Multidimensional social cognitive profiles: implications for adolescent internalizing psychopathology.

Authors

Victoria Guazzelli Williamson, Nicholas B Allen, Jennifer H Pfeifer

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Trends in cognitive sciences. Jul 09, 2026. Epub Jul 09, 2026.

Abstract

Adolescence is a period of vulnerability for internalizing mental health disorders. One underappreciated mechanism of internalizing psychopathology is higher-order social cognition (i.e., cognitive processing of information about the self and others), which is highly salient during adolescence. We propose that the protracted development of social cognition during adolescence results in highly individualized, multidimensional profiles that can be characterized across four core dimensions (Propensity, Degree, Positivity, and Negativity). A social cognitive profile with greater Propensity, Degree, and Negativity, and decreased Positivity, along with associated decreases in Accuracy, may confer greater risk for internalizing psychopathology, particularly if applied inflexibly across contexts. Future research may test the utility of these profiles for stratification, prediction, or intervention targeting.

PMID:
42425845
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 10 Jul 2026.

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