Relations Among Executive Function, Decoding, and Reading Comprehension: An Investigation of Sex Differences.

IF 2.1 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL

Discourse Processes Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-03-26 DOI:10.1080/0163853X.2020.1734416

Mercedes Spencer, Laurie E Cutting

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Abstract

In the current investigation, we used structural equation mediation modeling to examine the relations between executive function (indexed by measures of working memory, shifting, and inhibition), decoding ability, and reading comprehension in a sample of 298 6- to 8-year-old children (N =132 and 166 for boys and girls, respectively). Results for the full sample indicated that executive function was mediated by decoding ability. When sex was examined as a moderator of these associations, there was evidence for a trend suggesting that direct relations between executive function and reading comprehension were stronger for girls compared to boys; no significant differences were found for other direct and indirect relations. Taken together, these findings highlight the importance of executive function in supporting underlying integrative processes associated with reading comprehension and emphasize the need to further consider the role of executive function in relation to reading.

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执行功能、解码和阅读理解之间的关系：性别差异调查

在本次调查中，我们使用了结构方程中介模型，以 298 名 6 至 8 岁儿童为样本（男童和女童的样本数分别为 132 和 166），研究了执行功能（以工作记忆、移位和抑制测量为指标）、解码能力和阅读理解之间的关系。全部样本的结果表明，执行功能受解码能力的影响。当把性别作为这些关联的调节因素进行研究时，有证据表明，与男孩相比，女孩的执行功能与阅读理解能力之间的直接关系更强；在其他直接和间接关系方面，没有发现显著差异。综上所述，这些研究结果突出了执行功能在支持与阅读理解相关的基本综合过程中的重要性，并强调了进一步考虑执行功能在阅读中的作用的必要性。

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Discourse Processes Multiple-

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4.30

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4.50%

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期刊介绍： Discourse Processes is a multidisciplinary journal providing a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in discourse--prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, cross-cultural comparisons of communicative competence, or related topics. The problems posed by multisentence contexts and the methods required to investigate them, although not always unique to discourse, are sufficiently distinct so as to require an organized mode of scientific interaction made possible through the journal.