ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2018
Do executive functions explain the covariance between internalizing and externalizing behaviors?
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- Childhood Maltreatment and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms among Justice-Involved Youth: The Role of Executive Function.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
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- Associations between executive functioning, challenging behavior, and quality of life in children and adolescents with and without neurodevelopmental conditions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Executive Functions and Impulsivity as Transdiagnostic Correlates of Psychopathology in Childhood: A Behavioral Genetic Analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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- Slow drift rate predicts ADHD symptomology over and above executive dysfunction.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study examined whether executive functions (EFs) might be common features of internalizing and externalizing behavior problems across development. We examined relations between three EF latent variables (a common EF factor and factors specific to updating working memory and shifting sets), constructed from nine laboratory tasks administered at age 17, to latent growth intercept (capturing stability) and slope (capturing change) factors of teacher- and parent-reported internalizing and externalizing behaviors in 885 individual twins aged 7 to 16 years. We then estimated the proportion of intercept-intercept and slope-slope correlations predicted by EF as well as the association between EFs and a common psychopathology factor (P factor) estimated from all 9 years of internalizing and externalizing measures. Common EF was negatively associated with the intercepts of teacher-rated internalizing and externalizing behavior in males, and explained 32% of their covariance; in the P factor model, common EF was associated with the P factor in males. Shifting-specific was positively associated with the externalizing slope across sex. EFs did not explain covariation between parent-rated behaviors. These results suggest that EFs are associated with stable problem behavior variation, explain small proportions of covariance, and are a risk factor that that may depend on gender.
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