Socio-economic status, executive functions, and theory of mind ability in adolescents: Relationships with language ability and cortisol
| Autor: | Christine Bock, Ana F. Trueba, Graham Pluck, Izan Chalen, Marco A. Córdova |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Adolescent
Hydrocortisone Theory of Mind Neuropsychological Tests cortisol 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Executive Function 0302 clinical medicine Developmental Neuroscience Theory of mind socio‐economic status Developmental and Educational Psychology Economic Status Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Socioeconomic status Language ability language 05 social sciences Cognition Original Articles Executive functions Language development Variation (linguistics) Mentalization Original Article adolescence Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | The British Journal of Developmental Psychology |
| ISSN: | 2044-835X |
| Popis: | Socio-economic status (SES) is linked to the development of cognitive abilities, particularly language and executive processes. It is unclear whether these represent a single or independent correlates. We studied 110 Ecuadorian youths aged 12-17 with measures of SES, language, executive function, and theory of mind (ToM), a.k.a. mentalizing. A subsample gave hair samples to estimate recent cortisol levels. Restricting analyses to reliable measures, SES was highly associated with language skill, and to a lesser extent with executive function and ToM performance. However, those latter associations were attenuated and non-significant when language ability was controlled for statistically. Systemic cortisol levels were not associated with SES, but were significantly and negatively correlated with ToM, independent of variation in language skills. We conclude that language development underlies most of the impact of SES on executive function and ToM ability of adolescents, but that stress-related cortisol may have an independent, direct effect on mentalizing. |
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