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Studies on Executive function components in intellectual disability

spaniol2020.Rd

Results from 26 studies, including 99 effect sizes (Hedge's g), on inhibition, shifting, and attention in people with intellectual disability compared to people matched on mental age (Spaniol and Danielsson 2019) .

Usage

data("spaniol2020")

Format

A data frame with 99 rows and 11 variables:

  • author: author of study

  • study_id: unique id for study

  • study_year: year of publication

  • es_id: unique id for effect size

  • yi: effect size in (Hedge's g)

  • vi: sampling variance for effect size (SE^2)

  • group_id: experimental intellectual disability group. one of: non-specific cause ("NSID"), Fragile X syndrome ("FXS"), Down syndrome ("DS"), or Williams syndrome ("WS")

  • ef_type: task type ("inhibition", "updating", "shifting", "fluency", "attention", or "other")

  • ef_component: executive function component ("inhibition", "shifting" or "attention")

  • domain: domain of executive function component ("verbal", "visuospatial", or "other")

  • test: test used to measure executive function

Details

Further details can be found at https://psyarxiv.com/gjqcs/

References

Spaniol M, Danielsson H (2019). “A Meta-analysis of the Executive Functions Inhibition, Shifting and Updating in Intellectual Disabilities.” PsyArXiv.