ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Cognitive flexibility as a protective factor for empathy.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 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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- Pedagogical determinants of cognitive flexibility among pre-service school counselors in Indonesia: A multisite cross-sectional study.Journal of education and health promotion · 2026Article
- The effectiveness of culturally-focused simulation-based education on empathy development among Saudi nursing students: a quasi-experimental study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Unpacking mentalizing: The roles of age and executive functioning in self-other appraisal and perspective taking.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2025Article
- Adaptive sports programs as catalysts for social inclusion and cognitive flexibility in inclusive physical education: the mediating roles of emotional resilience and empathy.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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- Relationship between psychological resilience, cognitive flexibility and post-traumatic growth level in patients with severe sepsis treated by continuous renal replacement therapy.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Relationships between empathy, executive functions, and internalizing and externalizing symptoms in early adolescents.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
Although cognitive flexibility has always been considered essential to empathy, the relevant findings have been inconsistent. Inconsistent results may be because cognitive flexibility is a multi-level structure, while empathy is also a multilayer structure, and there are differences in how researchers define and measure cognitive flexibility. Therefore, the study explores the relationship between cognitive flexibility and empathy from a multi-dimensional perspective. This study involved 105 China students aged between 18 and 22 (
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