The influence of time pressure on translation trainees’ performance: Testing the relationship between self-esteem, salivary cortisol and subjective stress response

Autor: Laura Espín López, Ana Mª Rojo López, Paula Cifuentes Férez
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Male
Time Factors
Hydrocortisone
Emotions
Social Sciences
Anxiety
Biochemistry
Cortisol
Developmental psychology
Occupational Stress
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
Stress (linguistics)
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
Attention
Lipid Hormones
Big Five personality traits
media_common
Multidisciplinary
Statistics
Self-esteem
Time limit
Clinical Psychology
Physical Sciences
Medicine
Educational Status
Regression Analysis
Female
medicine.symptom
Research Article
Science
media_common.quotation_subject
Protective factor
Psychological Stress
Research and Analysis Methods
Young Adult
Mental Health and Psychiatry
medicine
Humans
Statistical Methods
Saliva
Steroid Hormones
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Hormones
Self Concept
Trainees
People and Places
Cognitive Science
Population Groupings
Occupational stress
Self Report
Mathematics
Overconfidence effect
Neuroscience
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257727 (2021)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Translators face hectic daily schedules with deadlines they must duly meet. As trainees they receive tuition on how to work swiftly to meet them efficiently. But despite the prominent role of time pressure, its effects on the translation process are still scarcely researched. Studies point to the higher occurrence of errors under stringent time constraints. Most of these studies use key-logging or eye-tracking techniques to identify the problems encountered. But no attempt has yet been made to measure the physiological effects of time pressure in English-to-Spanish translation and their interplay with trainees’ psychological state. The present study researches the influence of time pressure on translation by exploring trainees’ physiological response (i.e., salivary cortisol) and psychological traits (i.e., self-esteem and anxiety). 33 Spanish translation trainees translated 3 English literary texts under different time pressure conditions: Text 1 (no time limit), Text 2 (10 minutes), Text 3 (5 minutes). Regression analysis results showed that higher cortisol levels during preparation predicted higher number of meaning errors in Text 1 and lower number of translated words in Text 2 and 3. Besides, higher trait anxiety emerged as predictor of lower number of translated words, but higher accuracy under extreme time constraints and in the absence of time pressure. Higher self-esteem correlated with lower levels of anxiety and lower levels of cortisol during preparation and recovery, suggesting that it may act as a protective factor against stress. And yet, the regression analysis showed that higher self-esteem predicted lower meaning and total accuracy under extreme time pressure. Besides, in our correlation analysis self-esteem was positively related to the number of translated words in Text 2 and 3. Results suggest that even if self-esteem could be a protective factor against stress, it may also have a negative effect on task performance mediated by overconfidence.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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