Assessing the role of attentional inhibition and cognitive flexibility in convergent and divergent thinking during creative task performance.

BMC Psychol · 2026 · PMC13270686 · PMID 42057214

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approached significancep = .060so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The direct effect approached significance, − 0.196, 95% CI [–0.012, − 0.360], p = .060, while the total effect was significant, = − 0.411, 95% CI [–0.300, − 0.540], p < .001.

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a positive trendno p-value reported

Although higher cognitive flexibility (indexed by lower WCST perseverative error) showed a positive trend toward predicting CRAT accuracy, this was not statistically significant.

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