Are Socially Anxious Children Poor or Advanced Mindreaders?     

Milica Nikolić  Lisa van der Storm  Cristina Colonnesi  Eddie Brummelman  Kees Jan Kan  Susan Bögels 《Child development》2019,90(4):1424-1441

Why are some children more socially anxious than others? One theory holds that socially anxious children are poor mindreaders, which hampers their social interactions; another that socially anxious children are advanced mindreaders leading to heightened self-consciousness in social situations. To test these theories simultaneously, this study (N = 105, ages 8–12) assessed children's mindreading (accuracy in detecting mental states from the eye region), self-consciousness (indexed as physiological blushing during public performance), and social anxiety levels. Results support both theories, showing a quadratic relation between mindreading and social anxiety. Low mindreading was related to clinical levels of social anxiety. High mindreading was related to subclinical levels of social anxiety through blushing. Our findings suggest two social-cognitive pathways to heightened social anxiety.  相似文献   

A Tutorial in Bayesian Potential Outcomes Mediation Analysis     

Milica Miočević  Oscar Gonzalez  Matthew J. Valente  David P. MacKinnon 《Structural equation modeling》2018,25(1):121-136

Statistical mediation analysis is used to investigate intermediate variables in the relation between independent and dependent variables. Causal interpretation of mediation analyses is challenging because randomization of subjects to levels of the independent variable does not rule out the possibility of unmeasured confounders of the mediator to outcome relation. Furthermore, commonly used frequentist methods for mediation analysis compute the probability of the data given the null hypothesis, which is not the probability of a hypothesis given the data as in Bayesian analysis. Under certain assumptions, applying the potential outcomes framework to mediation analysis allows for the computation of causal effects, and statistical mediation in the Bayesian framework gives indirect effects probabilistic interpretations. This tutorial combines causal inference and Bayesian methods for mediation analysis so the indirect and direct effects have both causal and probabilistic interpretations. Steps in Bayesian causal mediation analysis are shown in the application to an empirical example.  相似文献   

Autistic traits and self-conscious emotions in early childhood     

Shanna van Trigt  Cristina Colonnesi  Eddie Brummelman  Terrence D. Jorgensen  Milica Nikolić 《Child development》2023,94(4):e181-e196

Self-conscious emotions arise from evaluating the self through the eyes of others. Given that children with autistic traits may experience difficulties with understanding others' minds, they might show less attuned self-conscious emotions. Two-to-five-year-old children's (N = 98, M_age = 48.54 months, 50% girls, 92% White) self-conscious emotions (guilt, embarrassment, and shame-like avoidance) were observed after children “broke” the experimenter's favorite toy. Data were collected from March 2018 till June 2019. Children with more autistic traits showed less theory of mind (ToM), and more shame-like avoidance, but associations were not mediated by ToM. This provides initial evidence that children with more autistic traits may show disturbances in some but not all self-conscious emotions, which could hinder their social functioning.  相似文献   

Monitoring the effect of Internet use on students behavior case study: Technical Faculty Bor, University of Belgrade     

Milica Niculovi?  Dragana ?ivkovi?  Dragan Manasijevi?  Nada ?trbac 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2012,60(3):547-559

A large number of criteria for evaluating of Internet addiction have been developed, recently. The research of Internet addiction among students of the Technical faculty in Bor, University of Belgrade has been conducted and its results are presented in this paper. The study included 270 students using criteria of Young??s Internet Addiction Test. In history of this University, that was the primarily research of this kind.  相似文献