The Relationship of Anxiety and Stress With Working Memory Performance in a Large Non-depressed Sample

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 investiga...

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Autores principales: Lukasik, Karolina M., Waris, Otto, Soveri, Anna, Lehtonen, Minna, Laine, Matti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6351483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30728790
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00004
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author Lukasik, Karolina M.
Waris, Otto
Soveri, Anna
Lehtonen, Minna
Laine, Matti
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description 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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spelling pubmed-63514832019-02-06 The Relationship of Anxiety and Stress With Working Memory Performance in a Large Non-depressed Sample Lukasik, Karolina M. Waris, Otto Soveri, Anna Lehtonen, Minna Laine, Matti Front Psychol Psychology 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6351483/ /pubmed/30728790 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00004 Text en Copyright © 2019 Lukasik, Waris, Soveri, Lehtonen and Laine. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6351483/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00004
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