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Two Approaches to Estimating the Effect of Parenting on the Development of Executive Function in Early Childhood
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Blair, Clancy; Raver, C. Cybele; Berry, Daniel J. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
In the current article, we contrast 2 analytical approaches to estimate the relation of parenting to executive function development in a sample of 1,292 children assessed longitudinally between the ages of 36 and 60 months of age. Children were administered a newly developed and validated battery of 6 executive function tasks tapping inhibitory…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Correlation, Executive Function
Early Childcare, Executive Functioning, and the Moderating Role of Early Stress Physiology
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Berry, Daniel; Willoughby, Michael T.; Blair, Clancy; Ursache, Alexandra; Granger, Douglas A. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Intervention studies indicate that children's childcare experiences can be leveraged to support the development of executive functioning (EF). The role of more normative childcare experiences is less clear. Increasingly, theory and empirical work suggest that individual differences in children's physiological stress systems may be associated with…
Descriptors: Child Care, Stress Variables, Executive Function, Physiology
Age-Related Increases in Motivation among Children with Mental Retardation and MA- and CA-Matched Controls.
Blair, Clancy; Greenberg, Mark; Crnic, Keith – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2001
Child positive affect and task orientation in response to cognitively demanding puzzle tasks were assessed at two time points separated by 12 months in children with mild mental retardation and mental age and chronological age matched controls (ages 1-5 years). Results suggested correlates of motivation were similar for children with mild mental…
Descriptors: Attention, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response