TY - JOUR AU - Quílez-Robres, Alberto AU - Moyano, Nieves AU - Cortés-Pascual, Alejandra PY - 2021/10/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Executive Functions and Self- Esteem in Academic Performance: A Mediational Analysis JF - International Journal of Psychological Research JA - Int. j. psychol. res. VL - 14 IS - 2 SE - Research Article DO - 10.21500/20112084.5198 UR - https://revistas.usb.edu.co/index.php/IJPR/article/view/5198 SP - 52-60 AB - <p><strong>Objective</strong>: Once the paradigm of intelligence as the only predictor of academic performance has been overcome, the influence of other variables, such as reasoning, verbal fluency, executive functions, motivation and self-esteem, was studied. <strong>Method</strong>: For this purpose, an exploratory and incidental research design was used in a sample of 132 subjects aged 6-9 years. Different instruments were administered: RAVEN, Effective Reading, Brief II, MAPE II, and Coopersmith Scale, respectively. <strong>Results</strong>: The results indicate that the predictive model formed by reasoning, verbal fluency, executive functions, and self-esteem explains 55.4% of the academic results. As mediating variables, self-esteem emerges as a predictor of both cognitive and motivational variables, and executive functions, as a predictor of emotional and motivational variables. <strong>Discussion</strong>: This implies theoretical and practical implications of an educational nature with practical implications in primary school classrooms, in order to implement plans to develop self-esteem and executive functions.</p> ER -