Development of the Flexibility in Daily Life scale to measure multidimensional cognitive and behavioural flexibility in health and disease.
Objectives: Inflexibility of thought and behaviour is a transdiagnostic feature of many neuropsychiatric disorders and presents several empirical measurement challenges. Here, we developed and validated the Flexibility in Daily Life scale (FIDL); a novel, self‐report questionnaire, which captures ex...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Clinical Psychology Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 315 - 330 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2025
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