These factors
include cognitive traits (i.e., language development, pre-literacy skills) but more important for this study, non-cognitive traits, including self - control strategies and social skills that facilitate children's success in a structured school learning environment [33].
Not exact matches
Factors other than practice believed to influence athletic performance
include genetic attributes, such as fast - twitch muscles and maximum blood oxygenation level;
cognitive and psychological
traits and behaviors —
including confidence, performance anxiety, intelligence and working memory capacity — play roles as well, though researchers don't yet know the significance of each.
We surveyed over 1,100 entering college freshmen, majoring in business and engineering at a public university in the US, and combined this information with administrative data to create a comprehensive data set that, in addition to the usual academic performance data,
cognitive ability measures, and demographics, also
included measures of non-
cognitive skills, personality
traits, and student expectations about college success.
In this test, the focus is on leadership skills,
including both
cognitive abilities and unique personality
traits.
Your
cognitive traits shape how you engage with the world around you;
including how you perform at a given job.
For example, some have found significant differences between children with divorced and continuously married parents even after controlling for personality
traits such as depression and antisocial behavior in parents.59 Others have found higher rates of problems among children with single parents, using statistical methods that adjust for unmeasured variables that, in principle, should
include parents» personality
traits as well as many genetic influences.60 And a few studies have found that the link between parental divorce and children's problems is similar for adopted and biological children — a finding that can not be explained by genetic transmission.61 Another study, based on a large sample of twins, found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted depression in adulthood even with genetic resemblance controlled statistically.62 Although some degree of selection still may be operating, the weight of the evidence strongly suggests that growing up without two biological parents in the home increases children's risk of a variety of
cognitive, emotional, and social problems.
At the child level, temperamental features evident in infancy and toddlerhood such as irritability, restlessness, irregular patterns of behaviour, lack of persistence and low adaptability increase the risk of behaviour problems7, 8,9 as do certain genetic and neurobiological
traits.10, 11 At the family level, parenting practices
including punitive discipline, inconsistency, low warmth and involvement, and physical aggression have been found to contribute to the development of young children's aggressive behaviour.12 Children who are exposed to high levels of discord within the home and whose parents have mental health and / or substance abuse issues are also at heightened risk.13 Other important correlates of aggression in children that can contribute to chronic aggression
include faulty social -
cognitive processes and peer rejection.14
Psychosocial factors that were positively related to distress
include personality
traits, coping strategies, social situations and
cognitive appraisals of the situation.