Parent-report and performance-based measures of executive function assess different constructs

2015/07/28 by Kayla D. Ten Eycke, Deborah Dewey · 1 citation
Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · #Children's Physical and Motor Development #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills #Infant Development and Preterm Care

paper · doi:10.1080/09297049.2015.1065961

openalex publication_date 2015/07/28 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

A total of 405 children of 5-18 years of age were administered performance-based and parent-report measures of executive function (EF), and measures of motor, attention, reading, and mathematics performance. Attention, reading, and mathematics abilities were associated with a parent-report measure of EF. Reading and mathematics abilities were also associated with performance-based measures of EF, including the Animal Sorting, Inhibition, and Response Set subtests of the Developmental NEuroPSYchological Assessment-II. In contrast, motor functioning was only associated with performance-based measures of EF. Findings suggest that different constructs of EF are measured by parent-report versus performance-based measures, and that these different constructs of EF are associated with different neurodevelopmental processes.

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