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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Cognitive Science
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1452714

COGNITIVE CONTROL: MODELLING THE IMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH

Provisionally accepted
Leon Alker Leon Alker 1,2*
  • 1 Department of Psychology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
  • 2 Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, st. franziskus hospital winterberg, winterberg, Germany

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    The current study identified and investigated four leading models of the relationships among cognitive control, mental health, and psychological disorders. The Norwegian model of cognitive control emphasises that the inability to disengage from irrelevant stimuli is related to a hyperreactive state of mind, high levels of anxiety, and deteriorated mental health. Motivational accounts of cognitive control highlight the decisive influence of perceived selfefficacy, which is positively related to mental health and negatively related to psychological disorders. Clinical-health psychological theories of cognitive control focus on the influence of cognitive control on the ability to regulate emotions. The dual competition model highlights the predominant impact of negative affect on cognitive control. This study had a crosssectional and descriptive design (N=122). Ten Preacher and Hayes mediation analyses were conducted to compare all the models. The bootstrap sample was elevated to 5,000 to reach sufficient power for the statistical analyses. In sum, the findings of this study support most models.

    Keywords: cognitive control, Mental Health, Affective Neuroscience, Computational modeling (CFD), Clinical Neuropsychology

    Received: 24 Jun 2024; Accepted: 06 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Alker. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Leon Alker, Department of Psychology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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