Parenting practices and children's cognitive effort: a laboratory study

Foley, William Michael; Radl, Jonas

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Parenting practices and children's cognitive effort: a laboratory study

dc.contributor.author	Foley, William Michael
dc.contributor.author	Radl, Jonas
dc.contributor.funder	European Commission	en
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-10T11:26:06Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-10T11:26:06Z
dc.date.issued	2023-07
dc.description.abstract	We examine the association between parenting practices (discipline and support) and children's cognitive effort. Cognitive effort is hard to measure; hence, little is known in general about effort dispositions, and in particular about the influence of parenting practices on effort. We present data from a study on almost 1,400 fifth grade students from Berlin and Madrid. Cognitive effort is measured with tests of executive function. The students do the tests under an unincentivised and incentivised condition. We study two effort-related outcomes: "effort direction" - the child's decision to voluntarily do a real-effort task &- and "effort intensity" - the child's performance on the task. Results indicate that both parental discipline and support are associated with effort direction and the presence of incentives moderates this association. However, only parental discipline is (weakly) associated with effort intensity. We conclude that parenting practices primarily influence deliberative rather than instinctual types of cognitive effort.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This research has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 758600).	en
dc.format.extent	55
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	1
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	55
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/37791
dc.identifier.uxxi	DT/0000002081
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/GA-758600
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.eciencia	Economía	es
dc.subject.eciencia	Geografía	es
dc.subject.eciencia	Política	es
dc.subject.eciencia	Sociología	es
dc.subject.other	Parenting	en
dc.subject.other	Effort	en
dc.subject.other	Incentives	en
dc.subject.other	Cognition	en
dc.title	Parenting practices and children's cognitive effort: a laboratory study	en
dc.type	working paper	*
dc.type.hasVersion	AO	*
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