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dc.contributor.advisorTobin, Renée Margaret
dc.creatorMager Garfield, Emma
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-12T19:34:14Z
dc.date.available2024-09-12T19:34:14Z
dc.date.issued2024-08
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/10712
dc.description.abstractThis study used extant data to examine the role of executive functioning (EF) and intervention dosage in predicting student behavioral outcomes throughout a social-emotional intervention. Data were collected in 19 kindergarten classrooms in Midwest public schools during the 2010-2011 academic year. The sample included 260 students with approximately 49% (n = 126) identified by parents as female and approximately 52% (n = 134) identified by parents as male. Factor analyses and correlational analyses were conducted with all observed behaviors and with all rating scale and task-based EF measures to detect underlying constructs for analysis. However, neither the behaviors nor the rating scale EF measures demonstrated adequately sized correlations to justify combining them into composite variables. Therefore, rating scale EF measures were entered independently into analyses for individual behavioral outcomes. Generalized additive models (GAM) were used to determine the significance of increased exposure to the intervention and various rating scale and task-based measures of EF for prosocial (i.e., cooperative play, on-task, and helping) and maladaptive (i.e., disruptive, physically aggressive, and verbally aggressive) behaviors. Results indicate that some behavioral outcomes improved significantly during the intervention, while most were unaffected. Parent and teacher ratings were predictive of some behavioral outcomes; however, there was no evidence that task-based measures were significant predictors of any classroom behaviors. These results highlight the value and complexity of classroom behavioral observations, as well as the importance of improving understandings of which social-emotional curricula are most effective for addressing both prosocial and maladaptive behaviors, as well as the underlying mechanisms responsible for their efficacy.
dc.format.extent287 pages
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTemple University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofTheses and Dissertations
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dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectEarly childhood education
dc.subjectBehavior observations
dc.subjectEffortful control
dc.subjectExecutive functioning
dc.subjectkindergarten
dc.subjectSEL
dc.subjectSocial-emotional
dc.titleExecutive Functioning Skills and Social-Emotional Intervention Exposure as Predictors of Behavioral Outcomes in Kindergartners
dc.typeText
dc.type.genreThesis/Dissertation
dc.contributor.committeememberJiang, Xu (Psychologist)
dc.contributor.committeememberSchneider, W. Joel
dc.contributor.committeememberSandilos, Lia
dc.description.departmentSchool Psychology
dc.relation.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/10674
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dc.description.degreePh.D.
dc.identifier.proqst15863
dc.date.updated2024-08-30T19:07:43Z
refterms.dateFOA2024-09-12T19:34:15Z
dc.identifier.filenameMagerGarfield_temple_0225E_15863.pdf


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