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Links between child executive function and adjustment: A three-site study

Chen, Laure Lu, Heng, Jean Anne, Xu, Chengyi, Ellefson, Michelle R., Edwards, Miryam, D'Souza, Hana, Fink, Elian, Jess, Mikeda, Gray, Louise, Dempsey, Caoimhe, Mehrotra, Mishika, Wong, Siu Ching, Wu, Catherine, Huang, Brittany, Zheng, Jiayin, Wu, Zhen, Devine, Rory T. and Hughes, Claire 2025. Links between child executive function and adjustment: A three-site study. Child Development 10.1111/cdev.14264

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Abstract

Cross-site comparisons indicate that East Asian children typically excel on tests of executive function (EF), but interpreting this contrast is made difficult by both the heavy reliance on testing in school settings and by the scarcity of studies that assess across-site measurement invariance. Addressing these gaps, our study included remote home-based assessments of EF for 1002 children (Mage = 5.19 years, SD = 0.51; 49% male) from England, Hong Kong, and mainland China, as well as parental ratings of externalizing and internalizing adjustment problems (data collected between June 2021 and December 2022). The models established partial scalar invariance but did not show clear site differences. Supporting the universal importance of EF for behavioral self-regulation, EF task performance and parent-rated externalizing problems showed similar inverse associations across sites.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Published Online
Status: In Press
Schools: Schools > Psychology
Publisher: Wiley
ISSN: 0009-3920
Funders: Economic and Social Research Council
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 6 June 2025
Date of Acceptance: 14 May 2025
Last Modified: 19 Jun 2025 09:35
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178847

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