scholarly journals The relationship between fluid intelligence and learning potential: Is there an interaction with attentional control?

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Filičková ◽  
Ivan Ropovik ◽  
Monika Bobaková ◽  
Iveta Kovalčíková
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
Learning Potential ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
General Ability ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderate Relationship

AbstractThe main aim of the study was to explore the relationship between fluid intelligence (gf), attentional control (AC), and learning potential (LP), and to investigate the interaction effect between gf and AC on LP. The sample comprised 210 children attending the fourth grade of a standard elementary school. It was hypothesized that the extent of the association between gf and LP depends on the level of attentional control, so that a low level of AC would weaken or possibly break that link, while a high level of AC would facilitate the employment of fluid general ability in learning situations. The results show that there was a moderate relationship between the measures of gf and LP, while gf was not found to be related to AC. Regarding the hypothesized interaction effect, the data suggested that the relationship between learning potential and fluid intelligence is invariant regarding the level of attentional control in the sample. Possible reasons for the lack of a moderation effect are discussed.

scholarly journals The effect of supervisors’ abusive supervision on organizational cynicism

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-248
Author(s):  
HyunSun Park ◽  
HyunSun Chung ◽  
DongGun Park
Keyword(s):  
Future Study ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Abusive Supervision ◽  
Performance Level ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Mediated Moderation ◽  
Organizational Cynicism ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this present study was to investigate the predictors of an interaction effect between supervisors’ abusive supervision and work performance level, especially focused on the relationship to employee’s organizational cynicism. In addition, this study examined the mediated moderation effect of supervisors’ work performance level through employee’s silence. The results from 300 participants provided evidence that (1) the interaction effect of supervisors’ abusive supervision with work performance level was positively related to organizational cynicism, (2) employee’s silence mediated the relationship between the interaction effect of supervisors’ abusive supervision with work performance level and organizational cynicism. Based on the results, implications of these findings, limitations and future study direction were discussed in general discussion.

Attentional focus moderates the relationship between attention to threat bias and delusion-like experiences in healthy adults

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Prochwicz ◽  
J. Kłosowska
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Control ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Attentional Focus ◽  
Healthy Adults ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Threat Bias ◽  
General Ability ◽  
Moderation Model ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractBackgroundThe role of cognitive biases in delusion and delusion-like experiences has been widely investigated in recent years. However, little is known about individual differences, which may influence association between cognitive biases and formation of delusional beliefs. The aim of this study was to examine the moderating effect of self-reported attentional control on the relationship between attention to threat bias (ATB) and delusion-like experiences (DLEs) in healthy adults.MethodsParticipants (n = 138) completed the Davos Assessment of the Cognitive Biases Scale (DACOBS), the Attentional Control Scale (ACS) and the Peters et al. Delusions Inventory (PDI). The moderation analysis was performed to check the influence of different components of attentional control (i.e. general ability to allocate attention, focusing, shifting and divide attention) on the interplay between ATB and DLEs.ResultsThe results supported the moderation model. Specifically, we found that a higher level of ability to focus attention is associated with a stronger effect of attention to threat bias on the overall frequency of DLEs. Our results indicate that ATB contributes to the number of DLEs only in individuals with high and moderate capacity to focus attention, whereas in those who scored low on the ACS focusing attention subscale, the presence of attentional bias does not influence the frequency of DLEs.ConclusionsOur findings show that the individual difference variable, such as ability to voluntarily focus attention, may moderate the relationship between attention to threat bias and delusion-like experiences in healthy adults.

scholarly journals Can Pets Replace Children? The Interaction Effect of Pet Attachment and Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Fertility Intention

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8610
Author(s):  
Zhen Guo ◽  
Xiaoxing Ren ◽  
Jinzhe Zhao ◽  
Liying Jiao ◽  
Yan Xu
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Fertility Intention ◽  
Pet Attachment ◽  
Subjective Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Subjective Ses

A growing number of young people tend to regard their pets as their surrogate children, yet research examining the relationship between pet attachment and fertility intention remains scarce. Moreover, individuals’ fertility intention is affected by economic resources. Therefore, we conducted two studies to examine the interaction effect of pet attachment and subjective socioeconomic status (SES) on childbearing-aged individuals’ fertility intention. In Study 1, we utilized questionnaires to measure Chinese pet owners’ pet attachment, subjective SES, and fertility intention. In Study 2, participants’ pet attachment was experimentally manipulated by reading articles about the benefits of petkeeping. The results of the two studies consistently demonstrated that the effect of pet attachment on fertility intention was moderated by subjective SES. Specifically, pet attachment was negatively associated with fertility intention when individuals had a high level of subjective SES, whereas this effect disappeared when individuals had low subjective SES. These findings suggest an explanation for why individuals with high subjective SES delay or even opt out of childbearing. The limitations and implications of the current study are discussed.

scholarly journals Time course of attentional bias to painful facial expressions and the moderating role of attentional control: an eye-tracking study

2019 ◽  
pp. 204946371986687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Mazidi ◽  
Mohsen Dehghani ◽  
Louise Sharpe ◽  
Behrooz Dolatshahi ◽  
Seyran Ranjbar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Pain Catastrophizing ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pain Patients

Introduction: This study investigated the time course of attention to pain and examined the moderating effect of attentional control in the relationship between pain catastrophizing and attentional bias in chronic pain patients. Methods: A total of 28 patients with chronic pain and 29 pain-free individuals observed pictures of pain, happy and neutral facial expressions while their gaze behaviour was recorded. Pain intensity and duration, anxiety, depression, stress, attentional control and pain catastrophizing were assessed by questionnaires. Results: In all subjects, the pattern of attention for pain faces was characterized by initial vigilance, followed by avoidance. No significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of orientation towards the stimuli, the duration of first fixation, the average duration of fixation or number of fixations on the pain stimuli. Attentional control moderated the relationship between catastrophizing and overall dwell time for happy faces in pain patients, indicating that those with high attentional control and high catastrophizing focused more on happy faces, whereas the reverse was true for those with low attentional control. Conclusion: This study supported the vigilance–avoidance pattern of attention to painful facial expressions and a moderation effect of attentional control in the association between pain catastrophizing and attentional bias to happy faces among pain patients.

scholarly journals Interaction Effects of Religiosity Level on the Relationship between Religion and Willingness to Donate Organs

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Sung Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Organ Donation ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
The Body ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Willingness To Donate ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to investigate the interaction effect of religiosity level on the relationship between religion and willingness to donate organs. Prior studies have suggested that a high level of religiosity indicates a high level of willingness to donate organs. However, these previous works ignore the interaction effect of the level of religiosity and the doctrinal characteristics of each religion regarding one’s own body preservation. Organ donation is an act of transplanting part of one’s own body after death to another person and is influenced by the viewpoint of the post-mortem world and the attitude toward the preservation of the body. Therefore, this study analyzes the effects of religious characteristics and belief levels on the relationship between religion and organ donation. Results show that Christianity, such as Catholicism and Protestantism, positively affects the willingness to donate organs as compared with Buddhism. Religiosity level also exerts an interaction effect that strengthens the relationship between Christianity and willingness to donate organs.

What matters in the relationship between mentoring and job-related stress? The moderating effects of protégés’ traditionality and trust in mentor

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 608-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Qian ◽  
XiaoSong Lin ◽  
Zhuo R Han ◽  
Zhen X Chen ◽  
Jay M Hays
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Large Company ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
High Level ◽  
Job Related Stress ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
What Matters

AbstractMentoring received by protégés has been shown to play an important role in relieving protégés’ job-related stress. However, literature on the relationship between mentoring and job-related stress has yielded mixed and inconclusive results. Our research seeks to reconcile the conflicting implications by examining protégés’ individual traditionality and trust in mentor as moderators on the relationship between mentoring and job-related stress. We tested the hypotheses with data from a sample of 210 protégés from a large company in China. Results of our two-way and three-way interaction effect tests revealed that: (1) traditionality moderated the negative relationship between mentoring and job-related stress in such a way that the relationship was stronger for protégés with higher rather than lower traditionality; (2) the influence that mentoring had on job-related stress was strongest for protégés with both high traditionality and a high level of trust in mentor.

scholarly journals Attentional control and its relationship to the accuracy of some types of basketball shooting for Iraqi youth club’s players

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 0085
Author(s):  
علياء محمد علي ◽  
Dr. Intisar Uaid
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Control ◽  
Attentional Focus ◽  
Basketball Players ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Attentional Shift ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Basketball Shooting

The importance of this study is reflected in the fact that it is an attempt to identify attentional control and its relationship to the accuracy of some types of basketball shooting for youth players for Iraqi Premier League clubs for youth for the season (2020-2021). The problem of the research is to identify the level of some mental abilities, including attentional control, represented by attentional focus, attentional shift and attentional flexibility and their relationship to the accuracy of some types of basketball shooting for the Iraqi players of youth clubs. The study aimed to identify the relationship between attentional control and the accuracy of the performance of some types of basketball shooting for youth basketball players for the 2020-2021 season. The two researchers adopted the descriptive curriculum in a survey style and correlational relationships. The research community was determined by the Iraqi youth basketball players, who numbered (160) out of (16) clubs and these clubs are (Al-Amarah, Dijlah, Dhi Qar, Samawah, Al-Kut, Al-Sharqiya, Nasiriyah, Baghdad, Al-Mina, Al-Karkh, Al-Ittihad, Al-Naft, Adhamiya, Al-Shurta, Al-Tadamon, Naft Al-Janoub) and then a sample of (50) players selected in a random way and they are club players of (Al-Amarah, Baghdad, Al-Karkh, Al-Naft, Al-Adhamiya) and they were tested on the attentional control scale and after processing the results, it was found that some of the young basketball players have a high level of attentional control and the accuracy of performing some types of shooting in youth basketball. Therefore, the two researchers recommend the necessity of paying attention to mental processes, including (attentional focus, attentional shift, attentional flexibility), as well as adopting the attentional control scale as tools to identify the level of some of the mental abilities that players possess

Standards for Educational Leaders as Correlate to Strategic Adaptation of Elementary School Heads

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
MARGIE E. RODADO ◽  
ELLEINE ROSE A. OLIVA
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Educational Standards ◽  
Strategic Adaptation ◽  
Correlational Method ◽  
High Level ◽  
Adaptation Practices ◽  
School Heads ◽  
The Relationship

School heads should engage their tasks under conditions and policies that aid them in meeting expectations. It is essential for school heads to take into account factors such as intending leaders, early career and mid and late career and, dimensions of the program. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship standards for educational leaders to strategic adaptation of elementary school heads. The study utilized the descriptive-correlational method, validated questionnaires, mean and Pearson r. Results of the study revealed a high level of standards for educational leaders and a high level of school heads strategic adaptation in areas of inviting change, collaborative planning and problem solving. The study further revealed a significant relationship between standards for educational leaders and strategic adaptation of school heads and among the standards for educational leaders included in the study, the ethics and integrity was found to be most manifested by the school heads. With the said result, the school management should adopt some measures to improve the level of their educational standards in relation to their strategic adaptation practices. Teachers should continue to evaluate regularly the strengths and weaknesses of their school heads.Keywords: Education, educational leaders, strategic adaptation, school heads, Correlation, Philippines

scholarly journals The Interaction Effect of Information Systems of Shipping and Logistics Firms and Managers’ Support for Blockchain Technology on Cooperation with Shippers for Sustainable Value Creation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4493
Author(s):  
Hee-sung Bae
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Sustainable Value ◽  
High Level ◽  
Logistics Process ◽  
The Relationship

Firms apply new technology to value creation. In particular, blockchain technology increases transparency and stability of shipping and logistics firms and this is connected with a high level of collaboration with shippers. In this regard, the objective of this study is to verify the interaction effect of information systems of shipping and logistics firms and managers’ support for blockchain technology on cooperation with shippers. To achieve the objective, this study identified variables based on prior research and analyzed the data collected by a survey. The results are as follows. First, information systems as a resource of shipping and logistics firms have a positive effect on cooperation with shippers. To enhance the strategic resource, they increase cooperation with shippers based on learning and logistics process improvement. Therefore, the relationship between the information systems and cooperation with shippers can be explained as a resource-based view. Second, there is the interaction effect of the information systems and managers’ support for blockchain technology on the cooperation and this can be explained as a resource-based view. Information systems are resources of shipping and logistics firms, and managers should encourage and reward staff for using new technology such as blockchains, followed by a high level of cooperation with shippers.

Attentional Control and Performance Across Increasing Degrees of Unreliable Automation

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1238-1241
Keyword(s):  
Task Performance ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Out Of The Loop ◽  
And Performance ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Task

Automation is becoming increasingly pervasive across various technological domains. As this trend continues, work must be done to understand how humans interact with these automated systems. However, individual differences can influence performance during these interactions, particularly as automation becomes more complex, potentially leaving operators out-of-the-loop. Much of the current research investigates the role of working memory and performance across low and high levels of unreliable automation. There is little work investigating the connection between other high-level cognitive processes such as attentional control and performance. Foroughi et al. (2019) found a positive correlation between attentional control and task performance. However, they only included a low-level form of automation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between attentional control and performance using increasing degrees of unreliable automation. Our results demonstrated a positive correlation between attentional control and performance using high-level unreliable automation.

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