Educational quality may be a closer correlate of cardiometabolic health than educational attainment

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dc.contributor.authorCundiff, Jenny M.
dc.contributor.authorLin, Shayne S-H
dc.contributor.authorFaulk, Robert D.
dc.contributor.authorMcDonough, Ian M.
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-28T20:58:42Z
dc.date.available2023-09-28T20:58:42Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractEducational quality may be a closer correlate of physical health than more commonly used measures of educational attainment (e.g., years in school). We examined whether a widely-used performance-based measure of educational quality is more closely associated with cardiometabolic health than educational attainment (highest level of education completed), and whether perceived control (smaller sample only), executive functioning (both samples), and health literacy (smaller sample only) link educational quality to cardiometabolic health. In two samples (N = 98 and N = 586) collected from different regions of the US, educational quality was associated with cardiometabolic health above and beyond educational attainment, other demographic factors (age, ethnoracial category, sex), and fluid intelligence. Counter to expectations, neither perceived control, executive function, nor health literacy significantly mediated the association between educational quality and cardiometabolic health. Findings add to the growing literature suggesting that current operationalizations of the construct of education likely underestimate the association between education and multiple forms of health. To the extent that educational programs may have been overlooked based on the apparent size of associations with outcomes, such actions may have been premature.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationCundiff, J. M., Lin, S. S.-H., Faulk, R. D., & McDonough, I. M. (2022). Educational quality may be a closer correlate of cardiometabolic health than educational attainment. In Scientific Reports (Vol. 12, Issue 1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22666-3
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41598-022-22666-3
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1778-5647
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/11949
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherNature Portfolio
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectNEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST-PERFORMANCE
dc.subjectSOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS
dc.subjectPERCEIVED CONTROL
dc.subjectEXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
dc.subjectAFRICAN-AMERICAN
dc.subjectINDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES
dc.subjectREADING LEVEL
dc.subjectLITERACY
dc.subjectRELIABILITY
dc.subjectCOGNITION
dc.subjectMultidisciplinary Sciences
dc.titleEducational quality may be a closer correlate of cardiometabolic health than educational attainmenten_US
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