Executive function and psychosocial adjustment in healthy children and adolescents: A latent variable modelling investigation

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 292-317

  Cassidy, Adam R ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive function; Externalizing; Internalizing; Latent variable modelling; Shifting; Verbal fluency; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; BEHAVIOR RATING INVENTORY OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CHILDHOOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; SENSATION SEEKING; SKILL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROL; INDIVIDUALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84955210607     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: 17444136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2014.994484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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