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The Relationship of Anxiety and Stress With Working Memory Performance in a Large Non-depressed Sample.
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychology; 1/23/2019, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Clinical anxiety and acute stress caused by major life events have well-documented detrimental effects on cognitive processes, such as working memory (WM). However, less is known about the relationships of state anxiety or everyday stress with WM performance in non-clinical populations. We investigated the associations between these two factors and three WM composites (verbal WM, visuospatial WM, and n-back updating performance) in a large online sample of non-depressed US American adults. We found a trend for a negative association between WM performance and anxiety, but not with stress. Thus, WM performance appears rather robust against normal variation in anxiety and everyday stress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANXIETY
SHORT-term memory
COGNITIVE analysis
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
UNILATERAL neglect
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16641078
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 134255259
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00004