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The relationship between mental toughness and cognitive control: Evidence from the item‐method directed forgetting task
Author(s) -
Dewhurst Stephen A.,
Anderson Rachel J.,
Howe David,
Clough Peter J.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.3570
Subject(s) - mental toughness , psychology , forgetting , cognition , personality , association (psychology) , task (project management) , motivated forgetting , cognitive psychology , control (management) , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , psychotherapist , medicine , artificial intelligence , management , computer science , economics , athletes , physical therapy
Summary Previous research by the authors found that mental toughness, as measured by the Mental Toughness Questionnaire 48 (MTQ48; Clough, P.J., Earle, K., & Sewell, D. [2002]. Mental toughness: the concept and its measurement. In I. Cockerill (Ed.), Solutions in sport psychology [pp. 32–43]. London: Thomson Publishing), was significantly associated with performance on the list‐method directed forgetting task. The current study extends this finding to the item‐method directed forgetting task in which the instruction to Remember or Forget is given after each item in the study list. A significant positive association was found between the correct recognition of Remember words and the emotional control subscale of the MTQ48. No significant associations were observed with other measures of mental toughness or personality. The findings are discussed in terms of the relationship between mental toughness and cognitive control.