| Reference code: | PT/FB/BL-2008-136.06 |
| Location: | Arquivo PCA - Pasta 18/2008
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Title:
| Externalizing personality and executive cognitive function: A study with a non-clinical sample
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| Publication year: | 2012
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Abstract/Results:
| ABSTRACT:
Externalizing is a higher-order psychopathology factor that underpins a number of the most commonly occurring mental disorders, being directly related to acting-out behaviors and poor behavioral control. A common behavioral pattern reflected in many manifestations of externalizing is an apparent failure to learn from experience, raising the possibility that externalizing may involve a deficit in executive cognitive function. To test this possibility, we examined the influence of externalizing on performance on the Halstead Category Test. Participants scoring high on the externalizing vulnerability performed significantly worse on the “Loss of Set – Conceptual” subscale than participants scoring low. This suggests that a higher externalizing vulnerability is associated with an increased difficulty at the level of abstract concept formation and poor cognitive flexibility.
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| Accessibility: | Document does not exist in file
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Language:
| eng
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Author:
| Santos, I. M.
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Secondary author(s):
| Costa, J., Pereira, A. T., Vagos, P., Rodrigues, P., Oliveira, A., DeFilippis, N., Silva, C. F.
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Document type:
| Abstract
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Number of reproductions:
| 1
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Reference:
| Santos, I. M., Costa, J., Pereira, A. T., Vagos, P., Rodrigues, P., Oliveira, A., DeFilippis, N., & Silva, C. F. (2012). Externalizing personality and executive cognitive function: A study with a non-clinical sample. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 19 (Supplement 1), S188.
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| Indexed document: | No
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| Keywords: | Externalizing personality / Cognitive flexibility / Executive function
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