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Gathercole, Susan E., Alloway, Tracy P., Kirkwood, Hannah J., Elliott, Julian G., Holmes, Joni 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6821-2793 and Hilton, Kerry A.
(2008)
Attentional and executive function behaviours in children with poor working memory.
Learning and Individual Differences, 18 (2).
pp. 214-223.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore the profiles of classroom behaviour relating to attention and executive functions in children with very poor working memory, and to test the hypothesis that inattentive behaviour and working memory problems co-occur. Teachers rated problem behaviours of 52 children with low working memory scores aged 5/6 and 9/10 years on teacher rating measures of attention and executive function behaviours. The majority of children with low working memory scores obtained atypically high ratings of cognitive problems/ inattentive symptoms, and were judged to have short attention spans, high levels of distractibility, problems in monitoring the quality of their work, and difficulties in generating new solutions to problems. These results extend previous findings that working memory problems and inattentive behaviour co-occur to a non-clinical sample. It is suggested that reduced working memory capacity may play a causal role in the problem behaviours of these children.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2021 03:30 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 15:55 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81818 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.10.003 |
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