ReviewDevelopmental psychology2020
Measurement models for studying child executive functioning: Questioning the status quo.
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- Examining the effectiveness of a video-based parent-child program on executive functions for children 5 to 6 years old: A randomized controlled trial.Child developmentTrial
- Exploring a Range of Potential Factors Promoting and Constraining EF in South African Preschoolers.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Early life trajectories of head circumference predict executive function and fluid cognitive skills at age 4 in Kenya.Journal of developmental origins of health and disease · 2025Article
- Child maltreatment and executive function development throughout adolescence and into young adulthood.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Validation of an Adaptive Assessment of Executive Functions (Adaptive Cognitive Evaluation-Explorer): Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Analyses of Cognitive Task Performance.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- GenomicSEM Modelling of Diverse Executive Function GWAS Improves Gene Discovery.Behavior genetics · 2025Article
- Enhancing children's numeracy and executive functions via their explicit integration.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- A comparison of scoring algorithms for the NIH Toolbox executive function tasks in a U.S. norming sample.Psychological assessment · 2024Article
- Risk and Protective Factors for Executive Function in Vulnerable South African Preschool-Age Children.Journal of cognition · 2024Article
- Latent Network Analysis of Executive Functions Across Development.Journal of cognition · 2024Article
- The Impact of Executive Dysfunction on Anxiety in Hearing-Impaired College Students: Smartphone Addiction as a Mediator and Academic Procrastination as a Moderator.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Better together: novel methods for measuring and modeling development of executive function diversity while accounting for unity.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- The association between working memory, teacher-student relationship, and academic performance in primary school children.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Factor structure of school readiness skills: conceptual vs. statistical distinctions.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Understanding patterns of heterogeneity in executive functioning during adolescence: Evidence from population-level data.Developmental science · 2022Article
- Development of directed global inhibition, competitive inhibition and behavioural inhibition during the transition between infancy and toddlerhood.Developmental science · 2022Article
- Parental Arrest and Child Behavior: Differential Role of Executive Functioning among Racial Subgroups.Journal of child and family studies · 2022Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Trauma Exposure and Executive Functions in Children: Findings from a Dutch Birth Cohort Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Self-Regulation in Preschool: Examining Its Factor Structure and Associations With Pre-academic Skills and Social-Emotional Competence.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Executive Function and Self-Regulation: Bi-Directional Longitudinal Associations and Prediction of Early Academic Skills.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Despite widespread interest in the construct of executive functioning (EF), we currently lack definitive evidence regarding the best measurement model for representing the construct in substantive analyses. The most common practice is to represent EF ability as a reflective latent variable, with child performance on individual EF tasks as observed indicators. The current article critically evaluates the dominant use of reflective latent variable models in the child EF literature and compares them to composite models, a reasonable alternative. We review the literature suggesting that reflective latent variable models may not be the most appropriate representation of the construct of EF. Using preschool (M
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