Skin-deep Resilience and Early Adolescence: Neighborhood Disadvantage, Executive Functioning, and Pubertal Development in Minority Youth

Allen W. Barton; Tianyi Yu; Qiujie Gong; Edith Chen; Gregory Evan Miller; Gene H. Brody

doi:10.1007/s10964-023-01911-6

Skin-deep Resilience and Early Adolescence: Neighborhood Disadvantage, Executive Functioning, and Pubertal Development in Minority Youth

Allen W. Barton^*, Tianyi Yu, Qiujie Gong, Edith Chen, Gregory Evan Miller, Gene H. Brody

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Abstract

Skin-deep resilience, in which youth overcome adversity and achieve success in psychological and academic domains but at a cost to their physiological well-being, has been documented in late adolescence and adulthood. However, its potential to emerge at earlier developmental stages is unknown. To address this gap, secondary data analyses were executed using waves 1 and 2 of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study (n = 7712; ages 9–10 years at baseline [mean: 9.92; SD = 0.63]; 47.1% female; 66.1% White, 13.4% Black, and 20.6% Hispanic). The results indicated high levels of executive functioning were associated with improved psychological and behavioral outcomes at one-year follow-up. However, for racial and ethnic minority (i.e., Black or Hispanic) youth from disadvantaged neighborhoods, high levels of executive functioning were also associated with accelerated pubertal development. No significant interaction was observed among White youth. The findings suggest the skin-deep resilience pattern may be evident in early adolescence.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	284-293
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Volume	53
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01911-6
State	Published - Feb 2024

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This research was supported by National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH/NIDA) P50DA051361. Data used in the preparation of this article were obtained from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (https:// abcdstudy.org), held in the NIMH Data Archive (NDA). This is a multisite, longitudinal study designed to recruit more than 10,000 children age 9–10 and follow them over 10 years into early adulthood. The ABCD Study is supported by the National Institutes of Health and additional federal partners under award numbers U01DA041048, U01DA050989, U01DA051016, U01DA041022, U01DA051018, U01DA051037, U01DA050987, U01DA041174, U01DA041106, U01DA041117, U01DA041028, U01DA041134, U01DA050988, U01DA051039, U01DA041156, U01DA041025, U01DA041120, U01DA051038, U01DA041148, U01DA041093, U01DA041089, U24DA041123, U24DA041147. A full list of supporters is available at https://abcdstudy.org/federal-partners.html . A listing of participating sites and a complete listing of the study investigators can be found at https://abcdstudy.org/consortium_members/ .

Keywords

Adolescence
Disadvantage
Puberty
Race
Resilience

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Social Psychology
Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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