This study examined the effects of work schedule flexibility and the spillover of work stress to family life on the health of parents of adult children with serious mental illness (SMI). We compared 100 parents of adult children with SMI to 500 parents with nondisabled adult children using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. The detrimental impact on health of a lack of work flexibility...

This is the first attempt of empirical investigation of language mediated concept activation (LMCA) in bilingual memory as a cognitive mechanism facilitating divergent thinking. Russian-English bilingual and Russian monolingual college students were tested on a battery of tests including among others Abbreviated Torrance Tests for Adults assessing divergent thinking traits and translingual prim...

Cognitive flexibility is a central component of executive functions that allow us to behave meaningful in an ever changing environment. Here, we support a distinction between two different types of cognitive flexibility, shifting flexibility and spreading flexibility, based on independent underlying mechanisms commonly subsumed under the ability to shift cognitive sets. We use a homonym related...

Silvina P. Limandri,1,2 Alejo C. Carreras,1,3,* Rita D. Bonetto,1,4 and Jorge C. Trincavelli1,2 1Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientı́ficas y Técnicas, C1033AAJ Buenos Aires, Argentina 2Facultad de Matemática, Astronomı́a y Fı́sica, UNC, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina 3Instituto de Investigaciones en Tecnologı́a Quı́mica, UNSL, CC290–5700 San Luis, Argentina 4Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en C...

This paper explores the perceptions of employees of different ages regarding the flexibility they need at work (flexibility fit) and their engagement with work. Using 49,209 observations representing 183,454 employees in 22 different companies, we estimated a hierarchical linear model (HLM) to explain variation in employee engagement as a function of flexibility fit and age. Although flexibilit...