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Duval, Stéphanie; Montminy, Noémie; Brault Foisy, Lorie-Marlène; Arapi, Enkeleda; Vézina, Sophie-Anne – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study aims to bridge a gap between Vygotsky's seminal framework on the importance of make-believe play and adult scaffolding in children's cognitive development (e.g. executive function [EFs]) and research in cognitive neuroscience. Kindergarten children (N = 160) and teachers (N = 12) took part in the study. EFs skills and make-believe play…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Imagination, Play, Executive Function
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Sadeghi, Saeid; Shalani, Bita; Nejati, Vahid – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The inhibitory control (IC) is one of the basic executive functions (EFs) that all other EFs are hierarchically perched on this ability. Current knowledge of IC development in the elementary school years is limited. In this study, three tasks; go/no-go task (response inhibition), flanker task (attentional inhibition), and circle-tracing time task…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Inhibition, Self Control
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Odelia van Stryp; Michael J. Duncan; Eileen Africa – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Developing children's FMS and executive function is a critical aspect of early childhood. The aim was to evaluate the fundamental movement skills (FMS) and executive function. The objectives were to investigate the locomotor and object control skills as well as inhibitory control and working memory of the selected children. Grade 1 (6-8-years-old)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychomotor Skills, Executive Function, Inhibition
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Claudio Longobardi; Laura Elvira Prino; Michele Settanni; Matteo Angelo Fabris – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Attendance at preschool represents an important transition, as it is often here that children have their first experience with unfamiliar adults. In this context, several factors can affect children's adjustment. Two important protective factors are the attachment relationship with the teacher and the level of executive functions. We investigate…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Executive Function, Behavior Problems
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Mengyan Fang; Runke Huang; Zuofei Geng – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Executive function (EF) is essential for developing social competence (SC) in early childhood. However, previous research has primarily taken a general perspective of SC and overlooked its components. Furthermore, although EF and SC are known to influence each other across childhood, the mechanisms of this interaction remain unclear. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Interpersonal Competence, Correlation
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Kolak, Amy M.; Dean, Caitlin H. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This multi-method study examined mothers' and fathers' cognitive stimulation during parent--child interactions and toddlers' moral regulation (assessed via parent reports) as predictors of their executive functioning skills approximately 2½ years later. Forty children (23 girls and 17 boys) and their parents participated in both timepoints.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Preschool Children, Mothers, Fathers
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Zeng, Xiao; Yang, Lijun; Zhu, Xiaoqian; Zhou, Ke; Zhang, Juan; Yan, Zhiqiang – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Empathy is crucial for our social life, with evidences suggesting that executive function is the cognitive basis of empathy. However, debates about the causal relationship between executive function and empathy still exist. A two-wave and one-year longitudinal follow-up experiment is conducted to investigate this problem, mainly focusing on…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Executive Function, Empathy, Child Development
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Housman, Donna K.; Cabral, Howard; Aniskovich, Katsiaryna; Denham, Susanne A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Research has shown that the first few years of a child's life are critical for developing executive functioning and emotional regulatory skills. This study aimed to evaluate how begin to ECSEL (Emotional, Cognitive and Social Early Learning), an intervention designed to promote young children's emotional competence, influenced children's…
Descriptors: Self Control, Executive Function, Intervention, Preschool Children
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Hamamci, Beyza; Balaban Dagal, Asude – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The associations of children's play behaviour to their emotional regulation, executive functioning were examined in this study. Teachers rated children's play behaviour, emotional regulation and executive functioning. The study sample comprised 127 (Mage in months = 60.685, SD = 9.563; 64 girls) Turkish children who continued formal education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Play, Executive Function
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Khalil Toor, Hafsa; Hanif, Rubina – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between maternal, paternal mental state talk and the quality of parenting on preschoolers' executive function (EF) skills. The sample included 120 dyads (father-child & mother-child). The preschooler aged 3.1-5.99 years (M[subscript age] = 4.60, SD = 0.90) were approached at their schools to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Executive Function, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Skills
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Zhou, Vanessa; Wilson, Beverly J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Inhibitory control (IC) ability in early childhood is associated with positive socioemotional, academic, and behavioural outcomes later in life. However, inhibitory control in young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is not well understood. We conducted a large, cross-sectional study comparing IC ability of young children with ASD and…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Self Control, Inhibition, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Orr, Edna; Dorfberger, Shoshi – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Forest learning has been encouraged globally in recent years as it regularly provides opportunities to interact with nature and one's own abilities. The contributions of forest and traditional kindergarten and home environment to children's ecological cognition and how ecological cognition relates to executive function (EF) is understudied.…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Natural Resources, Preschool Education, Executive Function
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Longobardi, Emiddia; Spataro, Pietro; Morelli, Mara; Laghi, Fiorenzo – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The present study examined the way in which behavioural difficulties in cool and hot EFs relate to measures of cognitive and affective ToM in preschoolers. A total of 144 children between 35 and 71 months were assessed with a first-order false-belief task (measuring cognitive ToM), the Test of Emotion Comprehension (measuring affective ToM) and a…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Theory of Mind, Short Term Memory, Preschool Children
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Jacob, Lisa; Dörrenbächer, Sandra; Perels, Franziska – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
During preschool age, three precursors to self-regulated learning (SRL) can be identified: general self-regulation ability, speech competence, and executive functioning. There is evidence for a large interindividual heterogeneity in these precursors which may have an impact on the development of SRL. This study (a) examined heterogeneity in SRL…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Self Management, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
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Yan, Zhiqiang; Pei, Meng; Su, Yanjie – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Empathy for pain in daily life is more complex than in lab settings and involved higher cognitive abilities. In order to investigate the role of executive function in preschoolers' empathy for pain, we investigated the role of three subcomponents of executive function (inhibitory control, working memory and cognitive flexibility) in children's…
Descriptors: Empathy, Pain, Executive Function, Preschool Children
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