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ArticleJournal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence2024

Associations between middle childhood executive control aspects and adolescent substance use and externalizing and internalizing problems.

W Alex Mason, Charles B Fleming, Irina Patwardhan, Ying Guo, Tiffany D James, Jennifer Mize Nelson, Kimberly Andrews Espy, Timothy D Nelson

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Article in Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Adolescent executive function as a resilience factor in the family stress model among Mexican-origin families.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025
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8 authors.

W Alex MasonDepartment of Child, Youth and Family Studies, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8132-8045
Charles B FlemingCenter for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Irina PatwardhanChild and Family Translational Research Center, Boys Town, Boys Town, Nebraska, USA.
Ying GuoDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Tiffany D JamesOffice of Research and Economic Development, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Jennifer Mize NelsonOffice of Research and Economic Development, 301 Canfield Administration and Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Kimberly Andrews EspyOffice of the President, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Timothy D NelsonDepartment of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

Funding

Testing the Efficacy of Ibudilast to Attenuate Meth-seeking and Associated Synaptic Inflammation at the Synapse (TEAMS)P20GM130461 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI KIMBERLY A TYLER · 2019 to 2026
$20.6M
Executive Function Development in Preschool ChildrenR01MH065668 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI ESPY, KIMBERLY ANDREWS, WIEBE, SANDRA A. · 2004 to 2013
$4.8M
Role of Executive Control in Adolescent Substance Use and Co-occuring ProblemsR01DA041738 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR · PI MASON, W ALEX, NELSON, TIMOTHY DAVID · 2017 to 2021
$3.1M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA041738NIDA NIH HHS R01DA041738NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM130461NIGMS NIH HHS P20GM130461NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH065668NIMH NIH HHS R01MH065668
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study examines the degree to which two middle childhood executive control aspects, working memory and combined inhibitory control/flexible shifting, predict adolescent substance use and externalizing and internalizing problems. Participants were 301 children (ages 3-6 years; 48.2% male) recruited from a Midwestern city in the United States and followed into adolescence (ages 14-18 years). Working memory had a statistically significant unadjusted association with externalizing problems (r = -.30, p = .003) in a confirmatory factor analysis. Neither factor significantly predicted any of the adolescent outcomes in a structural equation model that adjusted for each EC aspect, sociodemographic covariates, and middle childhood externalizing and internalizing problems. Stronger prediction of EC aspects might not emerge until they become more fully differentiated later in development.

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Executive FunctionMemory, Short-TermSubstance-Related DisordersAdolescentAdolescent BehaviorChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansInhibition, PsychologicalInternal-External ControlLongitudinal StudiesMaleadolescencechildhoodexecutive controlexecutive functionproblem behaviorsworking memory

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PMID38757393
PMCPMC11349481

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