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Developmental precursors of young school-age children's hostile attribution bias
- Source :
- Developmental psychology, vol 49, iss 12
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- eScholarship, University of California, 2013.
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Abstract
- This prospective longitudinal study provides evidence of preschool-age precursors of hostile attribution bias in young school-age children, a topic that has received little empirical attention. We examined multiple risk domains, including laboratory and observational assessments of children's social-cognition, general cognitive functioning, effortful control, and peer aggression. Preschoolers (N = 231) with a more advanced theory-of-mind, better emotion understanding, and higher IQ made fewer hostile attributions of intent in the early school years. Further exploration of these significant predictors revealed that only certain components of these capacities (i.e., nonstereotypical emotion understanding, false-belief explanation, and verbal IQ) were robust predictors of a hostile attribution bias in young school-age children and were especially strong predictors among children with more advanced effortful control. These relations were prospective in nature-the effects of preschool variables persisted after accounting for similar variables at school age. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for future research and prevention.
- Subjects :
- Male
Statistics as Topic
Individuality
Child Behavior
emotion
Informal
effortful control
Developmental & Child Psychology
hostile attribution
Peer Group
Child Development
Cognition
Bias
Hostility
theory-of-mind
social-cognition
Humans
Psychology
Longitudinal Studies
Child
Preschool
Social Control
Aggression
Social Perception
Specialist Studies in Education
Female
Cognitive Sciences
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Developmental psychology, vol 49, iss 12
- Accession number :
- edsair.od.......325..b20533886847014da5881d92a4be6ec4