FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE: FAMILY-OF-ORIGIN'S INFLUENCE ON COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
CHUA XIN TING HAZEL
CHUA XIN TING HAZEL
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The family-of-origin?s impact on a person?s cognitive and behavioural outcomes
is said to be tremendous, yet few studies have examined the family unit as a collective
whole. Additionally, few have clarified the role of poor family functioning on executive
dysfunction in young adulthood, with prior studies largely focused on childhood. Thus,
the present study examined the comparative influences of child and adult family-oforigin
functioning on adult executive function, and analysed their differential impacts
on cognitive and behavioural executive function. This study also explored psychological
variables as possible mediators of the pathway between family dysfunction and
executive dysfunction. Results indicated that poor family functioning influenced
behavioural but not cognitive executive functioning, and highlighted the relatively
stronger influence of adult family functioning on behavioural executive function. Mood
was revealed as a major mediator of family functioning?s impacts on behavioural
executive function, although other psychological variables also partially mediated this
relationship. The findings illuminate the crucial influences of current family-of-origin
functioning and mood in contributing to executive dysfunction, and calls for further
work to investigate family functioning in greater detail. Theoretical and clinical
implications of this relationship are further discussed.
Keywords
family-of-origin functioning, executive function, adult family
functioning, childhood family functioning
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2021-04-09
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