The Difference Of Influence On Social Anxiety And Depression To Children's Executive Function

In recent years,the executive function has become the research focus,which probes the basic cognitive processing with the consciously control.As for influential effect of social anxiety and depression,especially the impact of depression to the children's executive functional system attracted the people's light,otherwise,social anxiety and depression has been proved that it did harm the efficiency of executive function.Most researches has been done on the behavior experiment or it has been done with the assistance of adopting the questionnaire and behavior experiment as well.We can see from this fact that,there is a deficiency field of influence research of social anxiety and depression to children's executive function.After we finished the executive function research based on children's social anxiety and depression,it provides the evidence of promoting the children's inhibition controlling;working memory and their cognitive flexibility.By concerning that,the research will be done with the assistance of the SASC,CDI and three experimental task of executive function,the research on children's executive function will be done via two questionnaires and three behavior experiment.The subjects were be first tested by SASC and CDI questionnaires,and then three behavioral experiments were conducted.The experiment was designed by 3(age 7,9,11)x 2(Group: high social anxiety group / low social anxiety group,high depression group / low depression group).The dependent variable is the correct rate and reaction of the subject.The research has the two parts.The first part is the performance of group and age in the three task paradigm.(1)the results of high and low social anxiety on the three experimental paradigms:(1)in Animal Go/No-Go,the main effect of age is significant in reaction time.(2)In N-back,the main effect of correct rate load is significant,and the interaction between load and age is significant.The main effect of reaction time is significant,and the main effect margin of group is significant.(3)In the Switch task paradigm,the main effect of reaction time group is significant.(2)the results of three experimental paradigms of high and low depression were as follows:(1)in Animal Go/No-Go,the main effect of correct rate group was significant;the main effect of reaction time was significant.(2)In N-back,the main effect of correct rate load is significant,and the main effect of reaction time is significant.(3)In the Switch task paradigm,both the correct rate and the main effect of the reaction are not significant;(3)in the conversion cost,the main effect of the odd and even judgment is significant,and the main effect of the size judgment is not significant.The second part is to explore the predictive function of high and low social anxiety and high and low depression on children's executive function.The multiple regression analysis of social anxiety and depression on Animal Go/No-Go,N-back,and transformation paradigm showed that the correct rate of depression to Animal Go/No-Go and the response of social anxiety to the transformation paradigm had a significant predictive effect.Two studies have shown that the executive function of children aged 7,9,and 11 years has its age characteristics: the performance of the executive function is probably getting better and better with age:with the growth of age,the executive function is probably getting better and better.In particular,Inhibitory Control is more stable after 7 years of age,but it still has a slow growth.Working Memory and Cognitive flexibility have almost the same development path.They developed slowly at the age of 7-9,but at the age of 9-11,the stage was also improving rapidly;social anxiety and depression have a certain impact on the development of children's executive function and the impact of it should be further studied.It also prompts us to pay attention to the development of children's mental health.In the days to come,it is possible to reduce the social anxiety and depression of children as a potential training method to improve the performance of children.