The Effects of Executive Functions and Social Cognition on Mental Health

The name of the online training will be MindZone. It consists of combined game-based social cognitive and executive functions skills, and it will be presented on the training website. There is no consensus about the length of time for the training in the literature, so the average time for the training process will be used. This means that the training will last 6 weeks, 7.5 hours in total. To satisfy the training requirement, 1.15 hours (75 mins) of play will be expected from participants each week. Before each game, a brief introduction about the game will be presented and participants will get feedback about their progress. Each participant will conduct the tasks in a different random order. After 6 weeks, a post-test will be completed, and follow-up scores will be obtained after a month. All tasks were designed according to the five intervention areas: working memory, cognitive flexibility, inhibition, cognitive empathy and affective empathy based on the literature.