For Better or for Worse? Positive and Negative Parental Influences on Young Children's Executive Function
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Hughes, Claire https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2545-3025
Devine, RT
Abstract
Despite rapidly growing research on parental influences on children's executive function (EF), the uniqueness and specificity of parental predictors and links between adult EF and parenting remain unexamined. This 13-month longitudinal study of 117 parent–child dyads (60 boys; Mage at Time 1 = 3.94 years, SD = 0.53) included detailed observational coding of parent–child interactions and assessed adult and child EF and child verbal ability (VA). Supporting a differentiated view of parental influence, negative parent–child interactions and parental scaffolding showed unique and specific associations with child EF, whereas the home learning environment and parental language measures showed global associations with children's EF and VA.
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Adult, Child, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Executive Function, Female, Humans, Language, Learning, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Parenting, Parents
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Child Development
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0009-3920
1467-8624
1467-8624
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Wiley
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Economic and Social Research Council (ES/J021180/1)
This study was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ES/JO21180/1) and the Isaac Newton Trust, Cambridge.