Leung, Jovita;
(2023)
Social Cognitive Development and Mental Health in Adolescence.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
Adolescence, defined from the age of 10-24, is a key developmental period which is associated with protracted biological, psychological, and social changes. While these neurocognitive changes play an important role in the individual’s social, affective, and cognitive development, adolescence has also been described as a time of “storm and stress”, representing a time of increased vulnerability to mental health problems. This thesis described a series of experimental studies investigating the effects of cognitive training on adolescents’ social cognitive development and mental health. The first experimental chapter (Chapter 2) described a cross-sectional study investigating the effect of age and puberty on susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in 520 adolescents aged 11-18 years. The next two experimental chapters examined the effect of social cognitive training programmes on adolescents’ social cognitive development and mental health. Chapter 3 explored the changes in susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence following two 8-week social emotional training programmes in 465 adolescents aged 11-16 years. Chapter 4 described an experimental study examining the effectiveness of an affective control training paradigm (compared to a control training paradigm) in 242 adolescents aged 11-19 years. The study examined the training effect across two training groups, the extent to which training effect varied as a function of age, and how training effect associated with self-reported mental health problems, emotion regulation difficulties, and self-control ability. Finally, Chapter 5 summarised the findings of the empirical studies and discussed how these findings inform the social cognitive development and mental health during adolescence.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Social Cognitive Development and Mental Health in Adolescence |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10175900 |
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