Aerobic fitness and academic achievement: Disentangling the indirect role of executive functions and intelligence.

Academic achievement Aerobic fitness Executive functions Intelligence Mediation

Journal

Psychology of sport and exercise
ISSN: 1878-5476
Titre abrégé: Psychol Sport Exerc
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101088724

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jan 2024
Historique:
received: 10 01 2023
revised: 30 06 2023
accepted: 18 08 2023
pubmed: 8 9 2023
medline: 8 9 2023
entrez: 8 9 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Research in children points to aerobic fitness as a source of individual differences in academic achievement. By examining the indirect effects of executive functions (EF) and intelligence on the relationship between aerobic fitness and academic achievement, the present study provides novel insight about the cognitive mechanisms underlying this relationship. 218 children (8-10 years) completed the following assessments: (i) a VO

Identifiants

pubmed: 37683338
pii: S1469-0292(23)00138-3
doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2023.102514
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

102514

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Marc Yangüez (M)

Faculty of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Campus Biotech, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: marc.yanguezescalera@unige.ch.

Lauren Raine (L)

Northeastern University, United States. Electronic address: l.raine@northeastern.edu.

Julien Chanal (J)

Faculty of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Distance Learning University, Brig, Switzerland. Electronic address: Julien.chanal@unige.ch.

Daphne Bavelier (D)

Faculty of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Campus Biotech, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: daphne.bavelier@unige.ch.

Charles H Hillman (CH)

Northeastern University, United States. Electronic address: c.hillman@northeastern.edu.

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