Irrational beliefs, obsessive attachment and anxiety are the strongest stepwise predictors of cognitive flexibility in one correlational study of university students¶

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q2 i? In stepwise regression, irrational beliefs entered first explaining 12% of variance, and the article ranks obsessive attachment and anxiety next by contribution; the 30% the article attributes to these three is, in its own stepwise steps, the cumulative figure after five variables (with negligent attachment, secure attachment and somatization), and adding anxiety raised it to 38%. → Bülent GÜNDÜZ 2013

Evidence¶

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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Stepwise regression analysis in the same 436-student correlational study. Irrational beliefs entered first (12% of variance); later steps added negligent attachment (14%), secure attachment (16%), somatization (20%), obsessive attachment (30%), anxiety (38%), depression (39%) and negative ego (40%). The article states "30% per cent of cognitive flexibility are explained by the variables of irrational beliefs, obsessed attachment and anxiety", but by its own steps 30% is the total after the fifth step, before anxiety entered, so that figure does not describe the three variables together. In the discussion it ranks the contributions after irrational beliefs as "obsessed attachment, anxiety, somatization, negligent attachment, secure attachment, depression and negative ego". No standardized coefficients are printed.

"According to the findings of stepwise regression analysis, it is found out that the variables of irrational beliefs explain 12% per cent of total variance"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Affect Regulation — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

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• Attachment styles, irrational beliefs and psychological symptoms jointly explain approximately 41% of the variance in university students' cognitive flexibility — related