OBJECTIVE Mephedrone has been recently made illegal in Europe, but little empirical evidence is available on its impact on human cognitive functions. We investigated acute and chronic effects of mephedrone consumption on drug-sensitive cognitive measures, while also accounting for the influence of associated additional drug use and personality features. METHOD Twenty-six volunteers from the g...

introduction: executive functions, including inhibition and flexibility are important for many of human behavior. hence, emphasis has led to interventions to improved executive function. the aim of this study was examination of impact of cognitive inhibition training on flexibility performance of student with learning disability. materials and methods: the design of this study was a pretest-pos...

OBJECTIVE: This study involves the initial validation of the Short Schema Mode Inventory (SMI) in Italy. A total of 109 Axis II patients and 241 controls participated in the study. METHOD: Confirmatory factor analysis on SMI data to evaluate a measurement model of 14 factors using LISREL 8.80 was performed. Assessment of fit was based on CFI, NNFI, SRMR, RMSEA and Chi-square/df ratio. Reliabili...

Objective: Metacognition is a concept that refers to the awareness and control of individuals’ cognitive processes. In this regard, metacognitive processes may promote flexibility. The present study investigates impact metacognitions on adults’ psychological health mediating role flexibility through bootstrap analysis. Method: sample comprised 212 university students. All volunteers had no hist...

A psychometrically sound measurement instrument is crucialy in understanding needed athletes’ psychological profile. Among indices of a psychometrically sound instrument are its factor structure and internal consistency. The present study examined the factorial validity and reliability of the Malaysian version of the Revised Competitive State Anxiety Inventory 2 using confirmatory factor analys...

Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the validity structural model that is composed emotion regulation, early maladaptive schemas, cognitive flexibility and rumination.Design/Methodology/Approach: This carried out with 454 students (%63.2 female, %36.8 male). data used in adopted from Personal Information Form, Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form 3, Emotion Regulation Qu...

Objective This study investigated the role of cognitive flexibility and temperament as predictors academic performance, in children care from a community sample, longitudinally. Also, it examined mediating child’s relationship between well between-group differences.Method Participants were 46 48 aged 6 to 10 years. Cognitive flexibility, temperament, performance assessed with Raven’s Colored Pr...