Loneliness and Adolescents' Neural Processing of Self, Friends, and Teachers: Consequences for the School Self-Concept.
J Res Adolesc
; 29(4): 938-952, 2019 12.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30019816
ABSTRACT
The present interdisciplinary study explored whether perceived loneliness is associated with ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC) activation during self- and social judgments (friends and teachers) in adolescents. Moreover, we examined how vMPFC activity is related to the academic self-concept (ASC). Results of manifest path analysis indicated that high perceived loneliness was related to lower neural response to self-judgments. In turn, high neural response to self-judgments was positively associated with the ASC, whereas there was a trendwise negative association between high neural response to teacher-related judgments and ASC. This study reveals associations between perceived loneliness and neural processing of the self, underlining the idea that feeling isolated from others may hinder self-insight and, by extension, the formation of a stable academic self-concept.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Adolescent Behavior
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Prefrontal Cortex
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Friends
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Adolescent Development
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Loneliness
Limits:
Adolescent
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
En
Journal:
J Res Adolesc
Year:
2019
Document type:
Article