TY - JOUR
T1 - (Social) Cognitive skills and social information processing in children with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities
AU - van Nieuwenhuijzen, M.
AU - Vriens, A.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The purpose of this study was to examine the unique contributions of (social) cognitive skills such as inhibition, working memory, perspective taking, facial emotion recognition, and interpretation of situations to the variance in social information processing in children with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities. Respondents were 79 children with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities in the age of 8-12 who were given tasks on social cognitive skills and social information processing. The results from the present study show that emotion recognition, interpretation, working memory and inhibition skills predict social information processing skills. It is concluded that especially emotion recognition and interpretation skills are important cognitive skills that predict social information processing, and therefore should be the focus of treatment. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
AB - The purpose of this study was to examine the unique contributions of (social) cognitive skills such as inhibition, working memory, perspective taking, facial emotion recognition, and interpretation of situations to the variance in social information processing in children with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities. Respondents were 79 children with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities in the age of 8-12 who were given tasks on social cognitive skills and social information processing. The results from the present study show that emotion recognition, interpretation, working memory and inhibition skills predict social information processing skills. It is concluded that especially emotion recognition and interpretation skills are important cognitive skills that predict social information processing, and therefore should be the focus of treatment. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
U2 - 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.09.025
DO - 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.09.025
M3 - Article
SN - 0891-4222
VL - 33
SP - 426
EP - 443
JO - Research in Developmental Disabilities
JF - Research in Developmental Disabilities
ER -