Jeannette E Benson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5759289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeannette E Benson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeannette E |
| FAMILY NAME | Benson |
| SIGNATURE | BENSON J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Maternal depression and children’s false belief understanding
Children of depressed mothers show substantial social impairment, which increases their risk for developing depression. Theory of mind understanding forms the basis of social functioning, and is impaired in children of currently depressed mothers. Models of risk emphasize that a history of any maternal depression confers risk to later psychopathology. Therefore, we tested a novel model of the impact of lifetime maternal depression on children’s f…
Individual differences in executive functioning predict preschoolers’ improvement from theory-of-mind training
Twenty-four 3.5-year-old children who initially showed poor performance on false-belief tasks participated in a training protocol designed to promote performance on these tasks. Our aim was to determine whether the extent to which children benefited from training was predicted by their performance on a battery of executive functioning tasks. Findings indicated that individual differences in executive functioning performance strongly and consisten…
Individual differences in executive functioning predict preschoolers’ improvement from theory-of-mind training
Twenty-four 3.5-year-old children who initially showed poor performance on false-belief tasks participated in a training protocol designed to promote performance on these tasks. Our aim was to determine whether the extent to which children benefited from training was predicted by their performance on a battery of executive functioning tasks. Findings indicated that individual differences in executive functioning performance strongly and consisten…
Individual differences in executive functioning predict preschoolers’ improvement from theory-of-mind training
Twenty-four 3.5-year-old children who initially showed poor performance on false-belief tasks participated in a training protocol designed to promote performance on these tasks. Our aim was to determine whether the extent to which children benefited from training was predicted by their performance on a battery of executive functioning tasks. Findings indicated that individual differences in executive functioning performance strongly and consisten…
Maternal depression and children’s false belief understanding
Children of depressed mothers show substantial social impairment, which increases their risk for developing depression. Theory of mind understanding forms the basis of social functioning, and is impaired in children of currently depressed mothers. Models of risk emphasize that a history of any maternal depression confers risk to later psychopathology. Therefore, we tested a novel model of the impact of lifetime maternal depression on children’s f…
Cognition (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · False belief (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Theory of mind (2 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (1 work) · Child and Animal Learning Development (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work)