Risk and Protective Factors for Executive Function in Vulnerable South African Preschool-Age Children.

ABSTRACT: Executive function (EF) theory and research continues to under-represent the contexts in which the majority of the world's children reside, despite their potential to support, refute, or refine our current understandings. The current study sought to contribute to our understanding of EF in low-income settings in South Africa by investigating longitudinal associations of context-specific risk and protective factors for EF development in three- to five-year-old children who had limited access to ECCE services before the age of five. Child-caregiver dyads (N = 171) participated in two rounds of data collection (approximately seven months apart) during which child EF was assessed using the Early Years Toolbox; context-specific risk and protective factors were assessed through a caregiver quest

SUBMITTER: Cook CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11259110 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature