ArticleBMC psychiatry2022
Gender differences in pleasure: the mediating roles of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity.
Article in BMC psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The Correlation Between Cognitive Flexibility and Learning Strategies Adopted by Medical Students.Cureus · 2023Article
- Stress and Decision-Making among Civil Aviation Pilots in India: Mediating Role of Cognitive Flexibility.Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundGender differences have been found to be associated with individuals' pleasure. Cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity might play an important role between gender differences and pleasure. This current study is to explore the mediating role of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity in the relationship between gender differences and pleasure.
methodIn this cross-sectional study, a sample of 1107 full-time university students from five colleges in Tianjin, Chinese mainland was investigated by questionnaire. All participants completed the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPs), the Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI), and the Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire (BEQ).
resultsThe results of independent T-test suggested that females reported better emotional expressivity, anticipatory pleasure and consummatory pleasure than males, whereas males had better cognitive flexibility than females. Using bootstrapping approach revealed that the partially mediation effects of cognitive flexibility on gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure, and that of emotional expressivity on gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure. Results of this present study stated that cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity play a partial mediating role in explaining gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure.
conclusionFemales had higher anticipatory and consummatory pleasure because they tend to use emotional regulation strategy to express their emotion.
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