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Fitness And Action Monitoring: Evidence For Improved Cognitive Flexibility In Young Adults, Jason R. Themanson, Matthew B. Pontifex, Charles H. Hillman
Fitness And Action Monitoring: Evidence For Improved Cognitive Flexibility In Young Adults, Jason R. Themanson, Matthew B. Pontifex, Charles H. Hillman
Jason R. Themanson, Ph.D
To improve behavior, one must detect errors and initiate subsequent corrective adaptations. This action monitoring process has been widely studied, but little is known about how one may improve this aspect of cognition. To examine the relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness and action monitoring, we recorded the error-related negativity (ERN), an event-related brain potential believed to index action monitoring, as well as post-error behavioral indices of action monitoring from healthy young adults (18–25 years) who varied in cardiorespiratory fitness. These measures were collected during the execution of flanker tasks emphasizing response accuracy or speed to better assess the specificity of any …
Self-Efficacy Effects On Neuroelectric And Behavioral Indices Of Action Monitoring In Older Adults, Jason R. Themanson, Charles H. Hillman, Edward Mcauley, Sarah M. Buck, Shawna E. Doerksen, Katherine S. Morris, Matthew B. Pontifex
Self-Efficacy Effects On Neuroelectric And Behavioral Indices Of Action Monitoring In Older Adults, Jason R. Themanson, Charles H. Hillman, Edward Mcauley, Sarah M. Buck, Shawna E. Doerksen, Katherine S. Morris, Matthew B. Pontifex
Jason R. Themanson, Ph.D
The relationships between self-efficacy (SE), i.e., beliefs in personal capabilities, and behavioral and neuroelectric (i.e., ERN, Pe) indices of action monitoring were investigated in 40 older adults (13 male) during the completion of a flanker paradigm performed under task conditions emphasizing either accuracy or speed. SE relative to task performance during both conditions was assessed prior to each cognitive task. Results indicated that high-SE older adults exhibited larger ERN and Pe amplitudes compared to low-SE older adults under the accuracy instruction condition. Additionally, a moderating effect of SE on the relationship between ERN and post-error response accuracy was revealed in …
Peer Relationships And Academic Achievement As Interacting Predictors Of Depressive Symptoms During Middle Childhood, David Schwartz, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, Mylien Duong, Johnathan Nakamoto
Peer Relationships And Academic Achievement As Interacting Predictors Of Depressive Symptoms During Middle Childhood, David Schwartz, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, Mylien Duong, Johnathan Nakamoto
Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman
This article reports a longitudinal investigation that examines academic and social difficulties as predictors of depressive symptoms during middle childhood. Participants were 199 elementary school children (M=9.1 years) who were followed for 2 consecutive school years. In both years of the project, children completed a questionnaire assessing depressive symptoms and a peer nomination inventory assessing friendships and social standing. Grade point averages (GPAs) were obtained from a review of school records. Low GPAs were predictive of depressive symptoms, but this effect did not hold for children who had numerous friends. Similarly, children who had relatively few friends tended to experience …
Violent Victimization In The Community And Children's Subsequent Peer Rejection: The Mediating Role Of Emotion Dysregulation, Brynn Kelly, David Schwartz, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, Johnathan Nakamoto
Violent Victimization In The Community And Children's Subsequent Peer Rejection: The Mediating Role Of Emotion Dysregulation, Brynn Kelly, David Schwartz, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, Johnathan Nakamoto
Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman
This paper describes a short-term longitudinal study of the relation between violent victimization in the community and peer rejection among 199 children (mean age = 9.02 years) attending two urban Los Angeles area elementary schools. We used a multi-informant approach to assess victimization by community violence, peer group victimization, peer rejection, and impairments in emotion regulation. These data were collected annually for two consecutive school years. Violent victimization in the community predicted later peer rejection after accounting for the effects of initial levels of peer rejection. Analyses indicated that this relation was mediated by deficient emotion regulation skills. In addition, …
Interest In Politics, Cigdem Sirin
Marital Status And Voting Behavior, Cigdem Sirin
Marital Status And Voting Behavior, Cigdem Sirin
Cigdem V. Sirin
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Friendships With Peers Who Are Low Or High In Aggression As Moderators Of The Link Between Peer Victimization And Declines In Academic Functioning, David Schwartz, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, Kenneth Dodge, Gregory Pettit, John Bates
Friendships With Peers Who Are Low Or High In Aggression As Moderators Of The Link Between Peer Victimization And Declines In Academic Functioning, David Schwartz, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, Kenneth Dodge, Gregory Pettit, John Bates
Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman
This paper reports two prospective investigations of the role of friendship in the relation between peer victimization and grade point averages (GPA). Study 1 included 199 children (105 boys, 94 girls; mean age of 9.1 years) and Study 2 included 310 children (151 boys, 159 girls; mean age of 8.5 years). These children were followed for two school years. In both projects, we assessed aggression, victimization, and friendship with a peer nomination inventory, and we obtained children's GPAs from a review of school records. Peer victimization was associated with academic declines only when children had either a high number of …