Abstract
Introduction: Executive functions (EF), encompassing inhibition, updating, and shifting, are widely acknowledged as cognitive factors that promote resilience. However, prior research examining the association between EF and resilience has been hampered by inconsistent conceptualizations of resilience and an overreliance on cross-sectional designs. We embraced a process-oriented conceptualization of resilience and employed a longitudinal approach to investigate how EF components interplay with the dynamic processes of resilience resources and resilient functioning.
Methods: A total of 144 Chinese preadolescents (aged 10–12, 53.5% male) completed computer-based EF assessments at baseline and self-reported their resilience at three intervals during 2019–2020. The resilience evaluations encompassed resilience resources at individual, familial, and social levels, as measured by the Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescents, and resilient functioning, operationalized as the residuals of socioemotional difficulties after accounting for stressful life events.
Results: The findings emphasized the dynamic nature of resilience, unveiling a developmental cascade from resilience resources to resilient functioning and back to resilience resources. Furthermore, distinct effects of EF components on resilience development were found. Specifically, inhibition was associated with both concurrent and long-term resilience resources and functioning, while updating predicted long-term resilience resources, and shifting predicted long-term resilient functioning.
Conclusion: These results underscored the pivotal role of EF as a cognitive foundation in comprehending the dynamic resilience processes during preadolescence.
© 2024 Foundation for Professionals in Services to Adolescents.
Methods: A total of 144 Chinese preadolescents (aged 10–12, 53.5% male) completed computer-based EF assessments at baseline and self-reported their resilience at three intervals during 2019–2020. The resilience evaluations encompassed resilience resources at individual, familial, and social levels, as measured by the Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescents, and resilient functioning, operationalized as the residuals of socioemotional difficulties after accounting for stressful life events.
Results: The findings emphasized the dynamic nature of resilience, unveiling a developmental cascade from resilience resources to resilient functioning and back to resilience resources. Furthermore, distinct effects of EF components on resilience development were found. Specifically, inhibition was associated with both concurrent and long-term resilience resources and functioning, while updating predicted long-term resilience resources, and shifting predicted long-term resilient functioning.
Conclusion: These results underscored the pivotal role of EF as a cognitive foundation in comprehending the dynamic resilience processes during preadolescence.
© 2024 Foundation for Professionals in Services to Adolescents.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1929-1941 |
| Journal | Journal of Adolescence |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| Online published | 25 Aug 2024 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2024 |
Research Keywords
- executive functions
- longitudinal
- preadolescents
- process
- resilience
Publisher's Copyright Statement
- COPYRIGHT TERMS OF DEPOSITED POSTPRINT FILE: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Zhou, Y., Yu, N. X., Liang, Z., Feng, S., & Zhang, Q. (2024). Preadolescents' executive functions and resilience development: A cascade model of resilience resources and resilient functioning. Journal of Adolescence, 96(8), 1929-1941, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12392.
- This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics of 'Preadolescents' executive functions and resilience development: A cascade model of resilience resources and resilient functioning'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Cite this
- APA
- Author
- BIBTEX
- Harvard
- Standard
- RIS
- Vancouver