The Impact of Working Memory on the Development of Social Play in Japanese Preschool Children: Emotion Knowledge as a Mediator
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- Working memory is positively correlated with emotion recognition and emotion situation knowledge.
- Emotion situation knowledge is more sophisticated than emotion recognition and, thus, is more strongly associated with social play.
- Emotion knowledge mediates the relationship between working memory and social play.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Procedure
2.3. Measures
2.3.1. Social Play
2.3.2. Emotion Knowledge
2.3.3. Working Memory
2.3.4. Verbal Ability
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Descriptive Statistics
3.2. Mediational Analysis
Social Play and Working Memory
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Measure | n | M | SD | Range |
---|---|---|---|---|
Age | 47 | 61.89 | 6.00 | 51.0–72.0 |
Verbal ability | 47 | 19.91 | 9.37 | 5.0–44.0 |
Working memory | 47 | 2.53 | 0.69 | 1.0–4.0 |
Emotion recognition | 47 | 2.19 | 0.88 | 0.0–4.0 |
Situation knowledge | 47 | 3.53 | 0.72 | 2.0–4.0 |
Social play | 47 | 0.40 | 0.25 | 0.00–0.90 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
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1. Gender | - | |||||
2. Age | −0.25 | - | ||||
3. Verbal ability | 0.02 | 0.51 ** | - | |||
4. Working memory | 0.21 | 0.16 | 0.42 ** | - | ||
5. Emotion recognition | −0.06 | 0.25 | 0.28 * | 0.37 * | - | |
6. Situation knowledge | −0.04 | 0.22 | −0.03 | −0.06 | 0.25 † | - |
7. Social play | −0.08 | 0.40 ** | 0.28 * | 0.40 ** | 0.66 ** | 0.41 ** |
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Shimizu, H. The Impact of Working Memory on the Development of Social Play in Japanese Preschool Children: Emotion Knowledge as a Mediator. Children 2023, 10, 524. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10030524
Shimizu H. The Impact of Working Memory on the Development of Social Play in Japanese Preschool Children: Emotion Knowledge as a Mediator. Children. 2023; 10(3):524. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10030524
Chicago/Turabian StyleShimizu, Hisayo. 2023. "The Impact of Working Memory on the Development of Social Play in Japanese Preschool Children: Emotion Knowledge as a Mediator" Children 10, no. 3: 524. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10030524