Exploring the relationship between psychological flexibility and self-report and task-based measures of cognitive flexibility

Grant, Ashley; Cassidy, Simon

doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2021.12.006

Cited by 10 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 56 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…However, a recent study with a large sample ( n = 246) of non-clinical, younger adults reported a small, but significant relationship ( r = −0.22) between the CFS and the WCST (perseverative errors). 98 One potential explanation as to why our results conflict with that of Grant et al 98 may be because they used different outcomes and had a much larger (and non-clinical) sample.…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 63%

“… 124 Cognitive and psychological flexibility originated from different theoretical backgrounds; cognitive flexibility arose out of the neuropsychology field, whereas psychological flexibility has its roots in behavioural psychology, mindfulness and acceptance-based techniques. While there is some empirical evidence that self-reported cognitive flexibility (as assessed via the CFS) and self-reported psychological flexibility (as assessed via the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II)) are related, 98 the specific construct that underpins the AAQ-II has recently been put into question. 125 , 126 Thus, our findings cannot be applied to the construct of psychological flexibility.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Investigating self-report and neuropsychological assessments of cognitive flexibility in people with and without persistent pain: An online, cross-sectional, observational study

Howlett,

Stanford,

Berryman

et al. 2023

British Journal of Pain

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Introduction People with persistent pain experience problems modifying their cognition and behaviours when task or environmental demands change – abilities otherwise known as cognitive flexibility. However, limitations and inconsistent results of previous studies raise concerns over the quality of that evidence. We aimed to determine whether people with and without persistent pain differ on two assessments that are commonly used to assess cognitive flexibility. We also examined the relationship between the two assessments and explored whether people with and without persistent pain are distinguishable based on their scores on these assessments. Methods Participant demographics and symptoms of anxiety and depression were assessed. Participants completed the Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI) and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). Multiple linear regression on the two outcome variables: CFI (total score) and WCST (% perseverative responses) was applied using backward stepwise selection. Both outcomes were calculated as a standardised proportion of the outcome scale and log-odds transformed to meet the model assumptions. Correlation analysis and logistic regression were used to investigate our secondary and exploratory aims. Results Data were available from 128 participants with persistent pain and 68 pain-free controls. After adjusting for covariates, no differences were found between people with and without persistent pain on either assessment of cognitive flexibility. No significant correlations were detected between the two assessments in either group. The probability of having persistent pain was also not associated with scores on either or both assessments. Conclusion ‘Cognitive flexibility’ appears similar in people with and without persistent pain.

show abstract

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 63%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating self-report and neuropsychological assessments of cognitive flexibility in people with and without persistent pain: An online, cross-sectional, observational study

Howlett,

Stanford,

Berryman

et al. 2023

British Journal of Pain

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Instead, for measures of Affective Flexibility, we considered psychophysiological signals measured during the administration of emotional imagery. This is the first time in which a direct and continuous methodology of assessment of AF—intended as physiological variability—was implemented [ 4 , 67 ].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Biomarkers of Mental Flexibility in Healthy Aging: A Computational Psychometric Study

Borghesi

Chirico

Pedroli

et al. 2023

Sensors

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Mental flexibility (MF) has long been defined as cognitive flexibility. Specifically, it has been mainly studied within the executive functions domain. However, there has recently been increased attention towards its affective and physiological aspects. As a result, MF has been described as an ecological and cross-subject skill consisting of responding variably and flexibly to environmental cognitive-affective demands. Cross-sectional studies have mainly focused on samples composed of healthy individual and of patients with chronic conditions such as Mild Cognitive Impairment and Parkinson’s, emphasizing their behavioral rigidity. Our study is the first to consider a sample of healthy older subjects and to outline physiological and psychological markers typical of mental flexibility, to identify functional biomarkers associated with successful aging. Our results reveal that biomarkers (respiratory and heart rate variability assessments) distinguished between individuals high vs. low in mental flexibility more reliably than traditional neuropsychological tests. This unveiled the multifaceted nature of mental flexibility composed of both cognitive and affective aspects, which emerged only if non-linear multi-variate analytic approaches, such as Supervised Machine Learning, were used.

show abstract

“…Subjective measures and cognitive tasks which are purported to measure the same psychological construct often don’t correlate well 52 , 53 . While some potential explanations were provided above, the conceptual relationship between parental reports of attentional dysregulation and observable cognitive deficits is difficult to precisely ascertain.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact and centrality of attention dysregulation on cognition, anxiety, and low mood in adolescents

Roberts

Sahakian

Chen

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Functional impairments in cognition are frequently thought to be a feature of individuals with depression or anxiety. However, documented impairments are both broad and inconsistent, with little known about when they emerge, whether they are causes or effects of affective symptoms, or whether specific cognitive systems are implicated. Here, we show, in the adolescent ABCD cohort (N = 11,876), that attention dysregulation is a robust factor underlying wide-ranging cognitive task impairments seen in adolescents with moderate to severe anxiety or low mood. We stratified individuals high in DSM-oriented depression or anxiety symptomology, and low in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as vice versa – demonstrating that those high in depression or anxiety dimensions but low in ADHD symptoms not only exhibited normal task performance across several commonly studied cognitive paradigms, but out-performed controls in several domains, as well as in those low in both dimensions. Similarly, we showed that there were no associations between psychopathological dimensions and performance on an extensive cognitive battery after controlling for attention dysregulation. Further, corroborating previous research, the co-occurrence of attention dysregulation was associated with a wide range of other adverse outcomes, psychopathological features, and executive functioning (EF) impairments. To assess how attention dysregulation relates to and generates diverse psychopathology, we performed confirmatory and exploratory network analysis with different analytic approaches using Gaussian Graphical Models and Directed Acyclic Graphs to examine interactions between ADHD, anxiety, low mood, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), social relationships, and cognition. Confirmatory centrality analysis indicated that features of attention dysregulation were indeed central and robustly connected to a wide range of psychopathological traits across different categories, scales, and time points. Exploratory network analysis indicated potentially important bridging traits and socioenvironmental influences in the relationships between ADHD symptoms and mood/anxiety disorders. Trait perfectionism was uniquely associated with both better cognitive performance and broad psychopathological dimensions. This work suggests that attentional dysregulation may moderate the breadth of EF, fluid, and crystalized cognitive task outcomes seen in adolescents with anxiety and low mood, and may be central to disparate pathological features, and thus a target for attenuating wide-ranging negative developmental outcomes.

show abstract

Exploring the relationship between psychological flexibility and self-report and task-based measures of cognitive flexibility

Cited by 10 publications

References 56 publications

Investigating self-report and neuropsychological assessments of cognitive flexibility in people with and without persistent pain: An online, cross-sectional, observational study

Investigating self-report and neuropsychological assessments of cognitive flexibility in people with and without persistent pain: An online, cross-sectional, observational study

Exploring Biomarkers of Mental Flexibility in Healthy Aging: A Computational Psychometric Study

Impact and centrality of attention dysregulation on cognition, anxiety, and low mood in adolescents

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About