Susceptibility to peer influence in adolescents with mild-to-borderline intellectual disability: Investigating links with inhibition, Theory of Mind and negative interpretation bias
Wagemaker, E.; Dekkers, T.J.; Bexkens, A.; Salemink, E.; Zadelaar, J.N.; Huizenga, H.M.
(2022) Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, volume 47, issue 4, pp. 376 - 390
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Abstract
Background: This preregistered study compares adolescents with mild-to-borderline intellectual disability (MBID) and typically developing (TD) adolescents on their susceptibility to peer influence. To understand why adolescents with MBID are susceptible to peer influence, links with inhibition, Theory of Mind (ToM) and negative interpretation bias are investigated. Method: We assessed 163
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adolescents (111 MBID, 52 TD 14–19 years; 63% boys) using experimental tasks and self- and/or teacher-reports. Results: Adolescents with MBID and TD adolescents did not differ in their susceptibility to peer influence, inhibition, and negative interpretations. On two ToM instruments, adolescents with MBID performed weaker than TD adolescents. In a structural equation model, tested in the MBID group, inhibition, ToM and negative interpretation bias were not related to susceptibility to peer influence. Conclusions: This study revealed new insights by strong methods such as the multimethod approach, a full theoretical model testing relations between all constructs simultaneously, and the large sample.
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Keywords: Adolescence, inhibition, intellectual disability, negative interpretation bias, peer influence, Theory of Mind, Education, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), General Psychology
ISSN: 1366-8250
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Note: Funding Information: The authors would like to thank all adolescents, parents, schools and mental healthcare institutions that participated. We thank Wery van den Wildenberg for his assistance in setting up the Stop Signal Task. We are very grateful to Alex van der Heijden, Ayda Nakhostin Taghavi, Carlotte Vroon, Chiyang Ng, Dezge Kizilkan, Elisabeth Volten, Femke Schipmölder, Jan Phillip Löffler, Julia Otten, Katja van Gilse, Kim Costerman Boodt, Lisa Nokkert, Mijntje Munnig Schmidt, Milou van der Klift, Musa Can Gül, Nathaly Ong, Nikie Kramer, Nina van den Toorn, Puck Boeijink, Ramona Tinga, Romy van Jaarsveld, Romy Poll, Rosa Liefting, Zurayma Lufuankenda for their assistance in the data collection. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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