Fenton, Bryony Jessica (2024). Exploring the impact of mood on higher-level cognitive functions. University of Birmingham. Clin.Psy.D.
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Abstract
This thesis contains one volume consisting of five chapters and is submitted by Bryony Fenton for the Clinical Psychology Doctorate. The first chapter comprises a meta-analysis reviewing the executive function performance of children and adolescents with current depression, relative to healthy controls. The key finding in this review was that executive function was significantly worse in children and adolescents with depression. This effect was present for both overall executive function and the three investigated executive functioning subdomains (inhibition, working memory and shifting), with working memory showing the most significant impairment. Methodological limitations were considered, highlighting the need for more rigorous and robust research in the field. Clinical implications related to the assessment, formulation and intervention of childhood/adolescent depression were also explored.
The second chapter details an empirical research project investigating the effect of happiness on the theory of mind ability of 3-4 1⁄2-year-old children. Consistent with research focused on adults, it was found that children induced to feel happiness were more likely to make errors on a classic false belief task than children induced to feel neutral in mood. This paper offers support for happiness in children increasing reliance on more easily accessible egocentric knowledge, when mental state reasoning. However, it is recognised that additional research is required to explore this topic further, with potential avenues discussed.
The third and fourth chapters contain press releases for both the meta-analysis and the empirical research paper respectively, for the purpose of public dissemination.
| Type of Work: | Thesis (Doctorates > Clin.Psy.D.) | ||||||
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| Award Type: | Doctorates > Clin.Psy.D. | ||||||
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| Licence: | All rights reserved | ||||||
| College/Faculty: | Colleges > College of Life & Environmental Sciences | ||||||
| School or Department: | School of Psychology | ||||||
| Funders: | None/not applicable | ||||||
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||
| URI: | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/15411 |
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