خلاصة:
Objective: The present study aimed to compare the adolescents with internalizing problems and non-clinical adolescents with respect to their episodic future thinking (EFT) and working memory (WM). Furthermore, this study examined the role of WM in the prediction of EFT.
Methods: This cross-sectional study encompassed a population of female students studying in third grade in Azarshahr Girl’s High Schools (East Azerbaijan Province) in the academic year of 2015-2016. Using multistage cluster sampling method, 40 adolescents with internalizing problems and 42 non-clinical adolescents were selected. The participants were asked to fill out the autobiographical and WM tasks and depression, anxiety, and stress scale. The study hypotheses were tested using multivariate analysis of variance test (MANOVA) and the multiple regression analysis by SPSS V. 22 at P<0.05.
Results: The results showed a significant difference between the two groups regarding WM and subscales of future specificity and future details (P<0.05). However, no significant differences were observed between the two groups regarding future fluency subscale (P<0.05). The current results also showed that working memory predicts EFT (β=-0.19; P<0.01).
Conclusion: The EFT impairment and WM deficits are associated with internalizing problems. Thus, internalizing problems are associated with cognitive dysfunction.
ملخص الجهاز:
Research Paper: Comparison of Episodic Future Thinking and Working Memory in Adolescents With Internalizing Problems and Non-clinical Adolescents Maede Bahri1, Maryam Bahri1* 1.
Comparison of Episodic Future Thinking and Working Memory in Adolescents With Internalizing Problems and Non-clinical Adolescents.
For instance, researchers indicated that depressed and anxious individuals show changes in the episodic memories of past and future (Miloyan, Bulley, & Sud-dendorf, 2016; Van Daele, Griffith, Van den Bergh, & Hermans, 2014).
On the other hand, studying the effect of internalizing problems with respect to the cognitive function of adolescent girls has practical values both for schools and families.
According to the fluency task, the participants were asked to think and write about the events that might happen to them within two specified time periods in their future (within the next year and the next 5–10 years) (MacLeod & Byrne, 1996).
Results of the multivariate analysis for working memory and EFT subscales (View the image of this page) ables, including non-clinical and internalizing problems group (P 0.
Episodic Future Thinking and Working Memory in Adolescents With Internalizing Problems and Non-clinical Adolescents.
Episodic Future Thinking and Working Memory in Adolescents With Internalizing Problems and Non-clinical Adolescents.
Episodic Future Thinking and Working Memory in Adolescents With Internalizing Problems and Non-clinical Adolescents.
Episodic Future Thinking and Working Memory in Adolescents With Internalizing Problems and Non-clinical Adolescents.
Episodic Future Thinking and Working Memory in Adolescents With Internalizing Problems and Non-clinical Adolescents.
Episodic Future Thinking and Working Memory in Adolescents With Internalizing Problems and Non-clinical Adolescents.
Episodic Future Thinking and Working Memory in Adolescents With Internalizing Problems and Non-clinical Adolescents.
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