Investigating the Associations between Family Alliance and Executive Functioning in Middle Childhood

Autor/inn/en	Hébert, Élizabeth; Regueiro, Sophie; Bernier, Annie
Titel	Investigating the Associations between Family Alliance and Executive Functioning in Middle Childhood
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 22 (2021) 5, S.789-805 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hébert, Élizabeth) ORCID (Bernier, Annie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2021.1956930
Schlagwörter	Family Relationship; Child Development; Executive Function; Foreign Countries; Cognitive Development; Parent Child Relationship; Interaction; Kindergarten; Grade 4; Inhibition; Cognitive Processes; Short Term Memory; Predictor Variables; Age Differences; Family Environment; Individual Characteristics; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kindesentwicklung; Ausland; Kognitive Entwicklung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Interaktion; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Hemmung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Prädiktor; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Familienmilieu; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Kanada
Abstract	There is now wide consensus that the quality of family relationships is involved in the development of child executive functioning (EF), a set of cognitive skills that bear critical importance for social and academic adjustment at school. This body of research has, however, focused almost exclusively on dyadic parent-child interactions and failed to consider higher-level family processes. Consequently, the current study focused on family alliance, that is, the degree of coordination that father, mother, and child achieve while interacting together, as a predictor of individual differences in children's EF. A community sample of 87 intact families (45 boys) participated in a triadic mother-father-child interaction when children were in kindergarten to assess family alliance. Children were assessed again when they were in Grade 4 with tasks of inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and working memory. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that higher-quality family alliance was predictive of better child performance on some cognitive flexibility and working memory tasks. These results indicate that some of the individual differences in child EF at school age may originate in the quality of the early family environment. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01