The Role of Cognitive Flexibility and Organizational Executive Function in Predict of Internalized Disorders of Preschool Children

Background and Aim : Preschool children exposed to major disorders due to lack of cognitive and emotional skills. Also the purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of cognitive flexibility and organizational executive function in predict of internalized disorders in preschool children.Methods : The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the study includes all preschool children in Urmia city in summer 1398. A total of 140 children (70 girls and 70 boys) were selected through available sampling and completed the Wisconsin Test, College Executive Function and Achenbach Internalizing Disorders by children and their parents. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression.Results : The results showed a negative relationship between cognitive flexibility and internalized disorders (P <0.01) and a positive relationship between organized executive functioning and internalized disorders in preschool children (P <0.05). The results of multiple regression analysis also showed that %22 of the variance of internalizing disorders in preschool children was predicted by cognitive flexibility and Organizational Executive Function.Conclusion : Based on the results and considering high score on internalized disorders and organizational executive function means more disorder, therefore, cognitive flexibility had a negative relationship with internalizing executive function and positive relationship with internalized disorders. Accordingly, these variables played an important role in reducing the internalized disorders of preschool children, which, according to the results, suggests that these disorders reduce the frequency of these disorders through promoting cognitive flexibility and executive functioning of these children.

کلیدواژه ها:

Cognitive Flexibility ، Organizational Executive Function ، Internalized Disorders