Working Memory, Mental Prospection, Time Orientation, and Cognitive Insight

Cinan S., Dogan A.

JOURNAL OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, cilt.34, sa.3, ss.159-169, 2013 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 34 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000111
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.159-169
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: working memory, mental prospection, cognitive insight, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES, CAPACITY, SPAN, TASK, MIND, VERSION
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This research is new in its attempt to take future time orientation, morningness orientation, and prospective memory as measures of mental prospection, and to examine a three-factor model that assumes working memory, mental prospection, and cognitive insight are independent but related higher-order cognitive constructs by using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The three-factor model produced a good fit to the data. An alternative one-factor model was tested and rejected. The results suggest that working memory and cognitive insight are distinguishable, related constructs, and that both are distinct from, but negatively associated with, mental prospection. In addition, structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that working memory had a strong positive effect on cognitive insight and a moderate negative effect on mental prospection.

This research is new in its attempt to take future time orientation, morningness orientation, and prospective memory as measures of mental prospection and examine a three-factor model assuming working memory, mental prospection, and cognitive insight are independent but related higher-order cognitive constructs by using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The three-factor model produced a good fit to the data. An alternative one-factor model was tested and rejected. The results suggest that working memory and cognitive insight are distinguishable related constructs, and that both are distinct from, but negatively associated with, mental prospection. In addition, structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that working memory had a strong positive effect on cognitive insight and a moderate negative effect on mental prospection.