Abstract

Belonging to multiple groups is an important feature of our social lives. However, it is largely unknown if it is related to individual differences in cognitive performance. Given that changing self-identities linked to each group requires cognitive operations on knowledge bases associated with each group, the extent to which people belong to multiple groups may be related to individual differences in cognitive performance. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to test if multiple group membership is related to executive function task performance. A socioeconomically diverse sample of 395 individuals in Indonesia participated in this study. Our results show that multiple group membership was positively related to the 3-back working memory performance. However, we also found that this relationship was significant only among participants with high (not median or low) SES. We also observed that Contact diversity was negatively related to working memory performance among participants with low SES. Our results show that the complexity of our social lives is related to individual differences in executive function performance, although this seems to be constrained by SES.

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Title
Multiple group membership and executive function in a socioeconomically diverse sample
Author
Goto, Nobuhiko 1 ; Kusumasondjaja, Sony 2 ; Tjiptono, Fandy 3 ; Lim, Shirley X. L. 4 ; Shee, Dexter 5 ; Hatano, Aya 6 ; Herachwati, Nuri 2 ; Schaefer, Alexandre 7 

 Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo, Japan (GRID:grid.412160.0) (ISNI:0000 0001 2347 9884) 
 Airlangga University, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Surabaya, Indonesia (GRID:grid.440745.6) (ISNI:0000 0001 0152 762X) 
 Victoria University of Wellington, School of Marketing and International Business, Wellington, New Zealand (GRID:grid.267827.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 2292 3111) 
 Université de Bourgogne, Centre Des Sciences du Goût et de L’Alimentation, CNRS, INRAE, Dijon, France (GRID:grid.5613.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 2298 9313); Karolinska Institutet, Division of Psychology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden (GRID:grid.4714.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 0626) 
 Monash University Malaysia, Department of Psychology, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Subang Jaya, Malaysia (GRID:grid.440425.3) 
 IdeaLab Inc., Tokyo, Japan (GRID:grid.440425.3) 
 Sunway University, Department of Psychology, School of Medical and Life Sciences, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia (GRID:grid.430718.9) (ISNI:0000 0001 0585 5508) 
Pages
9921
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3049082313
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.