ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2023
The Relationship between Narrative Skills and Executive Functions across Childhood: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Executive Functioning as a Mediator Between Digital Media Exposure and Communication Outcomes in Children and Adolescents.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- What Silent Pauses Can 'Tell' Us About the Storytelling Skills of Autistic Children: Relations Between Pausing, Language Skills and Executive Functions.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- The role of narrative structure in scaffolding children's recall.Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society · 2025Article
- Is Narrative Comprehension Embodied? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Narrative and Motor Skills in Preschoolers.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Characterizing Long COVID Symptoms During Early Childhood.JAMA pediatrics · 2025Article
- Controlling the narrative: the relationship between narrative ability and executive functioning in children with developmental language disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- I have to keep going for my kids (Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
Executive functions (EFs) and narrative competence (NC) are two important predictors of many outcomes in human development. To date, however, it is unclear whether these skills develop synergistically-supporting or opposing each other-or whether they are independent of each other. The purpose of this meta-analysis is to understand if these skills are related to over development and if the magnitude of their association changes over time; differs in typical and atypical development; and changes with EF (inhibition, working memory, flexibility, planning) and NC (oral, written; micro and macrostructural level). For this purpose, 30 studies containing 285 effect sizes were selected and combined. The results show that EFs and NC are weakly associated with each other (r = 0.236,
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