Unpacking mentalizing: The roles of age and executive functioning in self-other appraisal and perspective taking.

ABSTRACT: Mentalizing involves a number of psychological processes designed to appraise self and others from different points of view. Factors affecting the flexibility in the ability to switch between self-other representations and perspectives remain yet unclear. In this study, we sought to (a) assess individual variability in processing and switching between self and other-oriented mental representations and perspectives in a sample of typically developing youths and (b) examine how age and executive functioning may affect this switching process. A total of 88 adolescents and 163 young adults completed the Self-Other Switching Task, a new computerised personality trait attribution paradigm. Measures of sustained attention, working memory, and inhibition were used to assess executive functioning.

SUBMITTER: Poznyak E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12267865 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature