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Executive Functions in Middle Childhood
- This doctoral dissertation aims at elucidating the development of hot and cool executive functions in middle childhood and at gaining insight about their role in childhood overweight. The dissertation is based on three empirical studies which have been published in peer-reviewed journals. Data from a large 3-year longitudinal study (the “PIER-study”) was used. The findings presented in the dissertation demonstrated that both hot and cool EF abilities increase during middle childhood. They also supported the notion that hot and cool EF facets are distinguishable from each other in middle childhood, that they have distinct developmental trajectories, and different predictors. Evidence was found for associations of hot and cool EF with body weight in middle childhood, which is in line with the notion that they might play a role in the self-regulation of eating and the multifactorial etiology of childhood overweight.
Author details: | Johanna Nele LensingORCiDGND |
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Subtitle (English): | Developmental Trajectories and Associations with Body Weight |
Reviewer(s): | Birgit ElsnerORCiDGND, Annette Klein |
Supervisor(s): | Birgit Elsner, Petra Warschburger |
Publication type: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2018 |
Publication year: | 2018 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Granting institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Date of final exam: | 2019/01/30 |
Release date: | 2019/07/10 |
Tag: | executive function; middle childhood; overweight; self-regulation |
Number of pages: | 159 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |