APS
2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024
Examining the Relationship between Anxiety, Executive Functioning, and Reading Achievement in Adolescents with Specific Learning Disabilities
- Peyton Kehl
- Brianna Stein
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Shannon Kirshy
University of Alabama @ Birmingham - M. Grace Albright
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Sylvie Mrug
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Heather McGinnis
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Kevin Campbell
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Caroline Richter
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Abstract
Using a sample of 68 adolescents with specific learning disabilities, this longitudinal study examined the relationship between reading anxiety, generalized anxiety, executive functioning, and reading achievement in adolescents with specific learning disabilities and longitudinally tested the reciprocal theory and the attentional control theory using two multiple regression analyses.
