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Xiaoliang Zhu; Yixin Tang; Jiaqi Lu; Minyuan Song; Chunliang Yang; Xin Zhao – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
Mathematical ability is a crucial component of human cognitive function, which is defined as the ability to acquire, process, and store mathematical information. While many studies have documented a close relationship between elementary school children's inhibitory control and their mathematical ability, existing empirical evidence remains…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Elementary School Students, Inhibition, Self Control
Michelle Kiep; Annelies Spek; Eva Ceulemans; Ilse Noens – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Purpose: One of the core features that can be experienced by adults on the autism spectrum is hyper- and hyporeactivity to sensory stimuli. Research suggests that executive functioning (EF) impairments are related to sensory issues. In this study the relationship between sensory processing issues and EF was investigated. We expected sensory…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Executive Function, Sensory Experience
Schmidt, Henning; Daseking, Monika; Gawrilow, Caterina; Karbach, Julia; Kerner auch Koerner, Julia – Developmental Science, 2022
The concepts of executive function (EF) and effortful control (EC) are strikingly similar. EF originate from neurocognitive research and are described as an accumulation of cognitive processes that serve the goal-oriented self-regulation (SR) of an individual. EC originates from temperament research and is defined as the efficiency of executive…
Descriptors: Self Control, Preschool Children, Executive Function, Correlation
Natalie H. Stagnone; John C. Thorne; Julia T. Mattson; Sara T. Kover – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
Executive function is an area of challenge for both children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Parent ratings of everyday executive function relate to a range of outcomes, including social functioning in ASD. Comparisons between FASD and ASD have revealed both overlapping and distinct…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Alejandro Gonzalez-Andrade; Javier Tubío; Aitor Alvarez-Bardon; Sandra Santiago-Ramajo – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2024
Executive functions (EF) play a fundamental role in the acquisition of learning, especially in mathematics. The literature seems to indicate that fitness and physical activity (PA) have an important impact on cognition, including EF. Although the relationship between these variables seems evident, few studies have investigated the mediation role…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Mathematics Skills, Physical Activities, Correlation
Lauren E. Philbrook – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The present study examined children's diurnal cortisol as a moderator of the association between parenting sensitivity at bedtime and young children's executive functioning and emotion regulation. Fifty-one children (M[subscript age] = 4.47 years) and their families participated. Parenting sensitivity was assessed from video recordings of child…
Descriptors: Young Children, Physiology, Parenting Styles, Executive Function
Moh'd Shoqeirat; Mohammad Alkhawaldeh; Mamduh Alzaben; Mohammad Sulaiman; Manar Hasan; Khaled Naimat – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2024
This study explores the relationship between executive functions, positive psychology, and depression within the context of a positive neuropsychological framework. The participants comprised 286 university students (113 male and 173 female). The study utilized the Executive Function Index (EFI), Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), and Positive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Executive Function, Positive Attitudes
Laura Dörrenbächer-Ulrich; Marius Bregulla – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Self-regulated learning (SRL) and executive functions (EF) are broad concepts stemming from different research areas. They have been defined and modeled in various ways and are repeatedly related to each other in the literature, but so far, no systematic analyses of these relations have been published. Therefore, a systematic analysis of their…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Executive Function, Metacognition, Age Groups
Freis, Samantha M.; Morrison, Claire L.; Lessem, Jeffrey M.; Hewitt, John K.; Friedman, Naomi P. – Developmental Science, 2022
Executive functions (EFs) and intelligence (IQ) are phenotypically correlated. In twin studies, latent variables for EFs and IQ display moderate to high heritability estimates; however, they show variable genetic correlations in twin studies spanning childhood to middle age. We analyzed data from over 11,000 children (9- to 10-year-olds, including…
Descriptors: Genetics, Environmental Influences, Executive Function, Intelligence
Linlin Liang; Ni Zhang; Wen Liu; Linlin Lin; Xue Zhang – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Externalizing problem behaviors, such as childhood aggression, have a significant impact on adolescent delinquency and even adult delinquency and violence. Mother's attitudes and behaviors can impact the self-control and regulation of preschoolers, which in turn reflect in preschoolers' externalizing problems. Objective: This…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Aggression, Preschool Children
Bruce, Madeleine; Savla, Jyoti; Bell, Martha Ann – Developmental Science, 2023
Across the early childhood period of development, young children exhibit considerable growth in their executive functioning (EF) and vocabulary abilities. Understanding the developmental trajectory of these seemingly interrelated processes is important as both early vocabulary and EF have been shown to predict critical academic and socio-emotional…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Executive Function, Child Development, Preschool Children
Julia B. Barrón-Martínez; Judith Salvador-Cruz – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2025
Background: The aim was to explore the executive function profile of a group of Mexican people with Down syndrome (DS) aged 12-30 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aim: To analyse the relationships between mental, chronological age and eight domains of executive function. Method: Participants were 42 people with DS with a chronological age (CA)…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Down Syndrome, COVID-19, Pandemics
Anderman, Eric M.; Gilman, Richard; Liu, Xingfeiyue; Ha, Seung Yon – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
We examine the relationships of executive functioning problems (EFP) to academic cheating in a sample of 855 adolescents. Participants completed assessments of inattention, hyperactivity, and depression using the BASC-2, as well as peer-reports of externalizing behavior. After controlling for known predictors of cheating (e.g., demographics and…
Descriptors: Attention, Executive Function, Hyperactivity, Cheating
Zhao, Lei – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
A growing number of researchers have begun to highlight the potential negative effects of the excessive use of social media on college students. In particular, college students engage in social media multitasking, in which they perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Such action could adversely influence their academic performance. Hence, on the…
Descriptors: Social Media, College Students, Student Behavior, Academic Achievement
Tal Ness; Valerie J. Langlois; Albert E. Kim; Jared M. Novick – Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2025
Understanding language requires readers and listeners to cull meaning from fast-unfolding messages that often contain conflicting cues pointing to incompatible ways of interpreting the input (e.g., "The cat was chased by the mouse"). This article reviews mounting evidence from multiple methods demonstrating that cognitive control plays…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Cues