Associations between middle childhood executive control aspects and adolescent substance use and externalizing and internalizing problems

Author:

Mason W. Alex1ORCID,Fleming Charles B.2,Patwardhan Irina3,Guo Ying4,James Tiffany D.5,Nelson Jennifer Mize6,Espy Kimberly Andrews7,Nelson Timothy D.8

Affiliation:

1. Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln Nebraska USA

2. Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors University of Washington Seattle Washington USA

3. Child and Family Translational Research Center Boys Town Boys Town Nebraska USA

4. Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health University of Nevada‐Las Vegas Las Vegas Nevada USA

5. Office of Research and Economic Development University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln Nebraska USA

6. Office of Research and Economic Development, 301 Canfield Administration and Department of Psychology University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln Nebraska USA

7. Office of the President Wayne State University Detroit Michigan USA

8. Department of Psychology University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln Nebraska USA

Abstract

AbstractThis study examines the degree to which two middle childhood executive control aspects, working memory and combined inhibitory control/flexible shifting, predict adolescent substance use and externalizing and internalizing problems. Participants were 301 children (ages 3–6 years; 48.2% male) recruited from a Midwestern city in the United States and followed into adolescence (ages 14–18 years). Working memory had a statistically significant unadjusted association with externalizing problems (r = −.30, p = .003) in a confirmatory factor analysis. Neither factor significantly predicted any of the adolescent outcomes in a structural equation model that adjusted for each EC aspect, sociodemographic covariates, and middle childhood externalizing and internalizing problems. Stronger prediction of EC aspects might not emerge until they become more fully differentiated later in development.

Funder

National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Institute of Mental Health

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Publisher

Wiley

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