High intelligence prevents the negative impact of anxiety on working memory.
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| Title: | High intelligence prevents the negative impact of anxiety on working memory. |
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| Authors: | Chuderski, Adam (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Cognition & Emotion. Nov2015, Vol. 29 Issue 7, p1197-1209. 13p. 3 Diagrams, 2 Charts. |
| Subjects: | Anxiety, Short-term memory, Confirmatory factor analysis, Cognition, Task performance |
| Abstract: | Using a large sample and the confirmatory factor analysis, the study investigated the relationships between anxiety, working memory (WM) and (fluid) intelligence. The study showed that the negative impact of anxiety on WM functioning diminishes with increasing intelligence, and that anxiety can significantly affect WM only in people below average intelligence. This effect could not be fully explained by the sheer differences in WM capacity (WMC), suggesting the importance of higher-level cognition in coping with anxiety. Although intelligence moderated the impact of anxiety on WM, it was only weakly related to anxiety. In contrast to previous studies, anxiety explained the substantial amount of WMC variance (17.8%) in less intelligent participants, butnoneof the variance in more intelligent ones. These results can be explained in terms of either increased motivation of intelligent but anxious people to cope with a WM task, or their ability to compensate decrements in WM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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