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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Child Psychology

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  • Executive functions (EF) are crucial cognitive processes impacting behavior.
  • Aggression in children is a significant concern with various manifestations.
  • Understanding the link between EF and aggression is vital for early intervention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between key executive functions and different types of aggression in 9-year-old children.
  • To determine which specific executive functions are most associated with distinct aggression subtypes.
  • To explore the specificity of these relationships in a general population sample.

Main Methods:

  • 148 nine-year-old children participated in the study.
  • Children completed a battery of executive function tasks assessing working memory, inhibition, and mental set-shifting.
  • Teachers rated children's aggression, categorizing it into overt, relational, reactive, and proactive types.

Main Results:

  • All executive function composites were significantly related to a composite measure of aggression.
  • Working memory demonstrated the most consistent association across all aggression types.
  • Inhibition and mental set-shifting showed specific links to relational and reactive aggression, respectively.

Conclusions:

  • Working memory plays a significant role in mediating various forms of aggression during middle childhood.
  • The relationship between executive functions and aggression is complex, with working memory being a key predictor.
  • Findings underscore the importance of targeting working memory deficits in interventions aimed at reducing aggressive behaviors in children.