Higher irrational beliefs, obsessive attachment and anxiety accompany lower cognitive flexibility, while negligent attachment shows an unexpected positive relationship¶
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q2 i? The article reports that excesses of irrational beliefs, obsessive attachment and anxiety accompany declining cognitive flexibility, and that negligent attachment related positively to flexibility, a finding the authors call thought provoking. → Bülent GÜNDÜZ 2013
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Bülent GÜNDÜZ 2013¶
Bülent GÜNDÜZ. (2013). The Contributions of Attachment Styles, Irrational Beliefs and Psychological Symptoms to the Prediction of Cognitive Flexibility. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 13(4), 2079-2085. https://doi.org/10.12738/estp.2013.4.1702
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Interpretation of the regression results in the Results section of the 436-student study. The Discussion separately notes "a positive relationship between negligent attachment and flexibility is thought provoking" and links autonomy in negligent attachment to solving problems alone. The word cause is the article's own; the design is correlational.
"it can be said that the excesses of these three variables cause the cognitive flexibility to decline"
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Related Claims¶
- Irrational beliefs, obsessive attachment and anxiety are the strongest stepwise predictors of cognitive flexibility in one correlational study of university students — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Attachment styles, irrational beliefs and psychological symptoms jointly explain approximately 41% of the variance in university students' cognitive flexibility — related
- Hostility and afraid attachment do not meaningfully predict cognitive flexibility, while the other variables do — related
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Higher irrational beliefs, obsessive attachment and anxiety accompany lower cognitive flexibility, while negligent attachment shows an unexpected positive relationship |
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Higher irrational beliefs, obsessive attachment and anxiety accompany lower cognitive flexibility, while negligent attachment shows an unexpected positive relationship |
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