Bertrams, Alex; Englert, Christoph; Dickhäuser, Oliver; Baumeister, Roy F. (2013). Role of self-control strength in the relation between anxiety and cognitive performance. Emotion, 13(4), pp. 668-680. American Psychological Association 10.1037/a0031921
Full text not available from this repository.In the present work, we examine the role of self-control resources within the relationship between anxiety and cognitive test performance. We argue that self-control is required for keeping attention away from anxiety-related worries, which would otherwise distract a person from performing on the test. In Study 1 (N = 67) and Study 2 (N = 96), we found that state anxiety was negatively related to performance of verbal learning and mental arithmetic if participants' self-control resources were depleted, but it was unrelated if participants' self-control was intact. In Study 3 (N = 99), the worry component of trait test anxiety was more strongly related to perceived distraction by worries while performing an arithmetic task for participants with depleted self-control resources than for nondepleted participants. Furthermore, distraction by worries showed to be responsible for suboptimal performance. The findings may help to clarify the anxiety-performance relationship and offer a novel approach for counteracting performance decrements associated with test anxiety.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Education > Educational Psychology 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Education |
UniBE Contributor: |
Bertrams, Alexander Gregor, Englert, Christoph |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education 100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology |
ISSN: |
1528-3542 |
Publisher: |
American Psychological Association |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Noemi Martina Casola |
Date Deposited: |
11 Mar 2015 17:14 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:42 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1037/a0031921 |
PubMed ID: |
23527509 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/64331 |
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