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Although scarcity theory provides a new framework for how poverty depletes mental resources, the specific cognitive pathways through which this process of depletion occurs and subsequently impairs cognition remain unclear. This study explored the integrative effect of attention and self\u2010control resources on executive function through eye tracking among children in poverty. A total of 181 Chinese children (mean age 10.73 years; 48.62% boys) participated, 94 of whom lived in poor families. Children who experienced poverty and those who were not in poverty were first randomly assigned to one of three priming conditions (attention depletion, self\u2010control depletion, or non\u2010depletion), followed by executive function tasks. The results revealed that children in poverty showed poorer executive function in the condition of self\u2010control depletion (the active purchasing task) than in the attention depletion (the passive viewing task) or non\u2010depletion conditions. 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