Internal consistency and test–retest reliability of an affective task-switching paradigm.

Affective flexibility refers to the flexible adaptation of behavior or thought given emotionally relevant stimuli, tasks, contexts, and has been associated with efficiency emotion regulation dealing stress adversity. Experimentally, individual differences in affective have measured as behavioral costs (response times, errors rates) switching between neutral tasks. However, task measures can only be treated trait-like characteristics if they sufficient psychometric quality. We report an analysis test-retest reliability (interval 2 weeks) well internal consistencies switch task-switching paradigm. This paradigm elicits strong response time for both but higher when than gender task. These asymmetric suggest dominance emotional rule. Reliability analyses indicated excellent consistency estimates (Spearman-Brown corrected r = .92 directions) good reliabilities (ICC(2,1) .78 .82, respectively) time-based costs. Effect sizes were substantially lower calculated from error rates, which is consistent previous literature discussing properties task-based cognitive measures. still acceptable valence-specific costs, potentially due trial numbers per cell increasing granularity analysis. In conclusion, our results indicate that are well-suited measure, thus may a valuable proxy assessing flexibility. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).