Assessing Hot and Cool Executive Functions in Preschoolers: Affective Flexibility Predicts Emotion Regulation

Autor/inn/en	Martins, Eva Costa; Marcu?, Oana; Leal, Juliana; Visu-Petra, Laura
Titel	Assessing Hot and Cool Executive Functions in Preschoolers: Affective Flexibility Predicts Emotion Regulation
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 190 (2020) 11, S.1667-1681 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Martins, Eva Costa) ORCID (Visu-Petra, Laura)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2018.1545765
Schlagwörter	Executive Function; Preschool Children; Emotional Response; Predictor Variables; Construct Validity; Age Differences; Educational Attainment; Parent Background; Short Term Memory; Inhibition; Self Control; Foreign Countries; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Emotionales Verhalten; Prädiktor; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Elternhaus; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Hemmung; Selbstbeherrschung; Ausland
Abstract	Affective flexibility (AF) is the ability to alternate between processing emotional and non-emotional information. This hot executive function has been understudied during early development. The first aim of our investigation was to generate preliminary construct validity evidence for a new measure of AF: the Emotional Flexible Item Selection Task (EM-FIST). Second, to investigate if AF represented a better predictor of preschoolers' emotion regulation (ER) compared to, cognitive flexibility (CF). Preschoolers (N = 56; 48.2% girls) completed AF and CF measures (also working memory and inhibitory control). ER was measured through maternal report. We found evidence of EM-FIST's validity, as an appropriate measure of AF for preschoolers, by showing that it is related to cool executive functions' measures and to children's ER. Both AF and maternal level of education predicted children's ER while CF did not. Our investigation highlights a stronger relation between ER and AF in preschoolers than with CF. (As Provided).
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