The associations between subjective and objective cognitive functioning across manic or hypomanic, depressed, and euthymic states in Chinese bipolar patients.

•About 72% of BD patients (n = 101) showed subjective cognitive deficits in all phases.•Subjective and objective cognitive functioning were weakly associated in euthymic BD.•Subjective and objective cognitive functioning did not correlate in acute illness BD.•The best predictor of subjective cognitive functioning is depressive symptoms.•Mood symptoms moderate the relationship between subjective and objective cognitions.