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ERIC Number: EJ1492070
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2026-Jan
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1363-755X
EISSN: EISSN-1467-7687
Available Date: 2025-12-11
Cognitive Resilience and Vulnerability to Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Predictors across Individual, Family, School, and Neighborhood Contexts
Deena Shariq1; Rachel R. Romeo1,2; Arianna M. Gard1,3
Developmental Science, v29 n1 e70105 2026
Though much research links socioeconomic disadvantage to cognitive difficulties during adolescence, many youth demonstrate resilience. Person-centered approaches can be used to quantify this developmental heterogeneity and challenge deficit-centered frameworks. This study leverages person-centered and data-driven methods to quantify and characterize cognitive heterogeneity in a socioeconomically diverse sample of early adolescents from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (N = 9839; 47.7% female sex; M[subscript age] = 9.90 years; 46.7% White). Four profiles were identified based on their access to socioeconomic resources (SER) and multi-domain cognitive functioning, including two profiles characterized by moderate-to-high SER (74.5%) and two profiles characterized by low SER (25.5%). Among youth in low-SER environments, 88.6% demonstrated cognitive performance scores similar to youth with moderate-to-high access to SER ("cognitive resilience"), whereas 11.4% demonstrated markedly lower performance relative to the other profiles (i.e., 1.3-2.3 SD below the sample mean; "cognitive vulnerability"). Ridge regression identified ecological factors associated with profile membership at the individual level and within family, neighborhood, and school contexts. Suburban residence (odds ratio [OR] = 1.30), advanced pubertal maturity (OR = 1.20), bilingualism (OR = 1.14), and greater caregiver monitoring (OR = 1.10) were most strongly associated with lower-SER youths' membership in the resilient versus the vulnerable profile. Results emphasize the need to challenge deficit-centered frameworks by investigating heterogeneity within profiles of adversity-exposed youth and identifying context-specific risk and protective factors.
Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: U01DA041048; U01DA050989; U01DA051016; U01DA041022; U01DA051018; U01DA051037; U01DA050987; U01DA041174; U01DA041106; U01DA041117; U01DA041028; U01DA041134; U01DA050988; U01DA051039; U01DA041156; U01DA041025; U01DA041120; U01DA051038; U01DA041148; U01DA041093; U01DA041089; U24DA041123; U24DA041147; R01ES032295; R01ES031074
Author Affiliations: 1Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; 2Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; 3Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA