Diverse adolescents' transcendent thinking predicts young adult psychosocial outcomes via brain network development.

ABSTRACT: Developmental scientists have long described mid-adolescents' emerging capacities to make deep meaning about the social world and self, here called transcendent thinking, as a hallmark developmental stage. In this 5-years longitudinal study, sixty-five 14-18 years-old youths' proclivities to grapple psychologically with the ethical, systems-level and personal implications of social stories, predicted future increases in the coordination of two key brain networks: the default-mode network, involved in reflective, autobiographical and free-form thinking, and the executive control network, involved in effortful, focused thinking; findings were independent of IQ, ethnicity, and socioeconomic background. This neural development predicted late-adolescent identity development, which predicted you

SUBMITTER: Gotlieb RJM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10943076 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature