Can adult competence of everyday problem solving be developed by learning experience?: From the perspective of cognitive flexibility

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24653174
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Educational psychology
Research Institution	Fukushima University
Principal Investigator	KOGURE Terumasa 福島大学, 地域創造支援センター, 准教授 (70343077)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords	教育心理学 / 成人教育 / 日常認知 / 認知的柔軟性 / 生涯発達 / 教育系心理学
Research Abstract	In the present research, to focus on cognitive flexibility, which is competence to take another perspective or move internal attention along the context and one of everyday problem solving competences, two questionnaires and three online-surveys were conducted to examine the relationship between adult learning and lifelong development of cognitive flexibility. The results suggest that informal and self-directed adult learners would cope with everyday problems flexibly.