Family Matters: Integenerational and Interpersonal Processes of Executive Function article

Through complex gene-environment transactions, EF is transmitted across generations within parent-child relationships that provide powerful socialization and experiential contexts in which EF and related attentive behavior are forged and practiced. Families matter as parents regulate home environments and themselves as best they can while also supporting cognitive self-regulation of attentive behavior in their children.

Current Directions in Psychological Sciences

2014 23:230

Kirby Deater-Dechard

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25197171