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Panel 4. Cognitive Processes

Abstract

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Children as young as three years old demonstrate the ability for uncertainty monitoring, a metacognitive skill that requires awareness of one’s level of certainty when faced with a decision or challenge. This study explores correlations between uncertainty monitoring and resiliency in middle childhood. Uncertainty monitoring as it relates to resiliency has not previously been studied, nor has this age group been examined in relation to uncertainty monitoring before. Eighty-three 9- to 11-year-olds (M = 9.98; SD = .693) completed a researcher-created digital perceptual discrimination task (adapted from Nicholson et al., 2019), followed by a confidence judgment decision to determine uncertainty monitoring. Resiliency was measured via The Resiliency Scale for Children and Adolescents (RSCA). Significant positive correlations were found between uncertainty monitoring and sense of mastery, a component of resiliency (r = .23, p = .037). Self-efficacy, a factor under sense of mastery, was further highlighted as a relational variable to uncertainty monitoring (r = .22, p = .04). Optimism, another factor under sense of mastery, was positively associated with uncertainty monitoring (r = .25, p = .025). These results show that awareness of one’s uncertainty (uncertainty monitoring) is positively and significantly related to their approach and adaptation to challenges in their environment (resiliency).

Author information

Author	Role
Stephanie Greenquist-Marlett, Missouri State University	Presenting author
Joanna Cemore Brigden, Missouri State University	Non-presenting author

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