Knowledge Alert - JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

This study extends previous research and examines whether working memory(WM) is associated with multiple measures of concurrent socialfunctioning (peer rejection, overall social competence, relationalaggression, physical aggression, and conflict resolutions skills) intypically developing fourth- and fifth-grade children (N = 116). Poorcentral executive WM was associated with both broad social impairments(peer rejection and poor overall social competence) and specific socialimpairments (physical aggression, relational aggression, and impairedconflict resolution skills); poor verbal storage was associated onlywith greater peer rejection, and spatial storage was not associated withany measures of social impairment. Analyses also examined whetherspecific impairments in aggressive behavior and conflict resolutionskills mediated the association between central executive and broadmeasures of social functioning. Greater physical aggression and impairedconflict resolution skills were both significant mediators; relationalaggression was not. Implications for theory and future research arediscussed. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.========================================================================*Pages: 436-452 (Article)*View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=CCC&DestLinkType=FullRecord;KeyUT=CCC:000320740400004*Order Full Text [ ]Title:How to bet on a memory: Developme...
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