TY - JOUR
T1 - Trait and state anxiety
T2 - Relations to executive functioning in an at-risk sample
AU - Ursache, Alexandra
AU - Raver, C. Cybele
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to: Alexandra Ursache, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, 196 Mercer St., 8th floor, New York, NY 10012, USA. E-mail: [email protected] The research reported in this publication was supported by Award [grant number R01HD046160] from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development or the National Institutes of Health. The first author’s role in this research was also supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education, through [grant number R305B080019] to New York University. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute of the US Department of Education. The Chicago School Readiness Project is not associated with The Chicago School®, which is a trademark of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Prior research with adults suggests mixed evidence for the relations of state and trait anxiety to prefrontal executive functions (EF). Trait anxiety is hypothesised to impair the efficiency of prefrontal areas and goal-directed attention and has been largely associated with poorer performance on executive functioning tasks. Fewer studies have investigated state anxiety, and the findings have been mixed. As studies of these processes in children have been limited by small sample sizes and a focus on working memory, we examine whether state and trait anxiety are associated with performance on two EF tasks in a sample of urban, low-income children, ages 9-12. Results indicated that higher trait anxiety predicted lower executive functioning on both tasks. In addition, higher state anxiety was related to better performance on the Stroop task. Results demonstrate that, consistent with the adult literature, higher trait anxiety is related to lower executive functioning in children.
AB - Prior research with adults suggests mixed evidence for the relations of state and trait anxiety to prefrontal executive functions (EF). Trait anxiety is hypothesised to impair the efficiency of prefrontal areas and goal-directed attention and has been largely associated with poorer performance on executive functioning tasks. Fewer studies have investigated state anxiety, and the findings have been mixed. As studies of these processes in children have been limited by small sample sizes and a focus on working memory, we examine whether state and trait anxiety are associated with performance on two EF tasks in a sample of urban, low-income children, ages 9-12. Results indicated that higher trait anxiety predicted lower executive functioning on both tasks. In addition, higher state anxiety was related to better performance on the Stroop task. Results demonstrate that, consistent with the adult literature, higher trait anxiety is related to lower executive functioning in children.
KW - Executive function
KW - State anxiety
KW - Trait anxiety
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U2 - 10.1080/02699931.2013.855173
DO - 10.1080/02699931.2013.855173
M3 - Article
C2 - 24228688
AN - SCOPUS:84900843225
SN - 0269-9931
VL - 28
SP - 845
EP - 855
JO - Cognition and Emotion
JF - Cognition and Emotion
IS - 5
ER -