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Individual Differences in Executive Attention Predict Self‐Regulation and Adolescent Psychosocial Behaviors
Author(s) -
ELLIS LESA K.,
ROTHBART MARY K.,
POSNER MICHAEL I.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1308.041
Subject(s) - psychology , temperament , executive functions , psychosocial , developmental psychology , deviance (statistics) , ethnically diverse , self control , clinical psychology , personality , cognition , social psychology , ethnic group , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics , sociology , anthropology
A bstract : This study examined temperament, executive attention, parental monitoring and relationships, and involvement in pro‐ and antisocial behaviors in an ethnically diverse sample of adolescents. We sought to relate parent‐ and self‐reported effortful control to performance on measures of executive attention and to better understand the relative contributions of individual‐difference variables and environmental variables in predicting behaviors in adolescence. The results indicated a relationship between poor executive attention and mother‐reported effortful control. Inclusion of individual‐difference variables significantly increased prediction of problem‐behavior scores, suggesting the importance of including such variables in studies of adolescent deviance.