A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
The Relationship of Anxiety and Stress With Working Memory Performance in a Large Non-depressed Sample
Authors: Karolina M. Lukasik, Otto Waris, Anna Soveri, Minna Lehtonen, Matti Laine
Publisher: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
Publication year: 2019
Journal: Frontiers in Psychology
Journal name in source: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Journal acronym: FRONT PSYCHOL
Article number: ARTN 4
Volume: 10
First page : 1
Last page: 9
Number of pages: 9
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00004
Web address : https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00004/full
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/39178068
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.
Keywords:
healthy adults
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