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Roles of trait resilience, flexibility, and volitional self-control in social adaptation: An fMRI study
INTRODUCTION: Resilience and cognitive flexibility are considered as pre-adaptive traits that help individuals to deal with environmental and social distress. Although they may alleviate emotional impulses and/or support volitional self-control (VSC), these cognitive mechanisms remain insufficiently...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9480132/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1945 |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Resilience and cognitive flexibility are considered as pre-adaptive traits that help individuals to deal with environmental and social distress. Although they may alleviate emotional impulses and/or support volitional self-control (VSC), these cognitive mechanisms remain insufficiently explored. OBJECTIVES: To better understand resilience and flexibility, we built a mechanistic framework to explain variations in socially adaptive responses under distressing situations (cooperation dilemma) using economic and social decision-making paradigms. METHODS: Twenty-four university students (7 females) were enrolled. We used ego-resiliency (ER) and Machiavellian (Mach) questionnaires to measure resilience and flexibility, and applied third-party punishment (TPP) and ultimatum game (UG), as well as moral dilemma (MD) tasks to derive VSC-associated brain activity using 3T-functional magnetic resonance imaging. Mediation analysis was used to investigate whether these pre-adaptive trait levels explain cooperative decision-making (invested sum in TPP and acceptance rate of unfair offers in UG), together with VSC-associated brain activity during MD. The regions of interest included the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and temporoparietal junction (TPJ). RESULTS: Pre-adaptive traits were a statistically significant mediator for two different models. There was an indirect effect of 1) ER on the relationship between OFC activity strength and TPP scores, and 2) Mach on the relationship between DLPFC/TPJ and UG (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Although recruitment is still ongoing, our results suggested that trait resilience and flexibility may help other-regarding and goal-directed motivation shifts. They may align self-interests with collective interests and support VSC, thereby adjusting peoples’ behaviors within social contexts and cultivating social intelligence. DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. |
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spelling | pubmed-94801322022-09-29 Roles of trait resilience, flexibility, and volitional self-control in social adaptation: An fMRI study Tei, S. Fujino, J. Eur Psychiatry Abstract INTRODUCTION: Resilience and cognitive flexibility are considered as pre-adaptive traits that help individuals to deal with environmental and social distress. Although they may alleviate emotional impulses and/or support volitional self-control (VSC), these cognitive mechanisms remain insufficiently explored. OBJECTIVES: To better understand resilience and flexibility, we built a mechanistic framework to explain variations in socially adaptive responses under distressing situations (cooperation dilemma) using economic and social decision-making paradigms. METHODS: Twenty-four university students (7 females) were enrolled. We used ego-resiliency (ER) and Machiavellian (Mach) questionnaires to measure resilience and flexibility, and applied third-party punishment (TPP) and ultimatum game (UG), as well as moral dilemma (MD) tasks to derive VSC-associated brain activity using 3T-functional magnetic resonance imaging. Mediation analysis was used to investigate whether these pre-adaptive trait levels explain cooperative decision-making (invested sum in TPP and acceptance rate of unfair offers in UG), together with VSC-associated brain activity during MD. The regions of interest included the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and temporoparietal junction (TPJ). RESULTS: Pre-adaptive traits were a statistically significant mediator for two different models. There was an indirect effect of 1) ER on the relationship between OFC activity strength and TPP scores, and 2) Mach on the relationship between DLPFC/TPJ and UG (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Although recruitment is still ongoing, our results suggested that trait resilience and flexibility may help other-regarding and goal-directed motivation shifts. They may align self-interests with collective interests and support VSC, thereby adjusting peoples’ behaviors within social contexts and cultivating social intelligence. DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. Cambridge University Press 2021-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9480132/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1945 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstract Tei, S. Fujino, J. Roles of trait resilience, flexibility, and volitional self-control in social adaptation: An fMRI study |
title | Roles of trait resilience, flexibility, and volitional self-control in social adaptation: An fMRI study |
title_full | Roles of trait resilience, flexibility, and volitional self-control in social adaptation: An fMRI study |
title_fullStr | Roles of trait resilience, flexibility, and volitional self-control in social adaptation: An fMRI study |
title_full_unstemmed | Roles of trait resilience, flexibility, and volitional self-control in social adaptation: An fMRI study |
title_short | Roles of trait resilience, flexibility, and volitional self-control in social adaptation: An fMRI study |
title_sort | roles of trait resilience, flexibility, and volitional self-control in social adaptation: an fmri study |
topic | Abstract |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9480132/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1945 |
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