Investigating concurrent and longitudinal transdiagnostic correlates of executive functioning in adolescents: A multi-informant multi-method approach

Affective demands (e.g. emotion regulation difficulties, internalizing symptoms, negative affect) were negatively associated with concurrent executive functioning, suggesting that such burdens may compromise adolescents' performance on executive tasks. Clinicians are encouraged to evaluate internalizing symptoms contemporaneously with executive function testing, and to attend carefully to adolescent - informant relationships and disclosure dynamics. Implications for multi-method, multi-informant approaches to adolescent assessment are discussed.