scholarly journals Individual Differences in Inhibitory Control: A latent Variable Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Gärtner ◽  
Alexander Strobel
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Latent Variable Analysis ◽  
Variable Analysis

scholarly journals Individual differences in inhibitory control: A latent variable analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Gärtner ◽  
Alexander Strobel
Keyword(s):  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Matching Task ◽  
Reaction Time Difference ◽  
Latent Variable Analysis ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Speed Accuracy ◽  
Variable Analysis

Inhibitory control represents a central component of executive functions and focuses on the ability to actively inhibit or delay a dominant response to achieve a goal. Although various tasks exist to measure inhibitory control, correlations between these tasks are rather small, partly because of the task impurity problem. To alleviate this problem, a latent variable approach has been previously applied and two closely related to each other yet separable functions have been identified: prepotent response inhibition and resistance to distractor interference. The goal of our study was a) to replicate the proposed structure of inhibitory control and b) to extend previous literature by additionally accounting for speed-accuracy trade-offs, thereby potentially increasing explained variance in the investigated latent factors. To this end, 190 participants completed six inhibitory control tasks (stroop task, antisaccade task, stop-signal task, Eriksen flanker task, shape-matching task, word-naming task). Analyses were conducted using standard scores (response times) as well as inverse efficiency scores (combining response times and error rates). In line with previous studies, we found generally low zero-order correlations between the six tasks. By applying confirmatory factor analysis using standard reaction time difference scores, we were not able to replicate a satisfactory model with good fit to the data. By using inverse efficiency scores, a single latent variable response–distractor inhibition emerged that resembled previous literature, but only four out of six tasks demonstrated significant factor loadings. Our results highlight the difficulty in finding robust inter-correlations between commonly used inhibitory control tasks, even when applying a latent variable analysis and accounting for speed-accuracy trade-offs.

scholarly journals Acute alcohol effects on set-shifting and its moderation by baseline individual differences: a latent variable analysis

Addiction ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozlem Korucuoglu ◽  
Kenneth J. Sher ◽  
Phillip K. Wood ◽  
John Scott Saults ◽  
Lee Altamirano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Set Shifting ◽  
Latent Variable Analysis ◽  
Alcohol Effects ◽  
Variable Analysis

Personality risk and alcohol consumption: A latent variable analysis

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell Earleywine ◽  
Peter R. Finn ◽  
Christopher S. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Latent Variable Analysis ◽  
Variable Analysis
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