Parenting Influences on Executive Function in Early Childhood: A Review

By Tracey Fay-Stammbach, D. Hawes, P. Meredith. 2014

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Developmental processes critical to the emergence of executive function (EF) play out across early childhood—a period of rapid change and neural plasticity. The emergence of self-regulatory capacities is highly embedded in the many contexts or ecologies nested within a child's broader environment, among which the parent–child relationship assumes primary importance. However, only recently have early childhood researchers begun to investigate the contributions of parenting variables to EF. In this article, we review this emerging evidence as it pertains to (a) the parenting behaviors associated with EF, (b) the risk and protective factors that moderate these associations, and (c) the mechanisms through which parenting apparently operates on emerging EF. We also discuss directions for research on transactional parent–child dynamics, experimental tests of causation, and differential susceptibility to environmental influences.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Differences in Perceived Parenting Style Between Mothers and Fathers: Implications for Child Outcomes and Marital Conflict (2016, background): “Also, parenting style interacts with child temperament and personality, with certain types of parenting leading to better outcomes for children depending on the temperament/type of child (Fay-Stammbach et al. 2014).”
• Linking caregiving quality during infancy to brain activity in early childhood and later executive function (2024, background): “Caregiver factors such as scaffolding, stimulation, and sensitivity have demonstrated significant associations with child EF, especially during the highly-dependent early childhood years (Fay-Stammbach et al., 2014;Lucassenetal.,2015).”
• Oscillatory entrainment to our early social or physical environment and the emergence of volitional control (2022, background): “(These other papers have addressed the first question (Fay-Stammbach et al., 2014; Mason, 2018; Vernon-Feagans et al., 2016)).”