The roles of differentiation and integration, metacognition and emotion regulation in increasing cognitive complexity
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description: Increasing cognitive complexity is an important outcome in the field of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). This research maps factors that play a role in interventions that have raised complexity, presenting them in a moderated serial multiple mediation model. The factors include a newly-termed variable of differentiation and integration, metacognition, levels of negative affect, and emotion regulation. The model is then investigated empirically in a three-group online experiment run with participants from the Prolific participant database (N = 210). Complementing this, the model is interrogated in a real-world environment, when designing and delivering a training for mentors working with at-risk individuals. The revised model is offered to the field of cognitive complexity, while also holding insights for the fields of metacognition, affective science, emotion regulation, and P/CVE.
abstract: Increasing cognitive complexity is an important outcome in the field of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). This research maps factors that play a role in interventions that have raised complexity, presenting them in a moderated serial multiple mediation model. The factors include a newly-termed variable of differentiation and integration, metacognition, levels of negative affect, and emotion regulation. The model is then investigated empirically in a three-group online experiment run with participants from the Prolific participant database (N = 210). Complementing this, the model is interrogated in a real-world environment, when designing and delivering a training for mentors working with at-risk individuals. The revised model is offered to the field of cognitive complexity, while also holding insights for the fields of metacognition, affective science, emotion regulation, and P/CVE.
author: Baruch, Ben
language: eng
keywords: Cognitive complexity, Counter violent extremism, Decentering, Differentiation, Emotion regulation, Integration, Integrative complexity, Meta-awareness, Metacognition, Violent extremism
license: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/49a68995-6013-4141-a971-cb7086d5714e/download
license: https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/
date published: 2023-11-10
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:24:17Z
provider: Cambridge University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Cambridge

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value: 10.17863/CAM.111191