Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. For commercial re-use, please contact journals. This study aims to cross-sectionally investigate the impact of SCT on early social cognitive skills. Basic orienting toward social cues, joint attention, and theory of mind ToM in young children with SCT were evaluated.
About children with SCT range: 1—7 years old were included in this study, as well as 96 age-matched nonclinical controls. Eyetracking paradigms were used to investigate the eye gaze patterns indicative of joint attention skills and orienting to social interactions. Recruitment and assessment took place in the Netherlands and in the United States. Eyetracking results revealed difficulties in children with SCT in social orienting.
These difficulties were more pronounced in children aged 3 years and older, and in boys with 47,XYY. Difficulties in joint attention were found over all age groups and karyotypes. These impairments did not differ between karyotypes.
An impact of SCT on social cognitive abilities was found already at an early age, indicating the need for early monitoring and support of early social cognition. Future research should explore the longitudinal trajectories of social development in order to evaluate the predictive relationships between social cognition and outcome later in life in terms of social functioning and the risk for psychopathology.
Prevalence estimates vary from to , Berglund et al. Although the social behavioral phenotype is variable, associated social functioning might include difficulties with social interactions and social adjustment, social anxiety, and shyness. It is a core social cognitive ability, crucial in everyday life, needed to fully understand social interactions and is a prerequisite for showing social adaptive behavior, which is responsive of social feedback following interactions.
