بعض الوظائف التنفيذية و علاقتها بالاكتئاب لدي عينة من الأطفال

Abstract EN

Many research evidence has confirmed that individuals with social learning difficulties are more likely to experience depression due to many problems, lack of attention to the problems that can cause them, and they have difficulty understanding others' feelings, taking their roles, or putting themselves in their place, Which is a major cause of their multiple social problems because of their misreading of signs, evidence and social insinuations, and their inability to understand or interpret others' emotions and feelings .

Therefore, research on positive concepts, such as executive functions, is of great importance, because of the cognitive problems of children, learning difficulties, high level of anxiety, disorder, depression and frustration, which affects the behavior of the individual who suffers difficulties in two directions, one withdrawal and the other aggressive .

This study drives at exploring some executive functions and their relation to depression in a sample of children.

This research is applied on a sample of (30) female children in primary stage aged from (9-12 yrs.

old).

The field study has started in March, 2018 and ended in April, 2018.

The research follows the qualitative-correlative method; and for achieving research objectives, the researcher uses several instruments represented in: Scale of Depression (by Mai M.

Ekram, 2018)- Scale of Social Learning Disabilities (by Ashraf Abdel Ghafar, 2004)- Scale of the Socio-Economic Cultural Level (by Mohamed El-Behairy, 2002)- Scale of Asuit University Non-Verbal Intelligence (by Taha El-Mestekaway, 2002)- Scale of Executive Functions (by Dina Fransis, 2015).

Several statistical approaches are used in study as follows: Non-Parameter T.

Test, for differences between independent groups- Pearson Coefficient Correlation- Spearman-Brown Split Coefficient Correlation- Cronbach’s Alpha & Split-Half.

Study results indicate a significant statistical correlation exists between average scores of study sample children on Scale of Depression and Executive Functions.

There is a significant statistical correlation between average scores of study sample children on Scale of Social Learning Disabilities for Children and Executive Functions and there is a significant statistical correlation between average scores of study sample children on Scales of Depression for Children and Executive Functions for Children