ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
The Effects of Emotional Working Memory Training on Trait Anxiety.
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- Does Emotional Working Memory Training Ameliorate Anxiety and Depression? A Meta-Analytic Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The Reflective Mind of the Anxious in Action: Metacognitive Beliefs and Maladaptive Emotional Regulation Strategies Constrain Working Memory Efficiency.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
- The effects of working memory training on attention deficit, adaptive and non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation of Chinese children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Changes in affective control covary with changes in mental health difficulties following affective control training (AffeCT) in adolescents.Psychological medicine · 2024Article
- Trait Anxiety, Emotion Regulation, and Metacognitive Beliefs: An Observational Study Incorporating Separate Network and Correlation Analyses to Examine Associations with Executive Functions and Academic Achievement.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of a Smartphone-Based, Multisession Interpretation-Bias Modification for Anxiety: Positive Intervention Effects and Low Attrition.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The association between working memory, teacher-student relationship, and academic performance in primary school children.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Tai Chi exercise improves working memory capacity and emotion regulation ability.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Social Media Usage, Working Memory, and Depression: An Experimental Investigation among University Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundTrait anxiety is a pervasive tendency to attend to and experience fears and worries to a disproportionate degree, across various situations. Decreased vulnerability to trait anxiety has been linked to having higher working memory capacity and better emotion regulation; however, the relationship between these factors has not been well-established.
objectiveThis study sought to determine if participants who undergo emotional working memory training will have significantly lower trait anxiety post-training. The study also sought to determine if emotion regulation mediated the relationship between working memory training and trait anxiety.
methodAn experimental group comprising of 49 participants underwent 20 days of computerized emotional working memory training, which involved viewing a continuous stream of emotionally-charged content on a grid, and then remembering the location and color of items presented on the grid. The control group comprised of 51 participants.
resultsParticipants of the experimental group had significantly lower trait anxiety compared to controls, post-training. Subsequent mediation analysis determined that working memory training capacity gains were significantly related to anxiety reduction as measured by form Y2 of the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y2). Emotion regulation, as measured by the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), was found not to mediate between working memory capacity gains and trait anxiety reduction.
conclusionWorking memory capacity gains and reductions in levels of trait anxiety were observed following emotional working memory training. The study may therefore be useful in informing interventions targeted at improving working memory capacity, and reducing levels of trait anxiety. Moreover, it proposes for future research to further look into the mediating role of emotion regulation via the development or utilization of more comprehensive measures of emotion regulation.
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