known as the Achenbach System of Empirically BasedAssessment, is one of the most widely used tools for screening social, emotional, and behavioral problems in adolescents [1]. The CBCL instrument uses a parental report form to screen for social, behavioral, and emotional problems. The CBCL is commonly used across settings including but not limited to schools, medical settings, mental health facilities, child and family services, health management organizations, and public health agencies [2]. It has been used by thousands of published scholarly articles [2]. CBCL is shown to have high cross-cultural validity, which makes it a useful tool to compare outcomes across racial and ethnic groups [3]
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