Executief functioneren bij 4- tot 7-jarigen: De invloed van het opleidingsniveau en het executief functioneren van ouders op het executief functioneren van hun kind.

Executive functions are important skills, which are needed to achieve academic and social success in life. Both neurological and environmental factors are influencing the development of executive functions. This study focused on one of the environmental factors: the level of education of the parents. We expected that the executive functions of children are better developed when parents have a higher level of education. We also expected to find a difference between parents with a high level of education and parents with a low level of education in how accurate they are in estimating the level of development of the executive functions of their children. The level of executive functioning of 403 children of 32 different schools in the Netherlands was measured with the following computer tasks: GoNoGo (Inhibition), Spatial Temporal Span (Working memory) and ZOO (Planning). The parents of these children were given questionnaires; the DEX-K (executive functions of the children) and DEX ...Show moreExecutive functions are important skills, which are needed to achieve academic and social success in life. Both neurological and environmental factors are influencing the development of executive functions. This study focused on one of the environmental factors: the level of education of the parents. We expected that the executive functions of children are better developed when parents have a higher level of education. We also expected to find a difference between parents with a high level of education and parents with a low level of education in how accurate they are in estimating the level of development of the executive functions of their children. The level of executive functioning of 403 children of 32 different schools in the Netherlands was measured with the following computer tasks: GoNoGo (Inhibition), Spatial Temporal Span (Working memory) and ZOO (Planning). The parents of these children were given questionnaires; the DEX-K (executive functions of the children) and DEX (executive functions of the parents). To answer the research questions ANOVAs, a multiple regression analyses and linear regression analyses were used. No relationship was found between the development of the executive functions of the children and the level of education of the parents. Also, the level of education was not related to the development of executive functions of the parents themselves. This in contradiction to the results found in previous studies. However, we found that parents with a higher educational level could estimate the level of working memory of their child more accurately than parents with a lower level of education. In conclusion, the educational level of the parents was not related to the level of the executive functions of their children.Show less

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Executief functioneren bij 4- tot 7-jarigen: De invloed van het opleidingsniveau en het executief functioneren van ouders op het executief functioneren van hun kind.