Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool.

ABSTRACT: Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is related to disparities in the development of both language and executive functioning (EF) skills. Emerging evidence suggests that language development may precede and provide necessary scaffolding for EF development in early childhood. The present preregistered study investigates how these skills co-develop longitudinally in early childhood and whether language development explains the relationship between SES and EF development. A socioeconomically diverse sample of 305 children completed repeated assessments of language (sentence comprehension) and EF (cognitive flexibility, behavioral inhibition, and cognitive inhibition) at four waves spaced 9 months apart from ages 3 to 5 years. Bivariate latent curve models with structured residuals were estima

SUBMITTER: Romeo RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9250946 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature