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Cognitive Flexibility and Social Anxiety Symptoms in University Students
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Cognitive-Social Applications of Brain Mapping, such as talent identification, neuroleadership, and neurocognitive recruitment
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Reyhaneh KalakiJouybari
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Reyhaneh KalakiJouybari - Corresponding - Presenter
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نویسنده مسئول، دانشجو کارشناسی ارشد روانشنلسی ورزشی، دانشکده علوم ورزشی و تندرستی، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران. رایانامه: ryhanhklaky@gmail.com
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Abstract
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Original Research
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Cognitive flexibility is a central component of executive functioning that enables individuals to adaptively shift between mental sets, generate alternative interpretations, and modify behavioral responses in response to changing situational demands. Reduced cognitive flexibility has been proposed as a cognitive vulnerability associated with rigid threat appraisal, heightened self-focused attention, and avoidance behaviors, which are commonly observed in individuals with elevated social anxiety. Although social anxiety has been extensively studied in relation to cognitive biases, fewer studies have directly examined its association with self-reported cognitive flexibility in non-clinical student populations. Therefore, the present study examined the association between cognitive flexibility and social anxiety symptom severity in university students.
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A cross-sectional correlational design was employed. Participants were 52 university students with a mean age of 22.10 years (SD = 10.62). Cognitive flexibility was assessed using the Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI). Social anxiety symptom severity was measured using the Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN), a self-report instrument designed to assess the severity of symptoms consistent with social anxiety. Pearson correlation analysis was used to examine the association between total scores of cognitive flexibility and social anxiety symptoms, with statistical significance set at p < .05. Participation was voluntary and informed consent was obtained.
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The results indicated that cognitive flexibility was not significantly associated with social anxiety symptom severity (r = .077, p = .589, N = 52). The observed correlation was positive but negligible in magnitude, suggesting minimal overlap between self-reported cognitive flexibility and overall social anxiety symptom severity in this sample.
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The findings did not support a significant relationship between cognitive flexibility and social anxiety symptom severity in university students. This may reflect sample characteristics, restricted variability in self-report measures, or the possibility that social anxiety symptoms are more strongly related to other cognitive mechanisms such as attentional bias, interpretation bias, or emotion regulation strategies. Future research using larger and more diverse samples, multidimensional symptom analyses, and behavioral or neurocognitive measures is recommended to further clarify the cognitive correlates of social anxiety.
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cognitive flexibility; social anxiety; executive functions; Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI); Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN); university students
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