Research suggests that abnormal performance-monitoring contributes to the etiology and
maintenance of anxious pathology. Moreover, the anxiety–performance monitoring
relationship appears to be specific to the worry dimension of anxiety. Given that anxiety (and
worry in particular) is twice as prevalent in women as men, and most studies to date have
employed small samples which are underpowered to detect sex-differences, it is possible
that sex may be an important moderator of the worry–performance-monitoring relationship …