Year: 2004
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This project investigated self-esteem's relationship to cognition.Participants included thirty-one children (12 with learning disabilities and 19 controls) between the ages of 8 and 13.A neuropsychological evaluation including measures of self-esteem and depression were administered to each child.Regression analyses demonstrated that one component of self-esteem, Familial Acceptance, significantly predicted visual discrimination performance.When depression was added to the hierarchical regression equations, the self-esteem measures exhibited differential relationships with depression in predicting aspects of cognition.Familial Acceptance directly predicted scores on a visual discrimination task, while Peer Popularity and depression predicted performance for a measure of verbal intelligence.Conversely, Academic Competence approached significance for predicting working memory, but this relationship was mediated by depression.These preliminary findings suggest that self-esteem may be related to cognition, possibly making self-esteem and depression important areas to include in neuropsychological assessment.Further investigation is warranted, however, as the large number of analyses may have produced spurious findings.
Author: Angela J. Naillon
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2230950093