Effects of Working Memory Training on Anxiety Symptoms and Attention Control in Adolescents with High Levels of Trait Anxiety

Nazari, Zahra; Fazilat-Pour, Masoud; Nasab, S. M. Hossein Mousavi

doi:10.1080/07317107.2022.2079826

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“…For example, Zhao, Dang [ 43 ] found that WM training could effectively lower college students’ social anxiety levels over 20 days, in comparison with the control group. Sari, Koster [ 37 ] and Nazari, Fazilat-Pour [ 52 ] conducted studies on college students and adolescents, respectively, and found that WM training can significantly reduce trait anxiety levels. In a study by de Voogd, Wiers [ 30 ] of an eight-day intervention, anxiety and depression levels did not decline significantly in the training group in comparison with the control group.…”

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The effect of working memory training on test anxiety symptoms and attentional control in adolescents

Xu,

Wei

2024

BMC Psychol

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Objective The percentage of adolescents with test anxiety is increasing rapidly. Working memory (WM) training has been demonstrated to reduce anxiety levels and enhance attentional control in individuals. Therefore, we investigated whether adaptive dual n-back WM training could lower test anxiety level and improve attentional control in adolescents. Methods Forty adolescents were allocated to either adaptive dual n-back WM training (n = 21) or non-adaptive dual 1-back WM training (n = 19) for 10 days. The Test Anxiety Scale was applied to measure individuals’ test anxiety symptoms. The Attentional Control Scale (ACS), the flanker task, and the Go/Nogo task were used to measure attentional control. Results Compared with the control group, the training group reported significantly relief of test anxiety symptoms; however, there were no significant differences between the two groups in pre-to-post changes in ACS scores or performance on the flanker task and Go/Nogo task. Conclusion In sum, adaptive dual n-back WM training effectively reduced adolescents’ level of test anxiety but did not improve their attentional control.

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