Inflexibility in Reasoning: Comparisons of Cognitive Flexibility, Explanatory Flexibility, and Belief Flexibility Between Schizophrenia and Major Depressive Disorder

The evaluation of mechanism of Effectiveness of Behavioral Activation Therapy (BA) through Cognitive Flexibility and Emotional Flexibility on Symptoms of Women with Major Depressive Disorders

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mechanism of the effect of behavioral activation therapy (BA) through cognitive flexibility and emotional flexibility on the symptoms of women with major depressive disorder. This study was based on the single-subject design. The research sample consisted of five women with major depressive disorder (BDI-II), Beck Anxiety (BAI), Cognitive Flexi...

Running head: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE, FLEXIBILITY AND BELIEF SYSTEMS 1 The Impact of Cognitive Dissonance and Cognitive Flexibility on Belief Systems

Assisting a client to change their belief system has shown to be positively correlated with one’s mental health. Therefore, many therapists might agree that one goal of therapy is for their client to change their own belief systems in order to experience positive change. So then why, when confronted with a new experience or new information, does one individual choose to change their belief syst...

Cognitive Flexibility and Its Dimensions in Patients with Gastrointestinal Diseases

  Abstract Introduction: Gastrointestinal diseases are one of the most common and chronic non-communicable diseases that impose high stress and cost on society and the health system. Objective: The present study aimed at comparing cognitive flexibility and its dimensions between gastrointestinal patients and healthy subjects. Materials and Methods: This is a comparative analytical study. Th...

The Role of Meta-Cognitive Belief, Perceived Stress and Cognitive Flexibility in Predicting the Suicidal Thoughts of Male Adolescents

Introduction: The present study was conducted to determine the role of meta-cognitive belief, perceived stress and cognitive flexibility in predicting the suicidal thoughts of male students. Methods: The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population included all male high school adolescents in Ardabil during 2019-2020. of the population, 350 subjects were selecte...

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