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| Physiological indicators of stress and intellectual performance among anxious older adults | | Author(s) | Kimberly S Kelly, Bert Hayslip Jr, Heather L Servaty |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 23, no 5, July-Aug 1997 |
| Pages | pp 477-487 |
| Keywords | Stress ; Anxiety ; Cognitive processes ; Performance ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study examined the relationship between anxiety and cognitive performance in 27 older adults, selected for concerns about their intellectual functioning. They performed cognitive tasks to assess crystallised and fluid intellectual abilities, and completed questionnaires concerning their beliefs about their task performance specific to each ability, as well as general measures of self-efficacy, everyday cognitive failures, and concerns about illness and ageing. Cortisol was measured as an indicator of anxiety, and Epstein-Barr virus levels were assessed to determine non-specific physiological changes. Results indicate that in the self-selected 'anxious' sample, there was a significant negative correlation between cortisol and self-efficacy related to the most difficult measure of Gf. The only other significant (negative) correlation was between cortisol and generalised self-efficacy. EBV levels were not correlated with any performance or self-efficacy measures. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971030244 A |
| Classmark | QNH: ENP: DA: 5H: 49: 7T |
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