Internalising symptoms and verbal working memory in school‐age children: A processing efficiency analysis
| Autor: | Laura Visu-Petra, Cristina M. Trifan, Alexandra M. Opris, Lavinia Cheie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Short-term memory 050109 social psychology Anxiety Audiology 050105 experimental psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) medicine Humans Trait anxiety 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child General Psychology Depressive symptoms School age child Depression Working memory 05 social sciences Processing efficiency General Medicine Memory Short-Term Female medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Psychology. 54:828-838 |
| ISSN: | 1464-066X 0020-7594 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ijop.12537 |
| Popis: | The current study investigated differential contributions of internalising symptoms (state anxiety, trait anxiety, depression) to school-age children's verbal short-term (STM) and working memory (WM) span accuracy and efficiency (microanalysis of response times). Children's (N = 125, Mage = 11.44 years) STM/WM was assessed with simple/complex span tasks. Our analyses revealed that: (a) children with high levels of state anxiety displayed reduced simple span accuracy (on Word span) and poorer efficiency on both simple (preparatory intervals, interword pauses) and complex span (preparatory intervals) response time segments; (b) trait anxiety was a negative predictor of children's complex span accuracy, as well as their efficiency on both simple (word durations) and complex span (interword pauses) response time measures; (3) depressive symptoms predicted longer simple span interword pauses. Findings indicate that while all internalising symptoms were predictive of children's poorer memory search efficiency, especially during the "silent", executive intervals (interword pauses), anxiety symptoms were specifically predictive of children's impaired span accuracy and other efficiency indicators (preparatory intervals, word durations). The study highlights the differential contributions of state, trait anxiety, and depressive symptoms to STM/WM in children, emphasising the need to measure both accuracy and efficiency to assess the role that such symptoms play in children's performance. |
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