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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Behavioral Genetics
  • Neuroscience

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  • Executive functions (EFs) are crucial cognitive processes.
  • Internalizing and externalizing behaviors represent distinct psychopathology domains.
  • Understanding the interplay between EFs and behavior problems is vital for developmental trajectories.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between executive functions and internalizing/externalizing behaviors across development.
  • To determine if EFs predict the stability and change in behavior problems.
  • To explore the association between EFs and a general psychopathology factor.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a twin study design with 885 participants aged 7–16 years.
  • Assessed three latent executive function variables (common EF, updating, shifting) using laboratory tasks at age 17.
  • Analyzed teacher- and parent-reported internalizing and externalizing behaviors over 9 years.

Main Results:

  • Common executive functions were negatively associated with stable internalizing and externalizing behaviors in males, explaining 32% of their covariance.
  • Common EF was associated with the general psychopathology factor in males.
  • Shifting-specific EF positively predicted the slope of externalizing behaviors across sexes.
  • EFs did not explain covariation in parent-reported behaviors.

Conclusions:

  • Executive functions are associated with stable behavioral problem variation and may act as a gender-dependent risk factor.
  • EFs explain a small but significant proportion of behavioral covariance.
  • Findings highlight the role of specific EFs in developmental changes in externalizing behaviors.