TY - JOUR

T1 - Stroop-like animal size test

T2 - Links with child effortful control, personality and problem behavior

AU - Bairova, Nadezhda B.

AU - Bocharov, Andrey V.

AU - Savostyanov, Alexander N.

AU - Petrenko, Evgenia N.

AU - Kozlova, Elena A.

AU - Saprigyn, Alexander E.

AU - Slobodskaya, Helena R.

PY - 2020/4/2

Y1 - 2020/4/2

N2 - This study examined children’s performance on the Stroop-like animal size test and its relations to parent-reported temperamental effortful control, personality, and common emotional and behavioral problems in a Russian sample of 5-12-year-olds (N = 202). The animal size test demonstrated a Stroop-like effect for accuracy and response time (RT) in both genders and across all ages. Children’s performance on the animal size test considerably improved with age such that older children performed more accurately, were faster and their responses were less variable than younger children’s responses. The findings indicated that RT was negatively related to temperamental trait of effortful control and its key components, attention focusing and inhibitory control, whereas RT variability was negatively related to both regulatory traits, effortful control and conscientiousness, and their components. Children’s performance on the AST was meaningfully related to hyperactivity-inattention, externalizing behavior and overall level of childhood psychopathology. These findings provide support for the usefulness of the animal size test in the neuropsychological assessment of preschool and school-age children.

AB - This study examined children’s performance on the Stroop-like animal size test and its relations to parent-reported temperamental effortful control, personality, and common emotional and behavioral problems in a Russian sample of 5-12-year-olds (N = 202). The animal size test demonstrated a Stroop-like effect for accuracy and response time (RT) in both genders and across all ages. Children’s performance on the animal size test considerably improved with age such that older children performed more accurately, were faster and their responses were less variable than younger children’s responses. The findings indicated that RT was negatively related to temperamental trait of effortful control and its key components, attention focusing and inhibitory control, whereas RT variability was negatively related to both regulatory traits, effortful control and conscientiousness, and their components. Children’s performance on the AST was meaningfully related to hyperactivity-inattention, externalizing behavior and overall level of childhood psychopathology. These findings provide support for the usefulness of the animal size test in the neuropsychological assessment of preschool and school-age children.

KW - effortful control

KW - personality

KW - problem behavior

KW - self-control

KW - Stroop-like animal size test

KW - PERFORMANCE

KW - AGE-RELATED TRENDS

KW - SELF-REGULATION

KW - AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS

KW - REACTION-TIME VARIABILITY

KW - INTERFERENCE CONTROL

KW - EXECUTIVE FUNCTION

KW - INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES

KW - INHIBITORY CONTROL

KW - YOUNG-CHILDREN

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073813762&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/09297049.2019.1665173

DO - 10.1080/09297049.2019.1665173

M3 - Article

C2 - 31535948

AN - SCOPUS:85073813762

VL - 26

SP - 409

EP - 432

JO - Child Neuropsychology

JF - Child Neuropsychology

SN - 0929-7049

IS - 3

ER -