Attentional and executive function behaviours in children with poor working memory
Attentional and executive function behaviours in children with poor working memory
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DOI：
10.1016/j.lindif.2007.10.003
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Hilton, Kerry A.
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作者：
Gathercole, Susan E.;Alloway, Tracy P.;Hilton, Kerry A.
本研究的目的是在工作记忆非常差的儿童中探索与注意力和执行功能有关的课堂行为的特征，并检验疏忽行为和工作记忆问题共存的假设。教师对5/6岁和9/10岁工作记忆得分较低的52名儿童的问题行为进行了教师评分，评估了注意力和执行功能行为。工作记忆得分低的大多数儿童获得了认知问题/注意力不集中症状的非典型高评级，并被判断为注意力持续时间短，注意力高度分散，在监控工作质量方面存在问题，以及难以产生新的问题解决方案。这些结果扩展了之前的发现，即工作记忆问题和注意力不集中的行为在非临床样本中同时发生。研究表明，工作记忆容量的降低可能在这些儿童的问题行为中起到因果作用。(C)2007 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
The purpose of this study was to explore the profiles of classroom behaviour relating to attention and executive functions in children with very poor working memory, and to test the hypothesis that inattentive behaviour and working memory problerns co-occur. Teachers rated problem behaviours of 52 children with low working memory scores aged 5/6 and 9/10 years on teacher rating measures of attention and executive function behaviours. The majority of children with low working memory scores obtained atypically high ratings of cognitive problems/ inattentive symptoms, and were judged to have short attention spans, high levels of distractibility, problerns in monitoring the quality of their work, and difficulties in generating new solutions to problems. These results extend previous findings that working memory problems and inattentive behaviour co-occur to a non-clinical sample. It is suggested that reduced working memory capacity may play a causal role in the problem behaviours of these children. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.