Poverty's Impact on Children's Executive Functions: Global Considerations
| Autor: | Haft, SL, Hoeft, F |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Pediatric
Parenting 1.2 Psychological and socioeconomic processes Prevention Brain No Poverty Stress Social Environment Basic Behavioral and Social Science Executive Function Child Development Clinical Research Underpinning research Behavioral and Social Science Humans Psychological Psychology Mental health Child Poverty Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | New directions for child and adolescent development, vol 2017, iss 158 Haft, SL; & Hoeft, F. (2017). Poverty's Impact on Children's Executive Functions: Global Considerations.. New directions for child and adolescent development, 2017(158), 69-79. doi: 10.1002/cad.20220. UCSF: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4bp6b6z0 |
| Popis: | Poverty detrimentally affects child executive function (EF), a subset of cognitive abilities implicated in reading and other achievement outcomes. Consequently, research has focused on understanding explanatory and mediating mechanisms in this association. This research, however, has mainly involved populations from Western, high-income countries. Children from low- and middle-income countries comprise a significant proportion of the world's population and are at additional risk for poor EF as a result of a more disadvantaged context. The present review examines global work on poverty and EF to highlight important cross-national similarities and differences. Findings suggest a global association between poverty and EF and point to cognitive stimulation and environmental enrichment as common mediating variables that may also be moderators and targets for intervention. However, findings also underscore the need to consider the sociocultural context of countries when examining impacts of parenting, schooling, and other metrics. Research and intervention implications are discussed. |
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