Neural correlates of the self-concept in adolescence. A focus on the significance of friends.

Autor/inn/en	Romund, Lydia; Golde, Sabrina; Lorenz, Robert C.; Raufelder, Diana; Pelz, Patricia; Gleich, Tobias; Heinz, Andreas; Beck, Anne
Titel	Neural correlates of the self-concept in adolescence. A focus on the significance of friends.
Quelle	In: Human brain mapping, 38 (2017) 2, S. 987-996 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Zusatzinformation	Forschungsdaten, Studiendetails und Erhebungsinstrumente
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1065-9471; 1097-0193
DOI	10.1002/hbm.23433
Schlagwörter	Freundschaft; Neuronale Entwicklung; Selbstkonzept; Selbstreflexion; Soziale Bindung; Soziale Beziehung; Adoleszenz; Hirnforschung; Hirnfunktion; Neuronales Netz; Magnetresonanzverfahren; Neurologie; Selbstreferenz; Selbstverständnis; Freund; Jugendlicher
Abstract	The formation of a coherent and unified self-concept represents a key developmental stage during adolescence. Imaging studies on self-referential processing in adolescents are rare, and it is not clear whether neural structures involved in self-reflection are also involved in reflections of familiar others. In the current study, 41 adolescents were asked to make judgments about trait adjectives during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): they had to indicate whether the word describes themselves, their friends, their teachers or politicians. Findings indicate a greater overlap in neural networks for responses to self- and friend-related judgments compared to teachers and politicians. In particular, classic self-reference structures such as the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and medial posterior parietal cortex also exhibited higher activation to judgments about friends. In contrast, brain responses towards judgments of teachers (familiar others) compared to politicians (unfamiliar others) did not significantly differ. Results support behavioral findings of a greater relevance of friends for the development of a self-concept during adolescence and indicate underlying functional brain processes. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2022/2