On the Importance of Being Flexible: Early Interrelations between Affective Flexibility, Executive Functions and Anxiety Symptoms in Preschoolers

Autor/inn/en	Marcu?, Oana; Martins, Eva Costa; Sassu, Raluca; Visu-Petra, Laura
Titel	On the Importance of Being Flexible: Early Interrelations between Affective Flexibility, Executive Functions and Anxiety Symptoms in Preschoolers
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 192 (2022) 6, S.914-931 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Marcu?, Oana) ORCID (Martins, Eva Costa) ORCID (Sassu, Raluca) ORCID (Visu-Petra, Laura)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2020.1816995
Schlagwörter	Affective Behavior; Preschool Children; Executive Function; Predictor Variables; Cognitive Ability; Individual Differences; Age Differences; Measures (Individuals); Intelligence Tests; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Emotional Disturbances; Resilience (Psychology); Task Analysis; Inhibition; Short Term Memory; Mothers; Educational Attainment; Foreign Countries; Recall (Psychology); Listening Skills; Nonverbal Communication; Emotional Response; Anxiety; Romania; Raven Progressive Matrices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Prädiktor; Denkfähigkeit; Individueller Unterschied; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Messdaten; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Gefühlsstörung; Aufgabenanalyse; Hemmung; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Mother; Mutter; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Ausland; Abberufung; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Emotionales Verhalten; Angst; Rumänien
Abstract	When children are confronted with an emotional problem, affective flexibility mobilizes their cognitive and emotional resources to optimally address it. We investigated the contribution of executive functions to cognitive and affective flexibility in preschoolers. We assessed affective flexibility in 67 preschoolers (30 girls; M[subscript months] = 61.77, SD = 11.08 months) using an innovative measure -- the Emotional Flexible Item Selection Task (EM-FIST), plus cool measures of executive functions (working memory, inhibition and cognitive flexibility), anxiety symptoms and intelligence. Findings revealed that affective flexibility improves during the preschool years. While individual differences in age and proactive inhibition predicted cognitive flexibility, a different constellation of predictors (maternal education, proactive inhibition, working memory and age) were significant for affective flexibility. Cognitive flexibility didn't contribute to affective flexibility beyond the predictors mentioned above. Anxiety exerted a negative effect on affective flexibility in a high anxious subgroup of preschoolers, but only when processing negative, relative to happy faces, supporting the Attentional Control Theory which predicts valence-related executive impairments. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01