Annotated Citation Week 7

Hopko, D. R., Hunt, M. K., Armento, M. E. A. (2005). Attentional task aptitude and performance anxiety. International Journal of Stress Management, 12, 389-408.

This paper discusses arousal and anxiety and how it negatively affects performance on tasks such as test taking, stroop performance, and auditory tasks. It also discusses how univariate tests in some studies brought about strange results. In this study they focused the testing the same things as before but using a multivariate test rather than a univariate one. The findings show that certain types of anxiety related conditions play different roles on different types of conceptual tasks.

I though this study was appropriate because it deals with performance anxiety and I feel as though it would help make some sense of exactly what I want to look for in my study. Also, it is interesting to find that certain types of anxiety play specific roles in each type of task assigned.   

Mitte, K. (2005). Meta-analysis of cognitive-behavioral treatments for generalized anxiety disorder: A comparison with pharmacotherapy. Psychological Bulletin. 131, 785-795.

Calvo, M. G., Avero, P., Castillo, M. D., & Miguel-Tobal, J. J. (2003). Multidimensional anxiety and content-specificity effects in preferential processing of threat. European Psychologist, 8, 252-265.