The Effects of Self-Perceived Parenting Attitudes on Visuo-Spatial Attention and Mental Rotation Abilities among Adolescents

Sangyub Kim, Yeonji Baik and Kichun Nam
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Sangyub Kim: Wisdom Science Center, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea
Yeonji Baik: College of Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Intelligence, Dongduk Women’s University, Seoul 02748, Korea
Kichun Nam: School of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 14, 1-16

Abstract: The present study aimed to investigate the effect of adolescents’ perceived negative evaluation of parenting on their visuo-spatial attention and mental rotation abilities. The useful field of view (UFOV) and mental rotation tasks were used to measure visuo-spatial attention and mental rotation abilities among adolescents. The experimental groups were divided into the negatively evaluating group ( M Age = 18.44, SD = 0.87, 20.7% girls) and positively evaluating group ( M Age = 18.40, SD = 0.81, 23.3% girls) based on their scores on the self-perceived parenting attitude scales. The UFOV task showed lesser accuracy of the negatively evaluating group when compared to the positively evaluating one in target perception presented in 20° visual angle, indicating a deteriorated visuo-spatial attention ability in the negatively evaluating group. In the mental rotation task, the negatively evaluating group exhibited a small trade-off effect between response times and rotation angles, which implied an impatient strategy was employed to perform the task, whereas such a trade-off was not observed in the positively evaluating group. Thus, both experimental groups differed in terms of their visual attention and mental spatial abilities. This study suggests that the reduced visuo-spatial attention and mental rotation abilities may act as precursors for serious psychological symptoms caused by the negative self-evaluation of their parents’ parenting attitudes.

Keywords: adolescent; parenting attitude; visuo-spatial attention ability; mental rotation ability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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