Pace of aging, family environment and cognitive skills in children and adolescents

[en] Pace of aging is an epigenetic clock which captures the speed at which someone is biologically aging compared to the chronological-age peers. We here use data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to investigate the interrelation between the study children’s parental social class at birth, and their pace of aging and cognitive skills measures in childhood and adolescence. We show that children from lower parental social classes display faster pace of aging and that the social class gradient in pace of aging is strongest in adolescence. About one third of this association can be explained by other socio-economic and demographic covariates, as well as life events. Similarly, study children’s pace of aging manifests a negative association with their measures of cognitive skills in late adolescence only. This association becomes stronger as the contemporary pace of aging of the mother becomes faster. Our results seem to identify adolescence as the period of life when pace of aging, family environment and cognitive skills measures begin to interact.

Disciplines :

Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)

Author, co-author :

Niccodemi, Gianmaria

Menta, Giorgia; Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research - LISER

Turner, Jonathan; Luxembourg Institute of Health - LIH

d'Ambrosio, Conchita ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS)

External co-authors :

Language :

English

Title :

Pace of aging, family environment and cognitive skills in children and adolescents

Publication date :

2022

Journal title :

SSM - Population Health

ISSN :

2352-8273

Publisher :

Elsevier, United Kingdom

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

FnR Project :

FNR13650569 - Age Acceleration And The Life Course, 2019 (01/09/2020-31/08/2023) - Conchita D'ambrosio

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