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Direct linkAnn Folker; Christina Bertrand; Yelim Hong; Laurence Steinberg; Natasha Duell; Lei Chang; Laura Di Giunta; Kenneth A. Dodge; Sevtap Gurdal; Daranee Junla; Jennifer E. Lansford; Paul Oburu; Concetta Pastorelli; Ann T. Skinner; Emma Sorbring; Marc H. Bornstein; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong; Liane Peña Alampay; Suha M. Al-Hassan; Dario Bacchini; Kirby Deater-Deckard – Developmental Science, 2025
Executive functioning (EF) is an important developing self-regulatory process that has implications for academic, social, and emotional outcomes. Most work in EF has focused on childhood, and less has examined the development of EF throughout adolescence and into emerging adulthood. The present study assessed longitudinal trajectories of EF from…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Adolescents, Young Adults, Age Differences
Download full textSebnem Özge Özsoy; Hatice Dagli; H. Elif Daglioglu – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
This study aims to examine preschool children's executive function skills and motivation about various variables and determine the relationship between these two domains. A correlational survey method was employed in the study, and the study group consisted of 224 children aged 48-72 months attending preschool education institutions in Türkiye.…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Preschool Children, Student Motivation, Predictor Variables
Lucas G. Gago-Galvagno; Stephanie E. Miller; Natalia A. Mancini; Ailin C. Simaes; Angel M. Elgier; Susana C. Azzollini – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Although executive functions (EFs) have been identified as a cornerstone of cognitive development, knowledge of this fundamental ability in children is based primarily on research with North American and Western European samples of middle to high socioeconomic status (SES). In this article, we highlight advances in research on developmental EFs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Children, Cultural Context
Laure Lu Chen; Jean Anne Heng; Chengyi Xu; Michelle R. Ellefson; Miryam Edwards; Hana D'Souza; Elian Fink; Mikeda Jess; Louise Gray; Caoimhe Dempsey; Mishika Mehrotra; Siu Ching Wong; Catherine Wu; Brittany Huang; Jiayin Zheng; Zhen Wu; Rory T. Devine; Claire Hughes – Child Development, 2025
Cross-site comparisons indicate that East Asian children typically excel on tests of executive function (EF), but interpreting this contrast is made difficult by both the heavy reliance on testing in school settings and by the scarcity of studies that assess across-site measurement invariance. Addressing these gaps, our study included remote…
Descriptors: Children, Executive Function, Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development
Jonathan Lassen; Bob Oranje; Martin Vestergaard; Malene Foldager; Troels W. Kjaer; Bodil Aggernaes; Sidse Arnfred – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Compared to their neurotypically developing peers, children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders tend to have attenuated neural responses in the parietal lobe when attending sensory input, as reflected by a reduced P3b amplitude measured with electroencephalography. However, it is unknown whether a reduced P3b amplitude in autistic…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Cognitive Processes, Executive Function, Interpersonal Competence
Atsuko Nakagawa; Masune Sukigara; Kayo Nomura; Yukiyo Nagai; Taishi Miyachi – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Objective: In preterm and very low birth weight (VLBW) infants, attention-related problems have been found to be more pronounced and emerge later as academic difficulties that may persist into school age. In response, based on three attention networks: alerting, orienting, and executive attention, we examined the development of attention functions…
Descriptors: Attention, Young Children, Body Weight, Executive Function
Jongjit Kaosim; Santi Wijakkanalan; Chaiyuth Sirisuthi – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This research aimed to develop an integrated learning experience model through storytelling to promote executive functions in early childhood and investigate children's executive tasks. Using purposive sampling, the target group consisted of 40 kindergarten children in their third year at Khon Kaen Kindergarten School, during the first semester of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
Lisette Wijbenga; Jorien van der Velde; Eliza L. Korevaar; Sijmen A. Reijneveld; Jacomijn Hofstra; Andrea F. de Winter – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Increasing mental health issues, such as emotional problems, pose a threat for the academic performance of undergraduate students. We propose a route connecting emotional problems and academic performance through executive functioning skills (EFS). Despite the abundance of research on the topic of EFS, there is a significant gap in understanding…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Academic Achievement, Executive Function, Undergraduate Students
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
Doris Antonia Rogobete; Thea Ionescu; Mircea Miclea – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
This study aimed to investigate the differential relationship between Temperament, Executive Functioning (EF) and Media Use Motivations and the frequency of two kinds of Media Multitasking (MM) in early adolescence. Results showed differential roles of temperamental Effortful Control, Negative Affectivity and Affiliativeness in predicting academic…
Descriptors: Attention, Executive Function, Motivation, Adolescents
Ebru Ger; Svenja Cibien; Claudia M. Roebers – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2025
This study addressed potential differential effects of EF training as a function of language background. Training monolingual children with EF-fostering challenges and feedback may support them more than multilinguals, who face comparable challenges when switching languages. We assessed monolingual (n = 110) and multilingual (n = 91) 6-year-olds…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Training, Monolingualism, Feedback (Response)
Eva Yi Hung Lau; Xiao-yuan Wu; Carrey Tik Sze Siu; Kate E. Williams; Alfredo Bautista – Child Development, 2025
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the "Parent-child Brain Camp," a 4-week video-based executive functions (EFs) training program for children ages 5-6, through a randomized controlled trial with a pre- and post-test design with 173 Hong Kong children (intervention "ni" = 79, 48.7% girls, M[subscript age] = 69.16 months;…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Comparative Analysis, Intervention
Adi Avramovich; Menahem Yeari – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
The present study explored whether poor executive functions (EF) underlying the difficulties of individuals with ADHD in reading comprehension (RC) are general or specific to the textual content they regulate. To address this question, adolescents with and without ADHD answered questions following the reading of texts and completed a series of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adolescents, Grade 8
McGuckian, Thomas B.; Wilson, Peter H.; Johnston, Rich D.; Rahimi-Golkhandan, Shahin; Piek, Jan; Green, Dido; Rogers, Jeffrey M.; Maruff, Paul; Steenbergen, Bert; Ruddock, Scott – Child Development, 2023
This longitudinal study modeled children's complex executive function (EF) development using the Groton Maze Learning Task (GMLT). Using a cohort-sequential design, 147 children (61 males, 5.5-11 years) were recruited from six multicultural primary schools in Melbourne and Perth, Australia. Race/ethnicity data were not available. Children were…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Executive Function, Elementary School Students
Xin-Xin Huang; Li-Zhen Zheng; Qin-Fang Qian; Yan Huang; Yan-Xia Wang; Ping Ou – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Background: In addition to attention and hyperactivity problems, children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have poorer organizational skills needed to manage time and materials. This study examines the improvement of organizational skills in children with ADHD by studying organizational skills training (OST). Methods: This was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Organizational Development, Time Management
