French validation of the Attentional Control Scale : Factor structure and relationships with symptoms of anxiety and depression

Eye-tracking exploration of inhibitory control in post-traumatic stress disorder: an emotional antisaccade paradigm

“…Participants have to judge how often or how much each statement applies to them. The French version of this scale was used (Blekic et al, 2018 , 2019 ).…”

Attentional Control Scale- Turkish Version: Psychometric Qualities, Factor Structure and its Comparison with Behavioral Measures of Executive Attention

“…In contrast, more recent empirical studies revealed inconsistent evidence regarding the specific relationship of shifting and focusing with different forms of psychological distress (Mills et al, 2016). Notably, several researchers reported relatively stronger associations between shifting and depression, besides similar robust connections of focusing with anxiety (Blekic et al, 2018;Judah et al, 2014;Reinhold-Dunne et al, 2013).…”

“…Several studies from the last decade translated and adapted ACS to different languages and examined the factor structure of the scale. Although no full consensus was reached regarding the number of factors (Fajkowska & Derryberry, 2010), most of those studies found a two-factor structure (Blekic et al, 2018;Blekic et al, 2023;Clauss & Bardeen, 2020;Judah et al, 2014;Michalko, 2018;Olafsson et al, 2011;Quigley et al, 2017;Verstraeten et al, 2010); however, the specific items that load on focusing and shifting factors differed across publications (Abasi et al, 2017). More specifically, Blekic et al (2023) argued that shifting items were problematic since the items seemed to correspond to both divided attention and attentional shifting.…”