Compression of Cognitive Flexibility and Adjustment of Students

Objectives: the aim of this research was to compare cognitive flexibility and adjustment between twogroups of students with developmental coordination disorder (dcd) and typically developing students(tds).method: fifty students with dcd and 50 tds were chosen from 12 primary schools. thedevelopmental coordination disorder questionnaire (dcd-q), adjustment inventory for schoolstudents (aiss) and wisconsin card sorting test (wcst) were used to measure the research variables.results: the results of the multivariate analysis of variance (m-anova) showed that the mean scores ofcognitive flexibility, emotional, educational and social adjustment were significantly higher in thestudents with dcd (p < 001). the results of multivariate regression analysis also showed that a 25%variance in cognitive flexibility and adjustment that can explain the variance of dcd in people with sucha disorder (p < .001).conclusions: the results of the present study provide further evidence on low cognitive flexibility andadjustment observed in students with dcd.