Factors influencing the development of executive function in adolescents

LI Yong; YIN Xiaojian; WU Huipan; MA Yuanyuan; SHI Lijuan; WANG Jinxian; SHAN Ying; ZHANG Yingkun

doi:10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2024088

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LI Yong, YIN Xiaojian, WU Huipan, MA Yuanyuan, SHI Lijuan, WANG Jinxian, SHAN Ying, ZHANG Yingkun. Factors influencing the development of executive function in adolescents[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2024, 45(3): 437-442. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2024088

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LI Yong, YIN Xiaojian, WU Huipan, MA Yuanyuan, SHI Lijuan, WANG Jinxian, SHAN Ying, ZHANG Yingkun. Factors influencing the development of executive function in adolescents[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2024, 45(3): 437-442. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2024088

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LI Yong, YIN Xiaojian, WU Huipan, MA Yuanyuan, SHI Lijuan, WANG Jinxian, SHAN Ying, ZHANG Yingkun. Factors influencing the development of executive function in adolescents[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2024, 45(3): 437-442. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2024088

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Factors influencing the development of executive function in adolescents

doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2024088

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College of Sport and Art, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen(518118), Guangdong Province, China

Received Date: 2024-01-29
Rev Recd Date: 2024-03-05

Available Online: 2024-03-29

Publish Date: 2024-03-25

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Executive function is an advanced cognitive process aimed at the flexible coordination, optimization, and control of the cognitive processes of task solving in order to accomplish a specific task, ensuring that the individual produces effective behaviors, including inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. Given the sensitivities and specificities that characterize an individual's physical and mental development during adolescence, this period is critical for the development of executive function in adolescents. In the paper, the influencing factors of adolescents' executive function development are systematically described from three dimensions, namely, biology, environment and lifestyle; by analyzing the mechanisms and differences in the effects of different influencing factors, this editorial provides a scientific basis for adolescents' executive function improvement and intervention.
- Executive function,
- Biology,
- Environment,
- Life style,
- Adolescent

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