| Publications [#42341] of Adriel Boals
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- K. Klein & A. Boals (2001).
The relationship of life stress and working memory.. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, 565-579.
(last updated on 2005/10/20)
Abstract: The relationship between life stress and
working memory capacity (WM) was examined in
three studies. Participants with more life
event stress performed more poorly on Turner
and Engle's ([1989]) operation-word span WM
task, and this impairment was more pronounced
on longer operations. Life event stress also
predicted intrusion errors. Finally,
self-reports of intrusive and avoidant
thinking predicted functional WM capacity as
did the recency of negative life events. The
results are interpreted using a limited
capacity model of WM in which cognitive
representations of stressful life events
compete with task demands for attentional
resources.
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