在整个青少年时期,执行功能和社会功能之间的双向纵向关系
Eliya Ben-Asher1, Blaire M Porter1, Mary Abbe Roe1
1Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin.
Developmental psychology
|July 6, 2023
概括
执行功能 (EF) 和社会功能在整个青春期都在发展. 这项研究发现了这些技能之间的双向关系,社会动机特别影响了未来的EF发展.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
背景情况:
- 执行功能 (EF) 和社会功能对于青少年的发展和生活结果至关重要.
- 现有的研究表明,EF影响社会功能,但青春期需要进一步研究.
- 青春期可能是社会互动也塑造EF发展的关键时期.
研究的目的:
- 调查青春期执行功能和社会功能之间的纵向,双向关系.
- 确定社会功能的特定组成部分,可以预测执行功能的成熟.
- 加强对EF和社会技能在青少年发育过程中的相互作用的理论理解.
主要方法:
- 长度研究设计,99名参与者年龄为8-19岁,每年评估3年.
- 利用交叉滞后的面板模型来分析EF和社会功能之间的相互影响.
- 检查了社会功能的各种组成部分,包括社会动机.
主要成果:
- 在3年期间,执行职能显著改善.
- 社会功能在各个年龄段保持相对一致.
- 证实了双向关系:第一年EF预测了第二年的社会功能,第一年和第二年的社会功能预测了第三年的EF.
- 青春期早期的社会动机是以后执行功能结果的一致预测因素.
结论:
- 执行功能和社会功能在青春期表现出一种动态的,双向的相互作用.
- 社会动机成为影响青少年执行功能成熟的一个关键因素.
- 这些发现有助于更深入地了解这些关键的认知和社会技能如何在整个青春期共同发展.
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