Life Stress and Performance Impairment: The Role of Off-Task Thinking

Autor:	Kitty Klein
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject Convergent thinking Information processing Performance impairment Cognition Task (project management) Developmental psychology Medical Terminology Stress (linguistics) Personality Psychology Life stress Medical Assisting and Transcription media_common
Zdroj:	Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 39:873-877
ISSN:	1071-1813 2169-5067
DOI:	10.1177/154193129503901304
Popis:	In previous research (Baradell & Klein, 1993; Klein & Barnes, 1994) self-focused attention has moderated the relationship of life stress and verbal problem solving. Stressed individuals highly aware of internal bodily changes made the most errors and used the least effective strategies. How life stress affects information processing on such tasks has not been investigated. In theories (e. g. Humphreys & Revelle, 1984; Eysenck, 1992) that relate personality variables to cognitive processes, off-task thinking is presumed to mediate the relationship between individual differences and performance. In the present study, 35 students who varied in life stress and self-focus solved complex verbal analogies. The results indicated that high levels of stress and self-focus were related to off-task thinking and that off-task thinking was negatively related to performance. However, regression analyses did not support a mediating role for off-task thinking. Rather, off-task thinking may result from poor performance, rather than vice-versa as is assumed in current models.
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