The Relationship Between Executive Functions, Self-Reflection, and Insight Across Adulthood.

Objective: Research suggests that executive functions and metacognitive abilities, including self-reflection and insight, may share underlying mechanisms since both rely on top-down cognitive processes and require self-regulation. However, these relationships have not been thoroughly examined by emp...

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Publicado en:Experimental Aging Research Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 271 - 285
Autores principales: İlkmen, Yasemin Sohtorik, Soncu Büyükişcan, Ezgi
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May/Jun2025
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          İlkmen, Yasemin Sohtorik
          Soncu Büyükişcan, Ezgi
        affil: Department of Psychology, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkiye
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          Executive Function In Adulthood
          Reflection In Adulthood
          Self Concept In Adulthood
          Cognition In Adulthood
          Aging
          Human
          Correlational Studies
          Introspection
          Self Regulation
          Cross Sectional Studies
          Male
          Female
          Adolescence
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Aged
          Aged, 80 and Over
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Age Factors
          Memory
          Psychological Tests
          Self Report
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Aged: 65+ years
          Aged, 80 & over
          Male
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      ab: Objective: Research suggests that executive functions and metacognitive abilities, including self-reflection and insight, may share underlying mechanisms since both rely on top-down cognitive processes and require self-regulation. However, these relationships have not been thoroughly examined by empirical research. The current study investigated the relationship between insight, self-reflection, and executive functions cross-sectionally across different stages of aging. Methods: Participants were 1284 (655 men and 629 women) cognitively healthy community dwellers with an age range of 18–89 years (M = 47.91, SD = 19.83). The sample was divided into three groups based on age, e.g., the young adults (18–34 years-old), the middle-aged adults (35–59 years-old), and older adults (60 years and older). Participants completed multiple executive function tasks (including trail making, verbal fluency, Stroop, digit span) and a self-report insight and self-reflection measure individually in face-to-face sessions. Results: The results show that education, age, digit span forward, which is a measure of short-term memory and phonemic fluency were significant predictors of self-reported insight. Furthermore, insight, but not self-reflection, had significant positive correlations with short-term memory and phonemic fluency across three age groups. Conclusions: Overall, the results indicate that performance on executive function measures and self-reported self-reflection and insight are relatively independent cognitive abilities.
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