Extending the scope of the ‘cognitive advantage’ hypothesis: multilingual individuals show higher flexibility of goal adjustment

Greve, Werner; Koch, Martin J.; Rasche, Verena; Kersten, Kristin

doi:10.1080/01434632.2021.1922420

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“…(1) Multilingualism may encompass (or be based on) a heterogeneous and diverse experience that stimulates the development of EC, especially ER. The current study extends earlier research going beyond accommodative coping (Greve et al, 2021;Koch et al, 2023) to emotional competence, including emotion regulation and its preconditions. A second path to a possible effect on EC is based on assumptions of the "narrow" cognitive advantage: (2a) Multilingualism may positively influence cognitive abilities, which are, in turn, (2b) necessary constituents of and/or helpful resources for emotional competences.…”

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“…We, thus, assume that multilingualism might represent a diverse and heterogeneous life condition regarding linguistic, cultural, cognitive, and emotional dimensions that stimulate the development of different competences (Greve, 2023). So far, this assumption has only been tested with regard to accommodative coping (Greve et al, 2021). The goal of this paper is to test whether a similar effect can be found regarding another domain of regulatory competencesnamely, emotional competence.…”

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An emotional advantage of multilingualism

Koch,

Kersten,

Greve

2024

Bilingualism

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The goal of the current paper is to investigate effects of multilingualism regarding emotional competence (EC). We argue that there might be two paths of influence that connect multilingualism and EC. First, we assume that multilingualism represents a linguistically and culturally heterogeneous context that may stimulate the development of EC. Second, cognitions, such as executive control or divergent thinking, might be an important condition for or constituent of emotions. Since cognitive abilities are sometimes assumed to be positively influenced by multilingualism (called the cognitive resp. bilingual advantage hypothesis), multilingualism might affect EC by boosting these cognitive functions. In an initial pre-study (N = 85) we found that two EC subcomponents were significantly predicted by degree of multilingualism (DM). In a second study (N = 989), we found that DM significantly predicted EC directly and was mediated by cultural heterogeneity but not by language switching, executive functions, or divergent thinking.

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An emotional advantage of multilingualism

Koch,

Kersten,

Greve

2024

Bilingualism

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“…Thirdly, it should then be investigated in particular whether specific funding opportunities can be identified. For example, there is evidence that heterogeneous developmental conditions can be prognostically favorable for a more pronounced ability and willingness to make accommodative goal adjustments ( Greve and Thomsen, 2013 ; Thomsen and Greve, 2013 ; Greve et al, 2021 ; Koch et al, 2024 ). The promotion of accommodative skills and readiness in childhood has hardly been tested to date ( Greve et al, 2009 ); this would represent an important research desideratum.…”

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Individual differences in goal adjustment: convergence and divergence among three theoretical models

Kappes,

Greve

2024

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionIndividual differences in dealing with unattainable goals or resource-consumptive goal pursuit are conceptualized as goal adjustment processes in three theoretical approaches: accommodative coping (two-process model of developmental regulation), compensatory secondary coping (motivational theory of life-span development), and goal disengagement and goal reengagement (goal adjustment theory). The aim of this paper is to conceptually and empirically analyze convergences and divergences between the three approaches as well as their relationship with indicators of well-being and their intersections with cognitive emotion regulation.MethodsThe empirical study is based on a cross-sectional online survey (N = 433; M = 28.9 years, SD = 8.4 years; 50% female).ResultsThe conceptual analysis yields clear convergences, but also differences. Empirically, clear but partially non-redundant relationships between the concepts are found in structural equation models. Accommodative coping showed the strongest correlations with measures of well-being and cognitive emotion regulation. When all goal adjustment measures are included simultaneously as predictors of well-being, accommodation remains as the strongest predictor (and partly goal reengagement as well), while goal disengagement shows opposing relationships with most measures of well-being.DiscussionWe discuss the lessons learnt from these findings and conclude by proposing future avenues to examine goal adjustment processes.

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“…There is some first evidence that heterogeneous life circumstances actually support (at least predict) individual adaptivity (here: individual preparedness and capability of goal accommodation). For instance, Greve and Thomsen (2013; found in two studies that heterogeneous leisure activities in childhood predict flexibility of goal adjustment in adolescence, and Greve et al (2021) found that multilingualism in childhood predicts flexibility of goal adjustment in adulthood.…”

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Adaptation across the Lifespan: Towards a Processual Evolutionary Explanation of Human Development

Greve

2023

Integr. psych. behav.

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This paper argues that the project of a lifespan perspective in developmental psychology has not yet been systematically pursued. Overall, the number of age-specific papers far outweighs the number of lifespan approaches, and even approaches that focus on the lifespan as a whole are often restricted to adulthood. Further, there is a lack of approaches that examine cross-lifespan relationships. However, the lifespan perspective has brought with it a "processual turn" that suggests an examination of developmental regulatory processes that are either operative across the lifespan or develop across the lifespan. Accommodative adjustment of goals and evaluations in response to obstacles, loss, and threat is discussed as an example of such a process. Not only is it prototypical of efficacy and change of developmental regulation across the lifespan, but at the same time it makes clear that stability (e.g., of the self)—as a possible outcome of accommodation—is not an alternative to, but a variant of development. Explaining how accommodative adaptation changes, in turn, requires a broader perspective. For this purpose, an evolutionary approach to developmental psychology is proposed that not only views human development as a product of phylogenesis, but also applies the central concepts of the theory of evolution (adaptation and history) directly to ontogeny. The challenges, conditions, and limitations of such a theoretical application of adaptation to human development are discussed.

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Extending the scope of the ‘cognitive advantage’ hypothesis: multilingual individuals show higher flexibility of goal adjustment

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An emotional advantage of multilingualism

An emotional advantage of multilingualism

Individual differences in goal adjustment: convergence and divergence among three theoretical models

Adaptation across the Lifespan: Towards a Processual Evolutionary Explanation of Human Development

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