“I Know How You Feel”: Preschoolers’ emotion knowledge contributes to early school success

Socioeconomic risk status and emotion knowledge were negatively related. Furthermore, executive control was found to contribute to variance in emotion knowledge. Even with age, gender, socioeconomic risk status, and executive control covaried, emotion knowledge contributed to variance in social competence. Given these covariates, it contributed only indirectly to classroom adjustment, via its contribution to social competence. Implications are discussed for practice and policy attention to emotion knowledge within social–emotional curricula and assessment, targeting the period between ages 3 and 4 years, as well as children living in poverty.

Date: 2017

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269785382_I_Know_How_You_Feel_Preschoolers’_emotion_knowledge_contributes_to_early_school_success

AND: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1476718X13497354

 

A systematic review of cognitive functioning among young people who have experienced homelessness, foster care, or poverty

 

A total of 31 studies were included. Compared to non-disadvantaged youth or published norms, cognitive performance was generally found to be impaired in young people who had experienced homelessness, foster care, or poverty. A common area of difficulty across all groups is working memory. General cognitive functioning, attention, and executive function deficits are shared by the homeless and poverty groups. Creativity emerges as a potential strength for homeless young people.

Date: 2016

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27584083

AND: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307577183_A_systematic_review_of_cognitive_functioning_among_young_people_who_have_experienced_homelessness_foster_care_or_poverty

AND: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09297049.2016.1207758

 

 

Early Parenting and the Development of Externalizing Behavior Problems: Longitudinal Mediation Through Children’s Executive Function

Path analysis was used to investigate the longitudinal associations among parenting and children’s executive function and externalizing behavior problems from 36 to 90 months of age in the Family Life Project (= 1,115), a study of child development in the context of rural poverty. While controlling for stability in the constructs, semistructured observations of parenting prospectively predicted performance on a battery of executive function tasks and primary caregivers’ reports of externalizing behavior. Furthermore, the association between early parenting and later externalizing behavior was longitudinally mediated by executive function, providing support for a process model in which sensitive parenting promotes children’s self‐regulation, which in turn reduces children’s externalizing behavior.

Date: 2015

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26082032

AND: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278793507_Early_Parenting_and_the_Development_of_Externalizing_Behavior_Problems_Longitudinal_Mediation_Through_Children’s_Executive_Function

AND: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdev.12386