Granvald Viktor, Marciszko Carin
a Uppsala Child and Baby Lab, Department of Psychology , Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden.
Child Neuropsychol. 2016;22(5):537-55. doi: 10.1080/09297049.2015.1018152. Epub 2015 Apr 2.
The present study examined relationships between three key executive functions (working memory, inhibition, and mental set-shifting) and multiple types of aggression in a general population sample of 9-year-old children. One hundred and forty-eight children completed a battery of executive function tasks and were rated on aggression by their primary teachers. All executive function (EF) composites were related to a composite measure of aggression. Working memory (WM) was most consistently related to the different types of aggression (overt, relational, reactive, and proactive), whereas inhibition and mental set-shifting only were related to relational and reactive aggression, respectively. Specificity in relations (studied as independent contributions) was generally low with the exception of the relation between WM and relational aggression. Taken together, our results highlight the roles of WM and relational aggression in EF-aggression relations in middle childhood.
本研究调查了9岁儿童普通人群样本中三种关键执行功能（工作记忆、抑制和心理定势转换）与多种攻击类型之间的关系。148名儿童完成了一系列执行功能任务，并由他们的小学教师对其攻击性进行评分。所有执行功能（EF）综合指标均与攻击性综合测量指标相关。工作记忆（WM）与不同类型的攻击（公开攻击、关系攻击、反应性攻击和主动性攻击）最一致相关，而抑制和心理定势转换分别仅与关系攻击和反应性攻击相关。除了WM与关系攻击之间的关系外，关系特异性（作为独立贡献进行研究）通常较低。综上所述，我们的研究结果突出了WM和关系攻击在童年中期EF-攻击关系中的作用。
