TITLE:
Socio-Economic Level and Executive Functioning: Vulnerability and Effects on Development
AUTHORS:
Luana Metta, Luciana Carneiro, Renata Haesbaert, Mirella Farias, Rodolpho Cortez, Priscila Barros-Felinto, Laura Aragão, Izabel Hazin
KEYWORDS:
Executive Functions, Nepsy-II, Vulnerability
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.8,
August
31,
2023
ABSTRACT: In recent years, Brazil has managed to increase its economic development. However, this
development has not meant improved living conditions for most of the
population, and this socioeconomic gap has grown in the Covid-19 period. The
family socioeconomic level ends up influencing the access to resources such as
health, education, and leisure. These resources are extremely important for
cognitive development, especially the Executive Functions (EF). Neuroscientific
findings highlight that the Executive Functions (EF) are those that suffer the
most from the impact of unfavorable development conditions. The FE is
responsible for the ability of self-regulation or self-management and its
development represents an important adaptive milestone in the human species. In
this study, 80 children regularly enrolled in public and private schools were
evaluated, with the main objective of assessing executive functions using the
NEPSY-II.