Exploring Domain-Specific Resilience: The Mediating Role of Executive Functioning in the Association between Adversity and Physiological, Psychological, and Academic Functioning

Poster Session V

Friday May 23, 2025 (19:30 - 20:30 ET)
Keyword: Childhood Adversity

Abstract: We used structural equation modeling to examine whether executive functioning (EF) mediates the association between early life adversity and physiological, psychological, or academic outcomes in two different samples. We found that EF-dependent mediation pathways varied by outcomes, sample, and sex/gender.