Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 3 · Licensed source edition
Longitudinal associations between executive function and positive parenting during early childhood and resilience, self-regulation, and behavioral problems in school-age children
Originally published 2025-03-08 · Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
BMC · DOI 10.1186/s13034-025-00875-8 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Independence
How does a child’s earlier ability to manage a task affect the help they need later?
This article examines how positive parenting and early executive function relate to later self-regulation. The independence lens asks which demands children can already manage and where practice or adult support still matters.
Who was studied?
Children in a longitudinal study with earlier measures from infancy and a later follow-up.
Age / stage: Early childhood to school age
Read with three questions
- What does the article establish about how positive parenting and early executive function relate to later self-regulation?
- Which measurements came first, and what changes between waves could also explain the pattern?
- How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is children in a longitudinal study with earlier measures from infancy and a later follow-up.
Keep the limits in view
Following families over time helps establish the order of measurements. Other changing experiences could still account for the associations.
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Lalin Rungsattatharm; Priyakorn Tasingha; Pon Trairatvorakul; Weerasak Chonchaiya (2025). Longitudinal associations between executive function and positive parenting during early childhood and resilience, self-regulation, and behavioral problems in school-age children Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-025-00875-8
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