Emotion knowledge, social behaviour and locomotor activity predict the mathematic performance in 706 preschool children.

ABSTRACT: What are the foundational abilities that young children must develop at the beginning of school for their future academic success? Little is known about how emotion knowledge, social behaviour, and locomotor activity are associated and how these abilities may be predictors of academic-mathematic performance (less correlated with the children's SES than pre-reading and linguistic achievement) in a large cohort of preschool children. Here we show that emotion knowledge, locomotor activity, social behaviour, and academic-mathematic performance are interrelated in 706 French preschool children aged 3 to 6. Mediation analyses reveal that the increase in academic-mathematic performance is explained by the increases in emotion knowledge and social behaviour and, in turn, children with a greater c

SUBMITTER: Cavadini T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8277886 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature