Self-Reported Sleep and Executive Function in Early Primary School Children

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Chen, Yulu
Wang, Yiji
Wang, Si
Zhang, Ming
Wu, Nan
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2021
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The study investigated the associations between children’s self-reported habitual sleep disturbance and multidimensional executive function (EF). Two hundred and four 7–9-year-old typically developing children completed the Sleep Self-Report and finished the Red-Blue Test, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, and Backward Digit Span Test, indexing different EF components including inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, and working memory. Results revealed that all the three EF components were significantly correlated with sleep. However, cognitive flexibility was no longer significantly related to sleep when the other EF components – inhibitory control and working memory – were controlled for. Meanwhile, inhibitory control, as well as working memory, was still significantly related to sleep after controlling for the other EF components. Results suggest that children’s self-reported sleep might be associated directly with inhibitory control and working memory, but indirectly with cognitive flexibility.

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Frontiers in Psychology

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12

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© 2021 Chen, Wang, Wang, Zhang and Wu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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Psychology

Cognitive neuroscience

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Psychology, Multidisciplinary

executive function

inhibitory control

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Chen, Y; Wang, Y; Wang, S; Zhang, M; Wu, N, Self-Reported Sleep and Executive Function in Early Primary School Children, Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, 12

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