title: [Formula: see text]Parent-report and performance-based measures of executive function assess different constructs.
abstract: A total of 405 children of 5-18 years of age were administered performance-based and parent-report measures of executive function (EF), and measures of motor, attention, reading, and mathematics performance. Attention, reading, and mathematics abilities were associated with a parent-report measure of EF. Reading and mathematics abilities were also associated with performance-based measures of EF, including the Animal Sorting, Inhibition, and Response Set subtests of the Developmental NEuroPSYchological Assessment-II. In contrast, motor functioning was only associated with performance-based measures of EF. Findings suggest that different constructs of EF are measured by parent-report versus performance-based measures, and that these different constructs of EF are associated with different neurodevelopmental processes.
authors.affiliation: a Behavioural Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics and the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute , The University of Calgary , Alberta , Canada.
authors.forename: Kayla D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Ten Eycke
authors.affiliation: a Behavioural Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics and the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute , The University of Calgary , Alberta , Canada.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dewey
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D007361:Intelligence Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D009048:Motor Skills; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010290:Parents; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011932:Reading; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis
keywords: Attention; Executive function; Mathematics; Motor skills; Reading