What are the kids doing? Exploring young children's activities at home and relations with externally cued executive function and child temperament.

ABSTRACT: Young children spend a lot of time at home, yet there is little empirical research on how they spend that time and how it relates to developmental outcomes. Prior research suggests less-structured time-where children practice making choices and setting goals-may develop self-directed executive function in 6-year-olds. But less-structured time may be related to executive function for other reasons-for example, because it provides opportunities to acquire conceptual knowledge relevant to using executive function on tasks. We thus tested the possibility that less-structured time is also related to younger children's externally cued executive function. In this remote online study, caregivers of 93 3- to 5-year-olds indicated the amount of time their child was typically spending in various acti

SUBMITTER: Stucke NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9540249 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature