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The Review of Anxiety and Working Memory

Authors
Kerong Huang1, *
1Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
*Corresponding author. Email: kerong.huang@kcl.ac.uk
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Kerong Huang
Available Online 29 November 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-13-8_8How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Test Anxiety; Social Anxiety; Working Memory; Relationship
Abstract

Anxiety is a serious global problem at present. A moderate level of anxiety can help individuals perform more adaptively, but persistently high levels of anxiety would impair individual physical and mental health. As a result, it is crucial to pay attention to anxiety. There are numerous studies on the association between anxiety and working memory, however, there is no consensus on this issue. The goal of this paper is to provide a summary of the existing findings concerning the interaction between working memory and two kinds of anxiety (test anxiety and social anxiety). The results showed that: 1) anxiety positively or negatively affected working memory; 2) anxiety and working memory interacted and interfered with each other; 3) working memory and anxiety were unrelated. Since the etiology of anxiety symptoms is often unknown, most studies still need to understand the underlying mechanisms of anxiety. These findings are important for further understanding the effect of anxiety on working memory.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Sport Science, Education and Social Development (SSESD 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 November 2022
ISBN
978-2-494069-13-8
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-13-8_8How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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