AUTHOR=Devine Rory T. , Bignardi Giacomo , Hughes Claire TITLE=Executive Function Mediates the Relations between Parental Behaviors and Children's Early Academic Ability JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2016 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01902 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01902 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
The past decade has witnessed a growth of interest in parental influences on individual differences in children's executive function (EF) on the one hand and in the academic consequences of variation in children's EF on the other hand. The primary aim of this longitudinal study was to examine whether children's EF mediated the relation between three distinct aspects of parental behavior (i.e., parental scaffolding, negative parent-child interactions, and the provision of informal learning opportunities) and children's academic ability (as measured by standard tests of literacy and numeracy skills). Data were collected from 117 parent-child dyads (60 boys) at two time points ~1 year apart (M Age at Time 1 = 3.94 years,