The current study aimed at measuring whether coping flexibility is a reliable and valid construct in a UK sample and subsequently investigating the association between coping flexibility, optimism, and psychological health - measured by perceived stress and life satisfaction. A UK university undergraduate student sample (N=95) completed an online questionnaire. The study is among the first to e...

Compared with the large body of literature on coping, coping flexibility has received relatively scant research attention, although more such studies have begun to emerge recently. Researchers have conceptualized coping flexibility in diverse ways: as a broad coping repertoire, a well-balanced coping profile, cross-situational variability in strategy deployment, a good strategy-situation fit, o...

Psychological flexibility is increasingly studied in various contexts including clinical studies. The construct has been hypothesized to be a major determinant of mental health. Existing measures lack context-sensitivity (e.g, implicitly measuring it as trait) and/or reference limited time frame. We developed short self-report measure that covers all facets the and context-sensitive. Data was c...

This paper investigates entrepreneurs' satisfaction. We conceptually replicate and extend Carree Verheul’s (2012) Dutch study on the drivers of satisfaction with data from Belgian entrepreneurs. Thus, we respond to need more in (social) sciences, including entrepreneurship studies. The ‘extension’ aspect contributes novel theoretical understanding empirical explanatory power Specifically, intro...

Objective: The aim of this study was performed to determine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on psychological flexibility in obese women in Isfahan, Iran. Materials and Methods: This was a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test trial with follow-up. The study population was all of the obese women in Isfahan in 2014 (BMI≥30).the sample of study was selected by conveni...

Objective: To adapt and validate the Psy-Flex for adolescent population (PsyFlex-A). The aim was to analyse PsyFlex-A factor structure, reliability, model's invariance between genders, associations PsyFlex-A, sociodemographic variables, other variables of interest. Method: sample included 309 adolescents 12 18 years old (M = 14.91) a mean 9.56 education. participants completed protocol comprisi...

Adolescence is associated with quickly changing environmental demands which require excellent adaptive skills and high cognitive flexibility. Feedback-guided adaptive learning and cognitive flexibility are driven by reward prediction error (RPE) signals, which indicate the accuracy of expectations and can be estimated using computational models. Despite the importance of cognitive flexibility d...

BACKGROUND This preliminary study examined the effectiveness of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention at improving the quality of life among cancer patients. It was hypothesised that over the course of the intervention, patients would report increased psychological flexibility through acceptance of unpleasant thoughts and feelings, and that increased psychological flexibility ...