ArticleSocial science research2023
Lost support, lost skills: Children's cognitive outcomes following grandparental death.
Article in Social science research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Early life grandmother caregiving trajectories and child development: a longitudinal study.International journal of behavioral development · 2025Article
- The biological consequences of grandparental death for children: An analysis of telomere length.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- The new sociology of bereavement.Annual review of sociology · 2025Article
- The Grief of Peer Loss Among Adolescents: A Narrative Review.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Review
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Abstract
objectiveThis study examines the implications of grandparental death for cognitive skills in middle childhood.
methodThis study uses data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2479) to estimate ordinary least squares regression models of the associations between grandparental death and subsequent cognitive skills among children in middle childhood.
resultsExperiencing a grandparental death between ages 5 and 9 is associated with boys' lower reading, verbal, and math scores at age 9, with associations most notable for Black and Hispanic boys; grandparental death before age 5 has minimal influence on boys' cognitive skills at age 9. There is little indication that grandparental death adversely affects girls' cognitive skills.
conclusionThe numerous and persistent implications of grandparental death for boys' cognitive skills merit greater recognition of grandparental death as a source of family instability, stress, and ultimately inequality in child development.
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