Goal adjustment and well-being after an acquired brain injury: the role of cognitive flexibility and personality traits.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The tendency to flexibly adjust goals that are hindered by chronic illness is related to indicators of wellbeing. However, cognitive flexibility is often impaired in persons with an acquired brain injury (ABI), possibly affecting the ability to flexibly adjust goals. In this study we examined whether cognitive flexibility is positively related with the ability to disengage from goals to reengage with goals in persons with ABI. Second, we explored whether goal adjustment abilities are predictive of a unique proportion of the variance inabilities are predictive of quality of life and life satisfaction after controlling for personality traits.

Method

Seventy-eight persons with an ABI completed a set of questionnaires. Goal disengagement and goal reengagement were asse

SUBMITTER: Van Bost G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9165594 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature