Presenter(s): Jingjie Lu—Psychology
Faculty Mentor(s): Leticia Hayes, Tyson Barker
Session 6: Cerebal Matters
Early childhood is a critical time period for cognitive development, and children exposed to adverse familial stress may impair child cognitive development . Therefore, my hypothesis is parents with a greater stress index will be correlated to higher levels of oxidative stress biomarker-F2 Isoprostane, and lower levels of executive function and language development in their biological children . The tests administered to assess children’s cognitive ability mainly focus on the domains of executive function and language development . We also collected parent-child urine samples to assess parent- child oxidative stress biomarker (F2 Isoprostane) levels, and administered psychological stress questionnaires to the parent . For this research, parent stress will be analyzed from responses on the Parent Stress Index-IV questionnaire . All scores will be compared between the child participants aged three to six on executive function and language measures (N=103) .