Anxiety and working memory capacity: A meta-analysis and narrative review.

TP Moran - Psychological bulletin, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Cognitive deficits are now widely recognized to be an important component of anxiety. In
particular, anxiety is thought to restrict the capacity of working memory by competing with …

A meta-analysis of the relationship between anxiety and attentional control

R Shi, L Sharpe, M Abbott - Clinical psychology review, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Attentional Control Theory (ACT)(Eysenck & Derakshan, 2011) proposes that
attention control (AC) deficits are central to the development of anxiety. This meta-analysis …

Stress‐buffering role of social support during COVID‐19

E Szkody, M Stearns, L Stanhope… - Family process, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In order to reduce the high infection rate of COVID‐19, individuals began to engage in self‐
isolation amid a time of uncertainty and worry. Given that social support can be protective …

Network analysis of depression and anxiety symptom relationships in a psychiatric sample

C Beard, AJ Millner, MJC Forgeard, EI Fried… - Psychological …, 2016 - cambridge.org
BackgroundResearchers have studied psychological disorders extensively from a common
cause perspective, in which symptoms are treated as independent indicators of an …

Resolving ambiguity in emotional disorders: The nature and role of interpretation biases

CR Hirsch, F Meeten, C Krahé… - Annual review of clinical …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
People with emotional disorders, such as social anxiety disorder (SAD), generalized anxiety
disorder (GAD), and depression, demonstrate a consistent tendency, or bias, to generate …

Cognitive resilience to psychological stress in military personnel

A Flood, RJ Keegan - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Military personnel often perform complex cognitive operations under unique conditions of
intense stress. This requirement to perform diverse physical and mental tasks under stress …

The role of attention control in complex real-world tasks

C Draheim, R Pak, AA Draheim, RW Engle - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2022 - Springer
Working memory capacity is an important psychological construct, and many real-world
phenomena are strongly associated with individual differences in working memory …

Generalized Anxiety Disorder, worry and attention to threat: A systematic review

H Goodwin, J Yiend, CR Hirsch - Clinical psychology review, 2017 - Elsevier
Among anxious populations, attention has been demonstrated to be preferentially biased to
threatening material compared to neutral or other valenced material. Individuals who have …

A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain's attentional networks?

MW Eysenck, JS Moser, N Derakshan… - Cognition and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Attentional control theory (ACT) was proposed to account for trait anxiety's effects on
cognitive performance. According to ACT, impaired processing efficiency in high anxiety is …

Executive function and other cognitive deficits are distal risk factors of generalized anxiety disorder 9 years later

NH Zainal, MG Newman - Psychological medicine, 2018 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveThe cognitive model (Hirsch & Mathews, 2012) and attentional control theory
(Eysenck & Derakshan, 2011) postulate that compromised executive function (EF) and other …