APS
2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024
From Noncompliance to Discipline: Inhibitory Control Relates to Children's Rule-Breaking Behaviors
- Maria Siminiuc Launeanu
University of British Columbia - Angel Lee
University of British Columbia - Tian Xin Lim
University of British Columbia - Gitanjali Chakravarti
University of British Columbia - Shawn Yee
University of British Columbia - Catherine Ann Cameron
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Children’s age and executive functioning have previously been negatively associated with noncompliant behavior. Here, 496 participants (Mage = 7.21) were given opportunities to violate rules. A negative relationship between age and rule-breaking, mediated by inhibitory control, was found, deepening prior understandings of the relationships between age, inhibitory control, and cheating.
Self-Control
