Associations between epigenetic markers of disruptive behaviours, early life adversity and childcare attendance.

Social embodiment is the process of how environment and social experiences get under the skin early in life in biological ways that affect human physiological and social development. For children exposed daily to adversity in their family environment, childcare attendance (i.e., regular non-parental childcare services) might be a protective factor for children social development. Childcare services are widely used in western industrialized countries, yet, their impact on children physiological functioning and their potentially protective role for children exposed to high family adversity are understudied. The aims of this project are 1) to investigate the role of epigenetic profiles as a putative mechanism linking early familial environments to disruptive behaviors, and 2) to test the moderating role of childcare attendance between early familial environment and epigenetic profiles. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Sylvana Côté

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Partner:

King's College London

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

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