The assessment of effortful control in childhood: Questionnaires and the Test of Everyday Attention for Children compared

Verstraeten, Katrien; Vasey, Michael W.; Claes, Laurence; Bijttebier, Patricia

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2009.08.016

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“…The sum of score is the total effortful control score. Verstraeten, Vasey, Claes and Bijttebier (2010) supported the construct validity of ECS and found it more appropriate for use in broader age ranges.…”

Section: Effortful Control Scale (Ecs)supporting

confidence: 53%

“…Moreover, the study also focused on investigating the relationship between moderate variable i.e., effortful control -a capacity for self-regulation that emerges in children's development, including the ability to inhibit behavior effortfully (inhibitory control), to activate behavior when needed (activation control), and to voluntarily focus or shift attention (attentional control) (Verstraeten, Vasey, Claes & Bijttebier, 2010) and mathematics anxiety. For mathematics knowledge and letter knowledge, self-regulation measured both in preschool and in kindergarten accounted for significant variation (Blair & Razza, 2007).…”

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Alleviating Mathematics Anxiety of Elementary School Students: A Situated Perspective

Sharma¹

2016

IJRES

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The present study investigates the effects of the situated learning and effortful control on mathematics anxiety of school students. Participants were 99 seventh graders who studied in two schools. Students in one of these were given instruction through the situated learning model, and the students of other school were treated as a control group. Existing instruments, namely, Mathematics Anxiety Scale by Sharma and Sansanwal (2011) and Effortful Control Scale by Lonigan and Phillips (2001) were used to measure mathematics anxiety and effortful control. Data were analyzed by using 2 × 2 factorial design analysis of covariance. Results indicated that after the experiment students who were exposed to the situated learning model had significantly less mathematics anxiety than their counterparts who were in the control group with effect size .35. The implications of the study are discussed.

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Section: Effortful Control Scale (Ecs)supporting

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Alleviating Mathematics Anxiety of Elementary School Students: A Situated Perspective

Sharma¹

2016

IJRES

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“…This difference was noted only by parents, suggesting they may be better able to judge children's effortful control than children themselves, although, interestingly, parent and child reports of effortful control were significantly correlated, suggesting some agreement between reporters. Verstraeten, Vasey, Claes, and Bijttebier (2010) found that parent report of effortful control was more stable across time and more consistently correlated with indicators of psychopathology than child report. Interestingly, in their sample, parent report of effortful control on the EATQ-R and self-report on the Persistence/Low Distractibility subscale of the ECS had a correlation coefficient of .50, whereas in our combined sample of brain tumor survivors and comparison peers the correlation coefficient was .28.…”

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Temperament and Social Behavior in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors and Comparison Peers

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Journal of Pediatric Psychology

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Objective To examine the role of temperament (i.e., surgency/positive affect, negative affect, and effortful control) in the social behavior of pediatric brain tumor survivors and comparison classmates. Methods Parent-, peer-, and self-report data were collected for 75 children after treatment for a brain tumor, and 67 comparison classmates. Tests of mediation and moderated mediation were run to examine whether effortful control accounted for group differences in social behavior and whether this indirect effect was moderated by surgency/ positive or negative affectivity. Results Peers described survivors as lower in Leadership-popularity and higher in Sensitivity-isolation and victimization than comparison classmates. Parent and self-report of surgency/ positive affect revealed survivors were lower on this dimension. Survivors were rated by parents as demonstrating less effortful control. Effortful control did not consistently account for group differences in social behavior. There was limited evidence of moderated mediation. Conclusions Research on the implications of potential changes in temperament following treatment is warranted.

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“…The ECS shows acceptable psychometric properties (e.g., Verstraeten, Vasey, Claes, & Bijttebier, 2010).…”

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“…It yields a total score (α = .81) and two subscale scores, namely Attention Focusing (9 items; e.g., "My concentration is good even if there is music in the room around me"; α = .70) and Attention Shifting ( 11 13 items; e.g., "I can quickly switch from one task to another"; α = .69). The ACS shows acceptable psychometric properties (e.g., Verstraeten et al, 2010).…”

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Attentional Networks in Boys With ADHD or Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Relationship With Effortful Control

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Objective: The present study investigated differences in attentional networks in typically developing (TD) boys and boys with ADHD or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In addition, we investigated the relationship between networks and the relationship with effortful control (EC). Method: An Attention Network Test was used to assess alerting, orienting, and executive attention in 25 TD boys, 25 boys with ADHD, and 25 boys with ASD. Results: In the absence of warning signals, boys with ADHD performed poorer than other children. In all groups, the orienting and executive control networks and the alerting and orienting networks interacted. Executive attention and EC were unrelated. Conclusion: Results provided evidence of impaired tonic alertness in ADHD and support the idea of functional integration of attentional networks. Finally, findings suggest that the link between EC reports and indices of neural systems involved in the effortful regulation of behavior may not be as unambiguous as previously thought.

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The assessment of effortful control in childhood: Questionnaires and the Test of Everyday Attention for Children compared

Cited by 52 publications

References 19 publications

Alleviating Mathematics Anxiety of Elementary School Students: A Situated Perspective

Alleviating Mathematics Anxiety of Elementary School Students: A Situated Perspective

Temperament and Social Behavior in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors and Comparison Peers

Attentional Networks in Boys With ADHD or Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Relationship With Effortful Control

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