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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
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Josué Rico-Picó; M. del Carmen Garcia-de-Soria Bazan; Ángela Conejero; Sebastián Moyano; Ángela Hoyo; María de los Ángeles Ballesteros-Duperón; Karla Holmboe; M. Rosario Rueda – Developmental Science, 2025
Executive control (EC) emerges in the first year of life, with the ability to inhibit prepotent responses (inhibitory control [IC]) and to flexibly readapt (cognitive flexibility [CF]) steadily improving. Simultaneously, electrophysiological brain activity undergoes profound reconfiguration, which has been linked to individual variability in EC.…
Descriptors: Infants, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Brain, Executive Function
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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
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Hande Arslan Çiftçi; Gülden Uyanik; Ibrahim Hakki Acar – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The current study endeavors to assess the impact of the Preschool Executive Functions Intervention Program (PEFIP) on children's executive functions. A quasi-experimental design was employed, encompassing both pre-test and post-test assessments within a control group, complemented by follow-up evaluations over a 5-week period. The sample comprises…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Executive Function, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
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Laura Maria Fatta; Elizabeth A. Laugeson; Dora Bianchi; Italian Peers® team support group; Fiorenzo Laghi; Maria Luisa Scattoni – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
The "Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills" (PEERS®) is an intervention targeting social skills for autistic adolescents and those with other social challenges. The efficacy of the PEERS® on adolescents has been extensively explored but the program has not been validated in Italy. In the present study, we adapted…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Foreign Countries, Intervention
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Robert C. Pianta; Arya Ansari; Jessica E. Whittaker; Virginia Vitiello; Margaret Burchinal – Elementary School Journal, 2025
The study examines students' skills at kindergarten entry and gains in skills across the kindergarten through first-grade period (pre-COVID-19) for predicting literacy, language, math, inhibitory control, and social-adjustment outcomes in the spring of fourth grade, after schools reopened. In a large US school district, longitudinal data were…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Student Development, Grade 4