MAKQ strategy knowledge, but not the self-perception scales, converges with behavioural inhibitory control on the Go-No-Go task¶

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q2 i3 Students reporting more strategies made fewer commission errors (r = −.40) and showed lower reaction-time variability/Tau (r = −.34) on Go-No-Go; control and monitoring subscales were not associated with behavioural task performance. → Mulvihill 2025

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Mulvihill 2025¶

Mulvihill, A., Matthews, N., Chidley, K., Macmahon, S., Armitage, K. L., Sherlock, D., Dux, P. E., & Carroll, A. (2025). The meta-attention knowledge questionnaire (MAKQ): a new instrument for investigating meta-attention in a young adolescent sample. Metacognition and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-025-09433-1

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Study Two (N = 83) correlating MAKQ dimensions with computerised behavioural attention tasks (Go-No-Go, Flanker, PRP). Strategy knowledge related to inhibitory control with r = −.40 (exceeding the |r| ≥ .37 threshold) but "not distractor inhibition or multitasking ability"; the self-perception subscales showed no significant associations.

"students who reported a greater number of metacognitive strategies to self-regulate attention made fewer errors, r = −.40, p = < 0.001, and demonstrated lower reaction time variability (i.e., Tau), r = −.34, p =.002, on the Go-No-Go task. The MAKQ meta-attention control and meta-attention monitoring subscales were not associated with student performance on behavioural attentional tasks."

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