Development of explicit self-awareness in typical children and those with high-functioning autism.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530907
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: HOSOKAWA TORU 東北大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 名誉教授 (60091740)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SUZUKI Keita 高知大学, 人文社会教育科学系, 講師 (50582475) ; NISHIDA Mitsukiyo 北星学園大学, 社会福祉学部, 教授 (70326536)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: セルフ・アウェアネス / 発達 / 高機能自閉症

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To examine the emergence of external self, the final level of explicit self-awareness in Rochat's model, we developed two tasks and administered to typical children and those with high-functioning autism. Results indicated that (1) typically developing children were estimated to show awareness of their external-self until 4 years old, and (2) children with high-functioning autism seemed to fail to aware their external-self even at the age of 9 years old, suggesting a remarkable delay of the development of self-awareness.

Free Research Field

認知発達心理学