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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2014 Dec 9;21(1):34–49. doi: 10.1017/S1355617714001027

Table 7.

Correlations between D-KEFS and BRIEF variables for CHD and control groups

Verbal Fluency Word Context Sorting Design Fluency Tower

Letter Categ Switch TCC CCS Recog Filled Empty Switch TAS TPMR MAR
CHD (combined)

BRIEF Parent (n = 327)
    Inhibit −0.07 −0.11 0.19 −0.12 −0.18 0.21 −0.06 −0.06 −0.12 −0.13 0.02 −0.08
    Shift −0.10 0.23 −0.13 −0.22 −0.15 0.25 −0.15 0.21 0.26 −0.10 −0.15 0.02
    Emotion Control −0.05 −0.12 −0.04 −0.13 −0.11 0.18 −0.10 −0.12 −0.17 −0.06 −0.04 −0.01
    Initiate −0.07 −0.13 −0.18 −0.12 −0.13 0.21 −0.13 −0.13 0.19 −0.15 −0.14 −0.05
    Working Memory −0.14 0.21 0.24 −0.26 0.20 0.27 −0.15 −0.17 0.24 −0.17 −0.15 0.00
    Plan/Organize −0.11 0.19 0.19 −0.14 −0.16 0.22 −0.13 −0.12 0.19 −0.17 −0.10 −0.04
    Org of Materials 0.04 0.01 −0.08 0.00 0.03 −0.03 0.01 0.02 0.01 −0.05 0.05 −0.06
    Monitor −0.13 −0.18 0.24 −0.20 −0.16 0.22 −0.16 −0.14 −0.21 −0.15 −0.04 −0.04
BRIEF Teacher (n = 197)
    Inhibit −0.05 −0.01 −0.14 −0.19 −0.15 −0.13 −0.09 −0.13 −0.07 −0.12 −0.02 −0.01
    Shift −0.19 −0.11 −0.17 −0.30 0.28 0.27 −0.19 −0.23 −0.20 −0.10 −0.13 0.05
    Emotion Control −0.05 −0.05 −0.14 −0.17 −0.13 −0.11 −0.07 −0.12 −0.13 −0.12 −0.04 0.02
    Initiate 0.30 −0.20 0.29 0.41 0.32 0.30 0.26 0.30 0.25 −0.23 0.28 0.08
    Working Memory −0.21 −0.14 −0.22 −0.39 0.27 0.26 −0.18 0.26 −0.20 −0.19 −0.18 0.07
    Plan/Organize −0.19 −0.12 −0.20 −0.38 0.30 0.26 −0.18 0.25 −0.22 0.25 −0.18 0.01
    Org of Materials −0.10 −0.05 −0.14 −0.21 −0.10 −0.10 −0.04 −0.12 −0.07 −0.08 −0.08 0.06
    Monitor −0.13 −0.10 −0.22 −0.31 0.24 0.24 −0.11 −0.18 −0.17 −0.19 −0.14 −0.01
BRIEF Self (n = 303)
    Inhibit −0.05 −0.06 −0.10 −0.03 −0.08 −0.08 −0.01 −0.02 −0.02 −0.03 0.01 −0.08
    Shift −0.09 0.20 −0.18 −0.17 −0.16 −0.16 −0.12 −0.11 −0.10 −0.06 −0.11 0.00
    Emotion Control −0.11 −0.14 −0.06 −0.10 −0.17 −0.17 −0.11 −0.13 −0.10 −0.09 −0.10 −0.03
    Monitor −0.03 −0.15 −0.13 −0.09 −0.11 −0.13 −0.06 −0.08 −0.03 −0.11 −0.05 −0.11
    Working Memory −0.08 −0.13 −0.15 −0.12 −0.17 0.20 −0.07 −0.08 −0.08 −0.09 −0.09 −0.02
    Plan/Organize −0.09 −0.17 −0.13 −0.09 −0.14 −0.13 −0.04 −0.04 −0.07 −0.07 −0.06 −0.03
    Org of Materials −0.03 −0.08 −0.05 0.08 0.02 0.02 0.05 0.05 0.01 0.01 0.01 −0.03
    Task Completion −0.08 −0.17 −0.14 −0.14 −0.15 0.20 −0.09 −0.10 −0.11 −0.11 −0.04 −0.09

Control

BRIEF Parent (n = 94)
    Inhibit −0.05 0.14 0.06 −0.11 −0.01 −0.13 0.01 0.00 0.08 0.12 −0.05 0.08
    Shift −0.09 0.05 0.01 −0.16 0.02 −0.13 −0.06 −0.11 0.06 −0.01 −0.07 0.02
    Emotion Control −0.01 0.14 0.07 0.01 −0.07 −0.18 0.04 0.01 −0.07 −0.10 −0.26 0.01
    Initiate −0.02 −0.06 −0.05 −0.06 −0.03 −0.28 −0.03 −0.14 0.05 0.04 −0.12 −0.01
    Working Memory −0.01 −0.04 −0.02 −0.09 0.04 −0.26 0.02 −0.13 −0.03 0.08 −0.24 −0.06
    Plan/Organize −0.14 0.03 −0.04 −0.02 0.00 −0.23 −0.06 −0.10 0.00 0.01 −0.18 −0.13
    Org of Materials 0.03 0.12 0.10 0.12 0.01 −0.09 −0.16 −0.16 0.00 0.10 −0.02 −0.11
    Monitor −0.12 0.03 −0.10 −0.03 −0.06 −0.17 0.06 0.00 0.01 0.06 −0.13 −0.02
BRIEF Teacher (n = 36)
    Inhibit −0.12 0.20 −0.13 −0.15 −0.18 −0.50 −0.15 −0.04 −0.23 0.05 −0.31 0.14
    Shift 0.04 0.19 0.02 0.10 0.09 −0.33 0.18 0.02 −0.28 0.18 −0.38 0.35
    Emotion Control 0.02 0.17 0.09 0.23 −0.09 −0.27 −0.11 −0.19 −0.29 −0.01 −0.32 0.06
    Initiate −0.17 0.04 0.08 −0.19 0.07 −0.49 0.00 −0.18 −0.34 0.06 −0.15 −0.01
    Working Memory −0.23 0.05 −0.13 −0.10 −0.13 −0.40 −0.33 −0.33 −0.30 −0.10 −0.33 −0.05
    Plan/Organize −0.21 −0.01 −0.06 −0.26 −0.04 −0.32 −0.37 −0.42 −0.31 0.10 −0.11 −0.07
    Org of Materials −0.07 −0.02 −0.22 −0.33 −0.38 −0.43 −0.01 −0.11 −0.06 −0.01 −0.28 −0.05
    Monitor −0.35 0.00 −0.14 −0.30 −0.16 −0.46 −0.17 −0.24 −0.44 0.05 −0.22 0.04
BRIEF Self (n = 97)
     Inhibit −0.04 0.05 0.10 −0.08 −0.15 −0.18 −0.03 0.05 0.01 0.01 −0.01 −0.02
     Shift −0.08 −0.09 0.18 −0.20 −0.04 −0.05 −0.05 −0.04 0.02 −0.07 −0.06 −0.07
    Emotion Control −0.03 −0.01 0.16 −0.12 −0.11 −0.17 −0.15 −0.06 −0.04 −0.04 −0.11 −0.02
    Monitor −0.15 −0.06 0.09 −0.19 −0.02 −0.09 −0.05 −0.08 0.05 0.05 −0.06 0.01
    Working Memory −0.06 −0.08 0.08 −0.12 0.06 −0.16 −0.06 −0.06 −0.02 −0.06 −0.05 −0.17
    Plan/Organize −0.14 −0.18 0.01 −0.17 −0.05 −0.16 −0.05 −0.07 0.07 −0.15 −0.08 −0.12
    Org of Materials 0.01 −0.06 0.03 −0.07 0.10 −0.16 −0.15 −0.09 0.07 −0.06 −0.03 −0.14
    Task Completion −0.21 −0.21 −0.09 −0.09 −0.04 −0.30 −0.15 −0.23 −0.17 −0.08 −0.27 −0.12

Note. Results are Spearman partial correlation coefficients controlling for SES, age, sex, and race. TCC = Total Consecutively Correct; CCS = Confirmed Correct Sorts; TPMR = Time-per-Move Ratio; MAR = Move-Accuracy Ratio. Correlations significant at p < .001 are bolded.