Age-related changes in the impact of valence on self-referential processing in female adolescents and young adults.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a period of self-concept development. In the current study, females aged 11-30 years (N = 210) completed two self-referential tasks. In a memory task, participants judged the descriptiveness of words for themselves or a familiar other and their recognition of these words was subsequently measured. In an associative-matching task, participants associated neutral shapes to either themselves or a familiar other and the accuracy of their matching judgements was measured. In the evaluative memory task, participants were more likely to remember self-judged than other-judged words and there was an age-related decrease in the size of this self-reference effect. Negative self-judgements showed a quadratic association with age, peaking around age 19. Participants were more likely to r

SUBMITTER: Moses-Payne ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8791274 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature