Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK.
Br J Educ Psychol. 2018 Jun;88(2):216-235. doi: 10.1111/bjep.12221. Epub 2018 Apr 14.
Research on the relationships between parental factors and children's executive function (EF) has been conducted mainly in Western cultures.
This study provides the first empirical test, in a non-Western context, of how maternal EF and parenting behaviours relate to child EF.
South Korean mothers and their preschool children (N = 95 dyads) completed EF tasks.
Two aspects of parental scaffolding were observed during a puzzle task: contingency (i.e., adjusting among levels of scaffolding according to the child's ongoing evidence of understanding) and intrusiveness (i.e., directive, mother-centred interactions).
Maternal EF and maternal contingency each accounted for unique variance in child EF, above and beyond child age, child language and maternal education. Maternal intrusiveness, however, was not significantly related to child EF. Additionally, no mediating role of parenting was found in the maternal and child EF link. However, child language was found to partially mediate the link between maternal contingency and child EF. These results complement prior findings by revealing distinctive patterns in the link between maternal EF, parenting behaviours, and child EF in the Korean context.
关于父母因素与儿童执行功能（EF）之间关系的研究主要在西方文化中进行。
本研究在非西方背景下首次对母亲的 EF 和教养行为如何与儿童的 EF 相关进行实证检验。
韩国母亲及其学龄前儿童（N=95 对）完成了 EF 任务。
在拼图任务中观察了父母支架的两个方面：情境性（即根据儿童正在进行的理解证据调整支架的水平）和侵入性（即指令性、以母亲为中心的互动）。
母亲的 EF 和母亲的情境性都解释了儿童 EF 的独特差异，超出了儿童年龄、儿童语言和母亲教育的影响。然而，母亲的侵入性与儿童的 EF 没有显著关系。此外，在母亲和儿童 EF 联系中没有发现教养的中介作用。然而，儿童语言发现部分中介了母亲的情境性和儿童 EF 之间的联系。这些结果补充了先前的发现，揭示了在韩国背景下母亲 EF、教养行为和儿童 EF 之间联系的独特模式。
