The Relationship of Anxiety and Stress With Working Memory Performance in a Large Non-depressed Sample
: Karolina M. Lukasik, Otto Waris, Anna Soveri, Minna Lehtonen, Matti Laine
Publisher: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
: 2019
Frontiers in Psychology
: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
: FRONT PSYCHOL
: ARTN 4
: 10
: 1
: 9
: 9
: 1664-1078
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00004
: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00004/full
: 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.
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