Associations between executive functioning, challenging behavior, and quality of life in children and adolescents with and without neurodevelopmental conditions.

ABSTRACT: The present study sought to clarify the impact of executive and social functioning on challenging behavior and the downstream influence of challenging behavior on quality of life and functioning in a large transdiagnostic sample. Understanding these relationships is crucial for developing and designing tailored intervention strategies. In a cross-sectional study, parent informants of 2,004 children completed measures of executive and social functioning, challenging behavior, child and family quality of life, and reported on functional impacts of challenging behavior. Using structural (path) modeling, analyses evaluated the associations between executive and social functioning, including emotion regulation and risk avoidance, with overall and specific types of challenging behavior. Structur

SUBMITTER: Frazier TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9632446 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature