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Attachment to Teacher, Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Executive Functions
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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
Self-Regulation and Play: How Children's Play Directed with Executive Function and Emotion Regulation
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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
A Cross-Sectional Study of Inhibitory Control in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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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
Executive Function and Learning Behaviors: Associations with Academic Skills among Preschoolers
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Beisly, Amber; Kwon, Kyong-Ah; Jeon, Shinyoung – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This study examined the associations of preschool children's executive function (EF) and learning behaviour (CLB) with their concurrent academic skills and the role of CLB as a mediator for the EF-academic skills link. One hundred seventy-nine children were assessed on EF and math and literacy skills. Parents and teachers completed a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Preschool Children, Mathematics Skills, Literacy
Gender Differences in Executive Function and Behavioural Self-Regulation in 5 Years Old Kindergarteners from East Japan
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Yamamoto, Noriko; Imai-Matsumura, Kyoko – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
The present study examined gender differences in kindergarten students' ability for behavioural self-regulation and executive function in East Japan. One hundred and eleven 5-year-old children were assessed on behavioural self-regulation, inhibitory, and working memory tasks (direct measurement). Children's responses to the teacher's instructions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Executive Function, Self Control
Family Context of Low-Income Young Children and Their Self-Regulation in the United States and Turkey
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Veziroglu-Celik, Mefharet; Garcia, Aileen; Acar, Ibrahim H.; Gonen, Mubeccel; Raikes, Helen; Korkmaz, Aysel; Ucus, Sukran; Esteraich, Jan; Colgrove, Amy – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The current study examines the contributions of family context (e.g. life events, home environments) to low-income preschool children's self-regulation (behaviour regulation and executive function) in the United States and Turkey. Participants were 1139 low-income children (486 from the U.S. and 653 from Turkey) and their parents. Children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Family Influence, Context Effect